This is extremely silly, good natured, superficial stuff; a lot depends on whether you take to Bill and Ted's unique lingo (which contorts surfers' expressions) and their gormless behaviour.
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06/24/06
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989)
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Reviews Counted:32
Fresh:26
Rotten:6
Average Rating:6.3/10
Consensus: Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter are just charming, goofy, and silly enough to make this fluffy time-travel Adventure work.
Runtime: 90 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Two brain-dead California teenagers, with a combined vocabulary of approximately 75 words, travel back in time to corral various historical figures for a class presentation that just might keep the... [More]
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, George Carlin, Robert V. Barron
Director: Stephen Herek
Reviews for Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
Top CriticAn insanely effective no-brainer of a film, sparkling with a simple charm and energy rarely witnessed this side of illegal substances.
07/25/01
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06/27/08
More than anything, the picture looks paltry and undernourished. Even the warts on Lincoln's face look slapped on.
01/01/00
Whether you enjoy this piece of fluff in the Wayne's World mould (although not as funny) depends on whether you can stomach early 1990s American teenager subculture and its lingo.
01/01/00
No review available.
09/12/02
Wow, man, and to think Keanu Reeves started here. Already outdated comedy.
03/02/08
A painfully inept comedy.
05/20/03
Top CriticBill and Ted has an intangibly charming goofiness about it that is somehow endearing.
05/30/07
Top CriticReeves, with his beguilingly blank face and loose-limbed, happy-go-lucky physical vocabulary, and Winter, with his golden curls, gleefully good vibes and 'bodacious' vocabulary, propel this adventure as long as they can.
05/30/07
Top CriticNo review available.
07/26/02
Airheaded but funny movie. I actually liked "Bogus Journey" better, though.
03/18/03
The penultimate film about teen apathy in the 1980s
11/17/01
No review available.
10/04/05
No review available.
05/26/03
...a silly, broad comedy that has justifiably endured over the years.
07/16/05
No review available.
08/01/05
Good goofy fun. This film was made for Keanu Reeves.
08/09/02
No review available.
01/08/04
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