Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020)
Directed by Dean Parisot
Yet to fulfill their rock and roll destiny, the stakes are higher than ever for the now middle-aged Bill and Ted who set out on a new adventure when a visitor from the future warns them that only their song can save life as we know it.
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More time travel: It’s The Seventh Seal crossed with Naked Gun 33⅓ ; your boys are Step Brothers from other mothers.
The 1991 sequel, Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey, is best known for an extended parody of Bergman's The Seventh Seal, in which William Sadler played Death.
A couple of years later, “Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey” arrived but instead of merely rehashing the time travel jokes from the first film, it went off in wild new directions—at one point becoming an inspired parody of Ingmar Bergman’s “The Seventh Seal” as the two encounter the Grim Reaper (William Sadler) and challenge him to games like Battleship and Twister instead of chess—and wound up as a much funnier film than the first one.
Before Seth Rogen, Wayne’s World and even Bart Simpson, these two underachievers just wanted to have fun.
And as it happens, the night after the first movie’s premiere in February 1989, Saturday Night Live introduced a new pair of similarly dimwitted characters: Dana Carvey and Mike Myers as Wayne and Garth, hosts of the vapid public access show Wayne’s World .
The original Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, from 1989, was a key part of the sort of dude humor that was prevalent at the time, along with the "Wayne's World" SNL sketches that were later adapted into their own movies.
I was never a huge fan of either of the films and preferred the somewhat similar shenanigans of Mike Myers and Dana Carvey in the "Wayne's World" flicks.
As directed by Stephen Herek, the movie is a masterful atemporal combination of 1985’s Pee-wee’s Big Adventure (outlandish whimsy), 1995’s Clueless (lovable SoCal dimwittery), 1982’s Fast Times at Ridgemont High (Bill and Ted are proudly devolved sons of Spicoli), and 2019’s third season of Stranger Things (big mall energy).
It's taken 29 years, but Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter have finally made a threequel to their much-loved hits, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989) and Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991).
More frustrating, the overstuffed chain of events harkens closer to the weird 1991 sequel, Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey , than the spirited 1989 original, Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure .
It’s harder than ever to believe in the idyllic land of harmony foretold in Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure.
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The overlapping time loops and concentric logic holes that ensue would challenge even Bruce Willis’ character in Looper to illustrate them with diner straws.
I mean this with minimal disrespect to the Terminator franchise, Back to the Future , Looper , The Time Traveler’s Wife , Avengers: Endgame , or (one presumes) Tenet .
More recently there’s been No Strings Attached and Friends With Benefits , and Olympus Has Fallen and White House Down .
More recently there’s been No Strings Attached and Friends With Benefits , and Olympus Has Fallen and White House Down .