What Is It ?

Rating: 7/10 (10 May 2002)

I only like this movie for the time traveling aspects, and that's about it. In all, it's not a bad movie, but it's not a good one. It's not a teen movie, but it's not a fantasy. Two low-achievers are given the assignment to save the future. The reason is extremely far-fetched; it alleges that their music plays a factor to world peace. If that was the case, I can name twenty other more talented singers, vocalists and entertainers with a lot more brains and talent who honed their craft by hard work who are far more eligible. The boys will fail if they don't turn in a history assignment which just so happens to be set up for them to be able to yank historical personages from the past. Isn't it likely they were more likely to fail ? How could this so-called future have existed to send them a time machine to pass when it they were most likely to fail the test ? I think someone in that future rewrote their history to depend on the two idiots. The other facts about time travel are pretty close when it comes to being able to travel both a few minutes forward and backward, but there are historical contradictions a plenty on the characters, most obviously is the t-shirt tan on Socrates. Anyone from Before Christ would be a lot more tanned ! The actors are matched up solely on appearance to the roles they play and the script depicts them well, but it is less kind to Bill and Ted themselves. George Carlin is the only character to watch in this, but he has few scenes as a would-be Obi Wan to Bill and Ted, two characters sharing a brain - and both of them thinking the other has it.