Richard Rides w/the Wyld Stallyns (again)

Rating: Null/10 (5 October 2001)

"Hi. Welcome to the Future --- San Dimas, California, 2688."

I remember so well hearing those words for the very first time. Bill S. Preston, Esq. and Ted (Theodore) Logan were, and probably still are, two of my all-time favorite eccentrics. In the intervening years since we saw Bill and Ted last, the Multiverse has changed, and greater powers than ours --- and, most likely, theirs --- have walked the Earth. But when all is said and done, I think you can't get any better than that first Excellent Adventure of the Wyld Stallyns!
For those of you who've forgotten, the idea is that some 700 years in the Future, the Stallyns' music will be worshipped as the equivalent of the Holy Grail. As Rufus (George Carlin) explains in the Prelude, his mission is to keep our dimwitted heroes along the 'correct' path, lest "the basis of our society" be severly compromised. Read, a rift in the space-time continuum might ruin everything. And so, for the next 86 or so minutes, we follow Bill and Ted --- and eight of History's biggest mega-legends --- on a spectacular journey across time and space..... culminating in the immortal "1988 WORLD TOUR!"
Being excellent to each other is, I suppose, something we've forgotten of late --- especially after the events of September 11th. Will the Planet in general party on? Who knows? One thing's for sure: remembering Bill and Ted and that first Excellent Adventure will work wonders for this ancient old Wizard. I wonder what the Stallyns will be up to 700 years from now............