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Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure Details

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In Stephen Herek's quirky comedy, 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 pair from failing history "most heinously." Bill S. Preston, Esquire (Alex Winter) and Ted ".. Read more

Starring Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, George Carlin, Clifford David
Director Stephen Herek
Genres Comedy

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Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure

In Stephen Herek's quirky comedy, 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 pair from failing history "most heinously." Bill S. Preston, Esquire (Alex Winter) and Ted "Theodore" Logan (Keanu Reeves, in one of his first starring roles) encounter Napoleon, Socrates, Billy the Kid, Sigmund Freud, Mozart, and others, who then journey forward in time with the duo in order to give the youth of California eye-witness accounts of the "awesome" pageant that is world history. Most excellent.

Starring Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, George Carlin, Clifford David, Rod Loomis, Terry Camilleri, Al Leong, Robert V. Barron, Dan Shor, Tony Steedman, Jane Wiedlin
Director Stephen Herek
Studio MOMENTUM PICTURES
Run time DVD: 1 hr 27 mins
Certificate DVD Certificate PG.gif
Collections 100 Eighties Greats
Genres Comedy
Language English
Dubbed German, Spanish
Subtitles Dutch, English, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish
Released DVD: 20 May 2002
Production year: 1988
Format DVD

  • Critics' reviews (5) of Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure

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  • 4 stars out of 5

    A nonstop giggle from start to finish, this beguiling grab-bag of time-travel clichés, hard-rock music and Valley-speaking cool dudes is a flawless, purpose-built junk movie. Director Stephen Herek's scattershot style perfectly complements the wayward cosmic capers, while Keanu Reeves (in his pre-sex symbol days) bravely takes on comedian Alex Winter for the “Most Witlessly Appealing Airhead” crown. Reeves resembles a moronic puppet with loose strings ambling amiably through this happy-go-lucky voyage into the short circuits of history. Engaging to the max.

    • Radio Times
    • Posted 29 Jan 2006

  • Bill (Winter) and Ted (Reeves) are cool dudes, but to their teacher, they're high school no-hopers. They fantasise... read more on Time Out

    • Time Out
    • Posted 04 Nov 2008

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  • 7 out of 8 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 5 stars

    Most underated film of the late 80's

    Keanu Reeves has left his humble beginnings and wants to forget about them, I say this movie is most excellent in everyway.

    -- you'd understand that intro if you watched both films--

    This film shows some very nice ideas and although a bit dated the overall charm this film has is still shining through to me now.

    I would say the sequel does have some better jokes in it and the Grim Reaper is very funny but the original has such a good scene in the shopping mall I can forgive it for his absence.

    Dudes, it is your most excellent honour to have the opportunity to rent this DVD, also its just a good laugh to see Keanu in a less serious role.

      • to56ny from LANCS
      • Posted 16 Mar 2004 21:58

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  • 7 out of 8 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 5 stars

    Most underated film of the late 80's

    Keanu Reeves has left his humble beginnings and wants to forget about them, I say this movie is most excellent in everyway.

    -- you'd understand that intro if you watched both films--

    This film shows some very nice ideas and although a bit dated the overall charm this film has is still shining through to me now.

    I would say the sequel does have some better jokes in it and the Grim Reaper is very funny but the original has such a good scene in the shopping mall I can forgive it for his absence.

    Dudes, it is your most excellent honour to have the opportunity to rent this DVD, also its just a good laugh to see Keanu in a less serious role.

      • to56ny from LANCS
      • Posted 16 Mar 2004 21:58

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    Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure

    Bill and Ted get wireless makeover

    • 13 Apr 2004

    A new game for Java-enabled phones based on the "Bill and Ted" films has been unveiled. According to the Cellular News website the game will be available in the last quarter of this year. Players control both Bill and Ted - each with his own unique abilities - as they explore 50 levels based in five different time periods. Kevin Holloway, director of publishing at Kuju Wireless, told Cellular News: "We're extremely pleased to be working with the popular and entertaining... Read more

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      In Stephen Herek's quirky comedy, 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 pair from failing history "most heinously." Bill S. Preston, ...