The Stuff in the Middle of a Twinkie

Rating: Null/10 (29 November 2005)

Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure is the sort of silly fun with a long shelf-life that will have you grinning throughout the movie. This gentle but hip story of two goofy kids who get involved in an intersection of time travel and guitar riffs is by no means great art, nor is it a completely accurate time encapsulation of the late 1980's. It is fun and funny with only a few bad words and sexual innuendo ("Shut up, Ted!) thrown in to give it a PG.
BTEA works well because of its deft performances, its tight plotting, and the fact that it is about as consequential as the tasty glop in the middle of a Twinkie. Come to think of it, because of its strengths, this movie will probably be putting smiles on viewer's faces right about the time a 1989 Twinkie finally starts to go bad.