This movie is so easy to enjoy.

Rating: Null/10 (15 July 2000)

There are two streams of excellence that make this film a wonder. Reeves and Winter manage to sustain Bill and Ted's utterly oblivious optimism and cheerfulness throughout the film. And the caricatures of the historical figures actually show more knowledge of history than film pretends to know. As is often the case, this light-weight, fun movie required a great deal of knowledge and subtlety to write, but all this heavy talent had to be absolutely invisible for the movie to succeed. Take the scene when Socrates and Billy the Kid are trying to pick a couple of gals in a mall when Sigmund Freud shows up holding a corn dog and completely blows their chances. It's a brief, lovely mockery of all things Freudian, but you don't need to know that. It's enough simply to see geeky Sigmund in action. This a fine little movie that is very easy to enjoy.