Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

Delightfull time-travel comedy.

Also, it is almost squeaky clean. It's rated PG, but without about four seconds of toilet humor and five seconds of bra ogling, Bill and Ted might have faced an insurmountable challenge: the dreaded G rating. [20 Feb 1989, p.D06]

An insanely effective no-brainer of a film, sparkling with a simple charm and energy rarely witnessed this side of illegal substances.

Bill and Ted differ from Spiccoli, their “stoner” predecessor, only in that there are no drug references here to account for their allegedly jocular lack of ambition or interest in education or self-improvement.

Has an intangibly charming goofiness about it that is somehow endearing: here is a movie about teenagers that contains no excessive profanity, no drug references, and no explicit sexual activity.

Painfully dumb. [21 Feb 1989, p.5D]

Wow, dudes. Pu-trid. (1989 February 20, p.4D)

Once again the critics are wrong. A complete fastastic movie! Great casting - especially the daughters.

Reeves and Winter have great chemistry that really elevates the movie, Carlin is fantastic as always despite his small role. It's comedic at times but doesn't really do much to take advantage of the premise (which really kind of a knock-off of Doctor Who/Back To The Future). It's a decent movie, I could totally get why it has a cult following but I don't think it's as good as they make it out to be.

A mixed adventure. The obvious problem with the movie today is that it is very dated from the visual effects to the almost-nineties music (this is 1989). It's still funny, though, and Reeves and Winter are great in it.

Since the very beginnings of film, "buddy" comedies have always been very popular. From Laurel & Hardy and Abbott & Costello to Cheech & Chong and Harold & Kumar, audiences love to see what kind of trouble these guys can get into. After 25 years and with talks of a second sequel on the way, I finally decided to see what Bill & Ted were all about. I was always scared off by the PG rating, I mean George Carlin in a PG rated film, come on! The first part of the film was pretty much what I expected it to be, as the two failing history dudes, fly around the world looking for historical figures. Things turn from ordinary to extraordinary when the group finally returns to 1989 and decide to go the mall of all places. This is where the film really finds itself and becomes more than just your typical buddy story. The interactions with people and the reactions on both sides are absolutely priceless and is what changed my opinion of this film. Keanu Reeves stars in one of his earliest roles, and manages to show that at some point in his life, he did have a personality and could tell a joke. His partner Alex Winter didn't really do much before or since, and while he wasn't great, he did have chemistry with Reeves, which always helps a movie progress. Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure wasn't so excellent, but it was different and manages to hold your attention. I still think this film would have been much better if it were R rated and a lot more edgy, but for what it was, it wasn't bad at all.

Worst movie I ever watch to this date. Acting was so bad specially Keanu Reaves. I really don't understand what is funny about mocking with great historical figures. Genghis Khan cleaning toilet. Are you kidding me?