Bill Ted's Excellent Adventure | | Cast : | Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter | | Director : | Stephen Herek | | Studio : | Mgm/Ua Studios | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen | | Released Date : | February 17, 1989 | | DVD Released Date : | December 04, 2001 | | Language : | French (Subtitled), English (Dubbed), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | July 08, 2005 | | Summary | Surprisingly Good | Content
 | This is my favorite Keanu Reeves movie. It's pretty fun. As far as I can tell, it's consistent with what's known about time travel theory too, AND it has good continuity. Surprising for a movie featuring idiot teenagers as protagonists.
The pacing of the movie is pretty good. I can't recall too many slow parts. I guess the only drawback to the film is the goofy dialogue and the horrid transitions the historical figures make after meeting Bill and Ted. But, since the film markets to a not-so-brainy teenage audience, you have to expect this. You don't go and see a Bill and Ted movie expecting it to be in the running for an Oscar.
A good movie. I'll even say it's a good family film. Nothing educational, but fun to watch. It's better than you'd think. |
| Rating | | | Date | May 16, 2005 | | Summary | head for the nearest military academy if you don't have it! | Content
| Bill& Ted is a funny movie. it's funny when Bill keeps calling his mom "Missy" instead of mom. if they don't pass History, Ted will end up at an Alaskan Military School, however Rufus saves the day, and eventually they get their babes, the princesses that they met in 15th century England. this movie is hilarious.either get it, or head to the nearest military school. |
| Rating | | | Date | March 26, 2005 | | Summary | EXCELLENT!!!! | Content
| Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure is a charming gem that will have you in stitches and smiling for days. Keanu Reeves as Ted and Alex Winter as Bill play two high school students who want to be in a rock band called "Wyld Stalyons." They do not even know how to play the guitar. Bill and Ted are SO not digging History. Their teacher gives them an ultimatum: get an A+ on their final oral report in order to pass the class. If they don't pass History, they will flunk out of school, and Ted's dad will send Ted to military school - in Alaska. Whoa! BOGUS!!
So our heroes set out to do a good report, asking people in the Circle K parking lot about when the Mongols ruled China, and so forth. Luckily, a strange futuristic dude named Rufus (George Carlin) arrives in a phone booth to take them on the strangest ride of their lives. They go to various periods in time, kidnapping historical figures to get them to speak at their report. Unfortunately, the historical figures can not sit put and wreak havoc in a mall.
Nothing beats seeing Napoleon pushing kids out of the way to get on the water slide, or seeing Sigmund Freud introduced by Ted as "Dennis Frood." This movie is a total classic and one of my favorites. |
| Rating | | | Date | January 24, 2005 | | Summary | "Something strange is afoot at the Circle K." | Content
| !Heather's teenage son!
This movie was so stupid and fun. The plot follows two air-head California teenage boys who are failing their History class. To pass, they have to get an A+ on their oral History report. If Ted doesn't pass, he goes to military school! While studying at Circle K, a time-machine/phone booth combination appears infront of them. A man named Rufus comes out and tells them they must go through history to pass this report and the future Bill & Teds tell them that they will have a most excellent adventure! Well, they were right. They had a most excellent adventure with hillarious results.
Keanu Reeves is definately better at doing stuff like this than doing a serious role. He needs to stop with that Matrix-type stuff and go back to comedy. I mean, he just sucks as a serious actor but I enjoyed him quite a bit in this film. The other actor was also great and a little bit better. George Carlin plays Rufus, which is awesome because George Carlin is one of the funniest men alive. The comedy in this film is sooo California that you have to live on the west coast or atleast have been there to get all of the humor in this film. Overall, this and it's sequel are both incredibly entertaining comedies that you must buy. 4/5 |
| Rating | | | Date | January 24, 2005 | | Summary | Excellent! | Content
| There is a lot of good-spirited innocence and an undermining educational value in BILL & TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE. Sort of a "Wayne's World" meets "Back to the Future". Just before the dawn of Beavis & Butthead, and Wayne & Garth, Bill & Ted were the most excellent dynamic duo of their day. Also, instead of a Delorean for time travel machine, there is a simple phone booth. Two metal heads, Bill & Ted (Keanu Reeves & Alex Winter) are supposedly the key figures for a utopian distant future because their band's (The Wylde Stallions) music will inspire generations for peace and harmony. A time traveller from that future, Rufus (played most-excellent by George Carlin) goes to Bill & Ted's era to make help them along to make sure the future is ensured. This means the duo must pass a certain high school history assignment that is to be presented at a high school assembly. Rufus/Carlin gives them the phone booth/time machine to gather historical figures from the past. These figures are to give their views of the modern world, specifically the city of San Diemas where Bill & Ted reside. The historical figures are unique and as varied from Billy the Kid, Socrates, Joan of Arc, Freud, Napolean, Beethoven, Genghis Khan, and Abraham Lincoln. The writers don't dwell on the historical figures being overwelmed by their time travel trip but rather let the characters treat it as "matter-of-fact". It actually lifts the movie and helps the story along by letting the characters accept their "time travel kidnapping" with little or no hesitation. Along with the basic time travel pitfalls and twists and turns that are handled well, the film does not become bogged down or "bogus". It is very amusing and fun to watch. Good performances all around from the two leads, Carlin, the actors playing the historical figures, and the location shots of San Diemas, this is a most excellent adventure. |
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