Ten years later, not really dated, still full of laughs!!

Rating: 7/10 (17 April 2001)

On one hand, it's all been done before (see: Excellent Adventure, Bill and Ted's) but on the other hand, great writing by Mike Myers and hilarious skit acting by both Myers and Dana Carvey make this film really funny. It has its ups and downs, but in the end it's a tongue-in-cheek, often satirical laugh-fest. And it gets done without a need for overly juvenile humour (although it is there;)
What really bothers me is Tia Carrere's acting. What bothers me more is Tia Carrere's (?) singing (if it's her) And Rob Lowe's wooden acting doesn't help much either. If Myers and Carvey weren't so good, Carrere and Lowe would bring this film much deeper into comedy hell.
This film spawned classic scenes; the Bohemian Rhapsody scene, the hockey scene, the studio' show scene (great product placement;). But overall it lacks something that even humour can't pull past. It simply works better in skit-form, one thing that Bill and Ted's definitely surpasses Wayne and Garth in is that it flowed more smoothly from beginning to end without lapses. Still, there are enough laughs to keep this one out of the gutter, and most of the other SNL based movies can't claim that (most shouldn't even *exist*)
Look for great cameos by Meat Loaf, Alice Cooper, Donna Dixon, Ed Al Bundy' O'Neil, Blackhawks great Stan Mikita and Ione Skye, plus a hilarious and different role from starlet Lara Flynn Boyle.
Overall: well worth watching, and has so far stood the test of time. An easy 7/10.