{"id":55516,"date":"2020-08-28T02:39:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T23:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/bill-ted-face-the-music-review-not-so-excellent\/"},"modified":"2020-08-28T02:39:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T23:39:00","slug":"bill-ted-face-the-music-review-not-so-excellent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/bill-ted-face-the-music-review-not-so-excellent\/","title":{"rendered":"#\u2018Bill & Ted Face the Music\u2019 review: Not so excellent"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#\u2018Bill & Ted Face the Music\u2019 review: Not so excellent<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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August 27, 2020 |<\/span> 7:39pm <\/p>\n

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Running time: 88 minutes. Rated PG-13 (some language).\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

\n Since Keanu Reeves last played Ted in \u201cBill & Ted\u2019s Bogus Journey\u201d in 1991, we have watched him brutally kill hundreds of people.<\/p>\n

In the \u201cMatrix\u201d trilogy, his Neo was a Zen murder machine who could level whole cities with a little karate and a trenchcoat. Later, in \u201cJohn Wick Chapter 3: Parabellum,\u201d he borrowed a library book to fatally break a thug\u2019s neck. This actor has spilled swimming pools of (fake) blood.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why it\u2019s a stretch to buy Reeves, 55, again as an air-guitaring stoner in the new sequel \u201cBill & Ted Face the Music.\u201d When \u201cBill & Ted\u2019s Excellent Adventure\u201d made him a star 31 years ago, he was a high-spirited doofus with an infectious smile. Reeves has moved on, and now has about one-millionth of the enthusiasm that made him so much fun in this role before.<\/p>\n

This whole half-baked sequel is a forced exercise, willed into being by the so-called \u201cKeanussance\u201d \u2014 society\u2019s renewed love affair with Reeves. He\u2019s a nice guy and a decent actor, but he\u2019s made a lame movie. It\u2019ll let down even hardcore fans.<\/p>\n

Bill (Alex Winter) and Ted haven\u2019t aged a day \u2014 they\u2019ve aged 10,585 days. The Wyld Stallyns are now hopeless domestics, married to the 15th-century British princesses they brought home in \u201cExcellent Adventure,\u201d and each couple has a daughter who is just like her dad.<\/p>\n

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Samara Weaving, Brigette Lundy-Paine, Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter in a scene from \u201cBill & Ted Face the Music.\u201d<\/span>AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There is a lot of daddy-daughter stuff going on, probably to broaden the film\u2019s app<\/a>eal beyond adult dudes. The guys, who are now playing gigs in half-empty bars, are summoned to the future by Rufus\u2019 (the late George Carlin) kid Kelly (Kristen Schaal), where they\u2019re told a song they will write will save the universe. \u201cExcellent!\u201d we hope.<\/p>\n

The plot then rips off the original \u2014 which was thin to begin with \u2014 and makes it worse. The guys use the time-travel<\/a>ing phone booth to search for their song, while their daughters travel into the past to round up some luminaries to play it: Jimi Hendrix, Louis Armstrong, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, ancient Chinese flautist Ling Lun and, for good measure, Kid Cudi. None of them are funny.<\/p>\n

Two performances here do get some laughs, though. There\u2019s a menacing killer robot \u2014 sent to vaporize Bill and Ted \u2014 who we later learn has crippling anxiety and is named Dennis (Anthony Carrigan). And, of course, the return of the Grim Reaper, played by William Sadler, who relives his rock \u2018n\u2019 roll glory days. Their material is no wittier or inspired than anybody else\u2019s, but they do their jobs as actors and don\u2019t rely so much on nostalgia and mugging. It does no one any favors that director Dean Parisot can\u2019t set up a gag.<\/p>\n

But this series<\/a> lives and dies on Bill and Ted. You can still feel the crumbs of chemistry between Reeves and Winter, who is more believable in his part because he makes fewer major movies. But you can also sense their exhaustion and ambivalence.<\/p>\n

At the end of the movie, Bill and Ted pass the torch to their hard-rocking daughters, Thea (Samara Weaving) and Billie (Brigette Lundy-Paine). Instead, they should take that torch and set fire to this whole enterprise for good.\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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