Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

Rating: 8/10 (23 April 2007)

I remember seeing this as a kid, and when I saw it again, it was really good teen comedy from Stephen Herek (101 Dalmatians). William "Bill" S. Preston (Alex Winter) and Ted "Theodore" Logan (The Matrix's Keanu Reeves) are quite dumb rock guitar players making a band called Wyld Stallyns, but they won't graduate school if they fail their history presentation. But help comes in the form of new friend Rufus (comedian George Carlin, in Scary Movie 3 as architect). He lets them take a trip in his time travelling phone box in order to bring back historic figures and pass their test. As they travel through time they encounter many adventures, and bring back (accidently) Napoleon Bonapard (Terry Camilleri), Billy the Kid (Dan Shor), Greek Socrates (Tony Steedman), Dr. Sigmund Freud (Rod Loomis), Genghis Khan (Al Leong), Joan of Arc (Jane Wiedlin), Ledwig van Beethoven (Clifford David) and President Abraham Lincoln (Robet V. Barron). These people do get arrested by the police in the hilarious mall chase, but when Bill and Ted get them back they do pass their test, and have the happy ending with new guitars, and their princess babes. It was number 41 on The 50 Greatest Comedy Films. Very good!