Be Excellent To Each Other, Please
I cried during the end of ‘Bill & Ted Face The Music’ and I’m okay admitting that
I was fifteen years old when Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure came out in 1989. It was the perfect age for a surprisingly sweet-hearted sci-fi comedy about two suburban high school dudes who want to be rock stars. Bill and Ted weren’t bright, but they were kind.
When a history class report threatens to separate these two best friends a time-traveling straight man played with cool amusement by legendary comedian and social critic George Carlin shows up and whisks the pair away on an adventure through time and history.
It’s an important mission because, as it turns out, Bill and Ted’s music inspires a future utopia on Earth. This is the movie’s most solid joke. It’s so solid, three movies have been built upon it. The survival of humankind depends on the kindness of headbangers.
Bill and Ted aren’t your typical American stoners getting high in parking lots or the lost and angry young men that dying empires produce by the platoon. No. They’re different. Bill and Ted are, simply, humble messiahs with a simple commandment: “Be excellent.”
As Ted, Keanu Reeves personifies Southern California surfer Zenness and Alex Winter’s Ted is a beatific mall rat. But…
