Rating: 
Summary: Its about time! (Literally)
Review: Finally, one of THE funniest movies ever made is coming to DVD. This is one of the movies that helped launch the career of now mega-star Keanu Reeves, and spawned a bunch of copy-cat movies like "Wayne's World" and "Dude, Where's MY Car?", but this was the original DUDE movie! Dim-witted high school friends Bill & Ted don't realize they are destined to be the great ones who will change the course of the world through their music, bringing about world peace (as well as clean air, and more excellent water slides than any other planet we communicate with!) Right now, they have to pass history! With help from cool futuristic dude Rufus and a time-travelling phone booth, they travel back in time to assemble the greatest historical figures for the greatest history report of all time! Its a hilarious romp through the past and present (and you may learn a thing or 2). Wyld Stallyns rules!
Rating:
Summary: A refreshing look at history...
Review: Bill & Ted, 2 surfer dudes whose greatest dream is forming a band and playing with Eddie Van Halen (but that would happen only when they have some decent instruments, a triumphant video and they'd finally learn how to play), are in trouble: they're about to fail their history report, and Ted's dad would send him to an Alaskan military school. Since their brains aren't any better than their guitar playing, they need help - and soon. And it's there in the form of special agent Rufus from the future and his time traveling phone booth. Apparently, their music affected the world in such a fundemental way, our future is based on it and their 2 mottos: 'Be excellent to each other' and 'party on dudes', not to mention their air guitars...Bill and Tedtravel through time, pick historical figures, then set them loose in town to form an opinion on 1988. This leads to many funny situations (even though they're very childish ones) This is a funny movie, and vert reccomended to people who'd like light entertainment...
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Summary: FUNNIEST MOVIE MADE IN THE 1980'S
Review: I LOVE THESE CRAZY GUYS, THEIR (PIPED IN) AIR GUITARS AND THE FUTURISTIC RELIGION THEY UNWITTINGLY ESTABLISH AS A RESULT OF THE MUSIC OF THEIR (VERY UNTALENTED) BAND-- THE WYLD STALLYNS!!! IT REALLY DOESN'T GET ANY FUNNIER THAN THIS! UNDER PRESSURE OF FAILING HISTORY CLASS, AND HAVING TO ATTEND A MILITARY ACADEMY, BILL AND TED RUN HEADLONG INTO A GUARDIAN ANGEL FROM THE FUTURE, WHILE HANGING OUT AT THE LOCAL CIRCLE K, TRYING TO DECIDE HOW TO PASS THEIR CLASS. FROM THERE, THEY GO ON A MISSION IN A TIME-TRAVELING TELEPHONE BOOTH, WHICH TAKES THEM ALL THROUGH AN AMAZING VARIETY OF "HISTORICAL" TIMES AND PLACES, MEETING UP WITH SOME AWESOME "MEDIEVAL BABES" ALONG THE WAY. (THE "HISTORICAL BABES" END UP BECOMING THE NEXT TWO MEMBERS OF THE BAND WYLD STALLYNS IN THE END!!! HAHAHHA) ON THEIR EXCELLENT ADVENTURE, THEY PICK UP NAPOLEAN, JOAN OF ARC, SOCRATES (THEY PRONOUCE IT "SO-KRATES"), BEETHOVEN, BILLY THE KID AND A FEW OTHER HILARIOUSLY UNSTUNNED HISTORICAL FIGURES, ALL OF WHOM TAKE THE JOURNEY AS THOUGH IT WAS NOTHING TOO OUT OF THE ORDINARY. (THIS, IN ITSELF, IS FUNNY!) I WON'T GIVE AWAY THE ENDING, WHICH IS VERY FUN AND MAKES FOR A GREAT SHOW FOR BILL AND TED'S FELLOW-STUDENTS AND TEACHERS, WITH ALL OF THE HISTORICAL CHARACTERS ACTING OUT THEIR PARTS IN AN
"A-WINNING" SCHOOL PRESENTATION. BUT THE REAL FUNNY PART IS THE ADVENTURE ITSELF!!! GOTTA SEEE THIS ONE!!!
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Summary: Profound in a weird way
Review: On one level, this is one of the silliest movies of all time. The humor is juvenile, and the teenage protagonists *seem* almost completely vacant-minded, their only goal to to start a great rock band, despite their complete inability to play their instruments. They end up on the most hilarious journey through time imaginable, with their 1990's San Dimas, CA sensibilities encountering such historic figures as "So-krates," "Joan of Arc," and Sigmund "Frood," all of whom end up wreaking havoc in a So. Calif. shopping mall. Bill and Ted are endearingly mindless, driven by hormones, and Ted remains Keanu Reeves's best role. The film has some of the funniest one-liners you'll want to add to your collection of quotations suitable to many daily occasions, and somehow there's a sweetness, innocence, and weird profundity to the whole adventure. It's also a multigenerational classic. I'm in my 40's, and my teenage children have been fans since elementary school as well and remain so. It's one of those films that whenever I mention it in a college classroom instantly elicits nods, smiles, and complicit laughs.
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Summary: Dude!
Review: Although it seems to be geared to the general teenage public, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure is fun for almost the whole family.
I wouldn't exactly call Bill and Ted dorky, although they do look the part. They're just stupid. Bill has a few brains cells but Ted, I fear, doesn't have much hope. But they certainly are funny, in a dorky, brainless, gotta-be-a-teenager-sorta-thing way.
Bill(Alex Winter) and Ted(Keanu Reeves) are two teenagers who are trying to start a 'most excellent' band, when they really don't know how to play, and to keep from failing their history report.
Because their passing of this report is vital to the future world, as excellent as we know it, Rufus(George Carlin) has been sent to help them. With the help of Rufus and a time-traveling phone booth, Bill and Ted set out to find 'personages of historical significance' to pass their history report. A most excellent adventure for Bill, Ted and all who watch this movie.
I rated this movie with five stars but I wish that they would have done away with a few parts. But all in all I thought it was a Most Excellent movie that I could watch over and over again. My personal rating is a 10 out of 10. Definately worth seeing.
Rating:
Summary: An Excellent Adventure!
Review: First, start with picture-perfect San Dimas, California, in the late 1980's. Next, add a couple of spacey yet lovable dudes and a time-traveling phone booth, and you have one of the greatest and funniest high school flicks of all time. "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure", starring Alex Winters, an early Keanu Reeves, and George Carlin, follows the story of bodacious Bill and Ted, who dream of music stardom through their rock band, Wyld Stallyons. Life is sweet, until they are faced with flunking their history class, thus losing each other (plus the Wyld Stallyons) forever. All hope is presumed lost, until the boys recieve a message of help from the future: in the form of a rusty phonebooth and Rufus (Carlin), both who offer them the chance of a lifetime: travel through history to encounter prominent figures, such as Napoleon, Joan of Arc, and Socrates, and bring them back to present day San Dimas to help them pass their report. With less than a day, Bill and Ted set off through time, with hilarious results, encountering famous presidents, world leaders, and yes, "royal ugly dudes". Performance wise, each character brings a different quality into the mix. Winters, with his priceless facial expressions, and overall charisma, and a be-speckled Carlin with a mysterious, wise approach add a great deal to the film. However, my favorite in this flick is Keanu Reeves. With perfectly shredded clothing and limited brain capacity, his reactions, character overall (that gorgeously tousled hair!) and great one liners ("Bill...strange things are afoot at the Circle K..."), he makes this movie the instant classic it has become. Hey, Bill and Ted, Party on, dudes! *air guitar*
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Summary: Misadventures In Time & Space
Review: * BILL AND TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE (B&TXA) is a low-budget,
derivative, silly film that shamelessly panders to its teen-age target
audience; it represents nothing new in film-making; and is blatantly
commercial. I really liked it. The plot is simple enough. Bill (Alex Winter) and Ted (Keanu Reaves)
are two California kids who want to become famous rock stars. There's
only one problem: they can't play their instruments. Well, actually,
there's two problems: they're both complete boneheads, and their
hardnosed history teacher tells them that if they *don't* pass their
oral history report, they *will* flunk out of school. This oral
report involves imagining what historical personages would've thought
of the present day and the local environment. Not too demanding, but
it's still above the ability of these two, and if they flunk, Ted's
sourpuss dad intends to send him off to a military academy in Alaska,
separating the two friends, probably forever. Fortunately, the society of Earth 700 years from now has a special
interest in them, and an agent (George Carlin) is sent back in a time
machine (shaped like a phone booth -- a normal one, not an
old-fashioned British police box) to help out. So Bill and Ted have
in their hands the best possible tool for conducting hands-on
historical research. This sounds silly, and it is, and all the unkind things I said above
about this movie are true. That leads to the question: What saves B&TXA? Simple enough: Bill and Ted. These two guys don't look like
they have the collective mental energy to make a nightlight glow.
They don't actually have to *do* anything to be funny. You laugh at
them even if they're just *standing* there. Though when push comes to shove, it turns out they can be quite
resourceful. Like a lot of teenagers, they just need to get
motivated. It's hard not to like them, since they're about as
good-natured kids as you're likely to find. Bill has the initiative,
willing to take risks without hesitation because he doesn't have a
clue of what he's getting into. Ted is a born romantic, a sweet-faced
kid who all the girls think is really cute. Any time he sees a
good-looking girl his heart leaps into his throat and stars flicker in
his eyes. The story, like I said, is silly, but silliness is hardly a critical
term when applied to a comedy -- and it does have its moments, such as
Napoleon at the water slides, and Genghis Kahn ... well, I won't say
any more. It certainly does pander to teenagers: nearly all the
adults are creeps or morons, and the kids turn the tables on them in
the end -- but it also made me feel wistful. I didn't have fun being
a teenager and this film suggests to me in its own bizarre way that it
could've been more fun than it was. The only thing I can seriously
say against B&TXA was that by the time it was over I was glad I didn't
have to listen to "PARTY ON, DUDE!" and "EXCELLENT!" one more time. BILL AND TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE isn't the sort of thing that would
win awards, in fact nobody in their right mind would recommend it for
one. Some movies are like expensive dinners; others are like Big
Macs. But as Big Macs go, BILL AND TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE tastes
good. Oh, yeah, the usual cautions: No noticeable bad language, overt
sexual activity, or graphic violence (unless you are the sort of
person who feels that the Three Stooges are a bad influence on kids).
And definitely, absolutely not for people who are into serious cinema.
[Minor update of review from 1989 -- GVG]
Rating:
Summary: A refreshing look at history...
Review: Bill & Ted, 2 surfer dudes whose greatest dream is forming a band and playing with Eddie Van Halen (but that would happen only when they have some decent instruments, a triumphant video and they'd finally learn how to play), are in trouble: they're about to fail their history report, and Ted's dad would send him to an Alaskan military school. Since their brains aren't any better than their guitar playing, they need help - and soon. And it's there in the form of special agent Rufus from the future and his time traveling phone booth. Apparently, their music affected the world in such a fundemental way, our future is based on it and their 2 mottos: 'Be excellent to each other' and 'party on dudes', not to mention their air guitars... Bill and Tedtravel through time, pick historical figures, then set them loose in town to form an opinion on 1988. This leads to many funny situations (even though they're very childish ones) This is a funny movie, and vert reccomended to people who'd like light entertainment...
Rating:
Summary: Its about time! (Literally)
Review: Finally, one of THE funniest movies ever made is coming to DVD. This is one of the movies that helped launch the career of now mega-star Keanu Reeves, and spawned a bunch of copy-cat movies like "Wayne's World" and "Dude, Where's MY Car?", but this was the original DUDE movie! Dim-witted high school friends Bill & Ted don't realize they are destined to be the great ones who will change the course of the world through their music, bringing about world peace (as well as clean air, and more excellent water slides than any other planet we communicate with!) Right now, they have to pass history! With help from cool futuristic dude Rufus and a time-travelling phone booth, they travel back in time to assemble the greatest historical figures for the greatest history report of all time! Its a hilarious romp through the past and present (and you may learn a thing or 2). Wyld Stallyns rules!
Rating: 
Summary: Good!
Review: Bill & Ted's's Excellent Adventure is a funny movie that is enjoyable to watch and it was just a really cute movie and reminds me of other good time-travel movies like Time Bandits. Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter were really good and I also liked George Carlin and I recommend this movie.
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