"They do get better".

Rating: 8/10 (20 March 2013)

Maybe because of nostalgia reasons, "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure" remains as one of my favourite bodacious comedies. It mixes creative time-travel shenanigans (love the cheesy computer effects) with enthusiastic slacker humour leaving no pretensions. Light-hearted and quite juvenile, but infectiously amusing with many quotable dialogues and very fitting performances by duo Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter as two slacker teenagers Bill and Ted who are more concerned forming their rock band, The Wyld Stallyns that they're flunking history big time. Now they must pass their final history report with an A+. As Ted's dad (played sternly by Hal Landon Jr.) threatens to send him to military school meaning the end of the band. However their guardian angel from the future, Rufus (the laid-back George Carlin) turns up with a time- travelling phone booth to help them ace their report by heading into the past to actually learn from history's influential figures. The support cast do shape up nicely in their iconic depictions; Terry Gamilleri (the pick of the lot as Napoleon), Dan Shor, Tony Steedman, Jane Wiedlin, Clifford David, Rober V. Barron, Al Leong and Rod Loomis. Also showing up is Bernie Casey as the history teacher. Its one-idea gimmick keeps in character and crafts out some enjoyable, goofy interactions of the iconic figures adapting to modern times. But in all it's the energetic chemistry of Reeves and Winter that make it a complete blast, duuuude.
"Gentlemen, I'm here to help you with your history report".