Excellent! Party on, dudes!

Rating: Null/10 (28 March 2002)

It seems like every critic out there compared "Dude, Where's My Car?" to "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure". "Bill..." was on last night, and at first I was apprehensive about seeing it since I didn't know if it would be that funny. Some reviewers had been degrading of it, after all.
But when I watched this 1989 movie, I loved it! About the only thing that it has in common with "Dude" is that the characters in both movies are dimwitted guys who speak in slang ("That was most excellent, dude!")
If you haven't seen "Bill", the following is a spoiler, although the ending is pretty obvious anyway:
Two dudes named Bill and Ted are gonna fail history. One of them will be sent to military school if he does. A guy comes in a phone booth and tells them they can go anywhere in time so they can meet people and pass. They travel through time and, of course, have many mishaps. They get Billy the Kid, Socrates ("Hey, Soe-crates, man!"), Freud ("Come on, Frood, dude"), Joan of Arc, Genghis Khan, Abraham Lincoln, Napoleon, and Beethoven to come to the future with them, and end up making a really great history presentation.
I found the movie hilarious, even though I usually don't like 80's movies - don't ask me why. The scenes with the "famous dudes" getting into trouble in the mall, with Freud ruining Billy the Kid and Socrates' chance at dates, Beethoven jamming, Joan of Arc teaching an exercise class and Genghis Khan destroying a sporting equipments store, was hilarious, as was Napoleon's EXCELLENT time at the water park.
Yes, the logistics of it would not work, but this is such a fun, feel-good movie that I didn't care. I give this movie a ***** out of a chance of five stars.
My favorite quotes?
Police Psychiatrist: I don't know why you claim to be Sigmund Freud.

Sigmund Freud: Why do you claim I'm not Sigmund Freud?

Police Psychiatrist: Why do you keep asking me these questions?

Sigmund Freud: Tell me about your mother.
As well as Abraham Lincoln's yell, "Be excellent to each other...and party on, dudes!"
After watching this movie, I couldn't stop saying "Excellent" and "Party on" for hours. :-)