If you weren't around in '89, when this became a surprise cultural phenomenon, well, you kinda had to be there. Looking back with critical eyes, it's a rather thin, desperately low-budget production that doesn't probe beyond the superficial layer and constantly winks and nudges the audience to ensure they know when to laugh. Yet, recognizing all that, I found myself wrapped up in its oddly naive warmth and charismatic magnetism. The jokes and gags are hammy and contrived, but I still snickered. The most memorable lines are clumsy and blunt, but I gladly recited them (surprising myself, as I hadn't seen the film in twenty-plus years). Bill and Ted themselves are the narrowest of stereotypes, basically the male equivalent of Frank Zappa's valley girls, yet I felt a rich tingle of satisfaction when they saved their academic careers. It's one of those films that defies logic, succeeding in spite of itself, and there's something of value in that.
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
1989
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Music / Romance / Sci-Fi
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
1989
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Music / Romance / Sci-Fi
Plot summary
Bill and Ted are high school buddies starting a band. They are also about to fail their history class—which means Ted would be sent to military school—but receive help from Rufus, a traveller from a future where their band is the foundation for a perfect society. With the use of Rufus' time machine, Bill and Ted travel to various points in history, returning with important figures to help them complete their final history presentation.
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It's one of those films that defies logic, succeeding in spite of itself, and there's something of value in that
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Two high school friends must pass their final history assignment or face the end of their dreams of forming a rock band.
I saw this movie aged nine on its original release and thoroughly enjoyed it. I think my mind was blown by how cool it made the subject of history seem and how harmlessly likeable the main protagonists were. Unlike me, my parents, who are Baby-Boomer generation, sat through it with me and did not appreciate Bill and Ted's dumb valleys, surfer dude, stoner-like personalities. Much to their distain I rewatched it more than once.
My mother said on one viewing 'How can you watch those two ignorant American boys?' To which I replied 'Can you tell me about Socrates and Lincoln?' Just as I suspected she could not tell me anymore than the film could. In fact she'd never even heard of Socrates or any other Greek philosophers. From that moment on she never uttered a word.
I watched it yesterday, aged forty with my four yearly daughter and appreciate how it might have come across to my mother at the time. However, the key to enjoying it as an adult is not taking it the slightest bit seriously. The dumbness of the main characters is part of what makes them so charming and the concept that a future of civilisation will be based on a Californian teenage sub-culture is a joke you just have to buy into and enjoy.
The basic plot structure is solid and it uses all its silliness in a clever way with the time-travel sci-fi moments. I love the little details like the stolen car-keys and Ted forgetting to wind his watch.
Some jokes hit the mark more now than they did for me as a child, particularly some of the innuendo involving Bill's stepmom and Bill's confirmation to Sigmund Freud of his 'minor oedipal complex'. Ironically, looking back at this time-travel themed movie is like taking a journey back to the 1980s with it's fashion, music and shopping-mall culture.
Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter are perfect as characters who are essentially two halves of the same brain. George Carlin is to coin a phrase 'excellent' as their guardian angel type friend from the future. Also, the visual effects during the time-travel sequences stand up reasonably well by today's standards.
I took a lot of entertainment from it as child and my daughter stuck with it till the end.
For me it is a 7.5/10 but I round upwards.
Perfection
It's a shame that the new movie is so mediocre considering this film is a 10/10 and Bogus Journey is almost the same.
This film has everything and stands the test of time perfectly.
Thanks for all the 2160p Blu-Rays OTTO!
Heinous is the act of those that would bash on the great Bill and Ted. Most audacious and bitter of them ,Ted. A most excellent perception of the human psyche, Bill. -Both play air guitar-
rewatching before watching the sequel...
Thanks OTTO !
Bogus journey please
Funny move... Where is Bogus Journey?
I first saw this movie in 2010-2011 i saw it because my brother bough Bill and Ted Bogus Journey, he wanted to buy bouth but they didnt have the first, i had to download it from yify, I believe its the first movie I've ever downloaded from this page or any other page, i remember watching the movie with my brother a lot, i don't know how many time, but we watched it until we knew every line from the movie, i highly recommend everyone to see this movie.
This movie is a LEGEND
Any chance of uploading "Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey" please
watched it when i was younger and loved it! I have to watch it again, thanks otto
and remember that the hills hasve eyes
guys please give it a try it is worth watching . . . . . . . . . ps u will enjoy it a lot and remember me throughout ur REMAINING life........