Champions of School Reform

Rating: 6/10 (11 February 2020)

"Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure" was a cry for school reform and I'm with it.
Bill S. Preston Esquire (Alex Winter) and Ted Theodore Logan (Keanu Reeves) were both failing history. On the surface it would look like that they would much rather be jamming on their guitars in the garage than go to school. OK, so that's true, but maybe there's a reason why. They can't tell you anything about any historical figure and I can't blame them. History is boring. It's nothing but names, dates, places and events and many of those things seem to have no relevance to a teenager (or to most adults for that matter).
If they fail history Ted is going to be shipped off to the military academy thereby breaking up their happy friendship as well as their potential band and jeopardize the fate of the future. Apparently, Bill and Ted are extremely significant figures in the future and their remaining together is crucial for that future. For that reason, a man named Rufus (George Carlin) is sent back to 1988 from 2688 in order to make sure Bill and Ted ace their history report they must give.
So, with a time travelling phone booth, Bill and Ted went from era to era collecting historical figures in order to give the most epic history report that could possibly be given. It's a comedy so don't worry about the butterfly effect upon the space-time continuum or the phone booth that holds people like a clown car. What's more important is that Bill and Ted learned something (only if they learned to speak without the surfer dude accent). They learned a lot more by traveling and experiencing than by sitting in a classroom. Bill and Ted are champions of school reform and that's why they were such important keys to the future, and that's why they got their own cartoon.