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Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989)
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Reviews Counted: 32
Fresh: 26
Rotten:6
Average Rating: 6.3/10
Consensus: Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter are just charming, goofy, and silly enough to make this fluffy time-travel Adventure work.
Runtime: 90 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Two brain-dead California teenagers, with a combined vocabulary of approximately 75 words, travel back in time to corral various historical figures for a class presentation that just might keep the... Two brain-dead California teenagers, with a combined vocabulary of approximately 75 words, travel back in time to corral various historical figures for a class presentation that just might keep the pair from failing history "most heinously." Napoleon, Socrates, Billy The Kid, Sigmund Freud and Mozart are among those who journey forward in time with the duo in order to give the youth of California eye-witness accounts of the "awesome" pageant that is world history. Most excellent. [More]
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, George Carlin, Robert V. Barron
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, George Carlin, Robert V. Barron, Terry Camilleri, Clifford David, Al Leong, Rod Loomis, Dan Shor, Tony Steedman, Jane Wiedlin, John "Fee" Waybill
Director: Stephen Herek
Director: Stephen Herek
Composer: David Newman
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Reviews for Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
Bill and Ted has an intangibly charming goofiness about it that is somehow endearing.
Reeves, with his beguilingly blank face and loose-limbed, happy-go-lucky physical vocabulary, and Winter, with his golden curls, gleefully good vibes and 'bodacious' vocabulary, propel this adventure as long as they can.
This is extremely silly, good natured, superficial stuff; a lot depends on whether you take to Bill and Ted's unique lingo (which contorts surfers' expressions) and their gormless behaviour.
...a silly, broad comedy that has justifiably endured over the years.
As these high school goofballs travel back in time to score some heavy dudes like Napoleon, Socrates, and Billy the Kid for their history presentation, they wrote themselves into the teen-movie pantheon.
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