Bill and Ted’s
Excellent Adventure 1989
- Director: Stephen Herek
- Based on the book: no
- Cast: Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, George Carlin and many others I don’t recognise
- Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
- Keanu Reeves – John Wick, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Lake House, A Scanner Darkly, The Matrix Trilogy, Sweet November, The Gift, Feeling Minnesota, Johnny Mnemonic, Speed, Much Ado about Nothing, My Own Private Idaho, Thumbsucker
- George Carlin – Dogma,
Prince of Tides
- Why? I liked it the first time
- Seen: Once before, now 15 September 2019
The year 2688. Rufus (Carlin) welcomes us
to this great and excellent future and tells us he must travel back in time to
help the two young heroes fulfil their mission to save the world and the
universe.
Bill (Winter) and Ted (Reeves) are two
very nerdy wannabe rock stars who can’t play their instruments and have zero
clue about anything.
Followers of this blog may have noted
that I’m a history teacher and so I take it very seriously that these boys are
failing their history class miserably. I applaud the teacher who gives them one
last chance in their final history project. If they flunk this, Ted’s father is
going to send him to military school in Alaska.
They definitely need help from the
future.
I love Keanu Reeves. Here he’s wonderfully
witless and so sweetly young. The whole film is just so juvenile, so silly, so
much laugh-out-loud fun. And wow, isn’t that Clarence Clemons? And extra star
for him.
But really – a phone box for time travel?
Isn’t that just a wee bit of Doctor Who plagiarism?
Oh well, they’ve done their thievery from
a brilliant series.
4
* of 5 (Hal can stretch it to 2 ½)
Remember,
one of my stars is for Clarence.
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