Bill & Ted Face the Music - Review Thread

A bit uneven, but there are several very funny parts.

Definitely in the minority here it seems. I was more so worried my wife might not like it because she's not as much of a fan of the first two as I am, but we both ended up disappointed. I really wanted and was trying to get into it, and I actually did start off enjoying it. The opening wedding, playing off the Missy stuff from the first two movies was a clever run on that gag. I don't like how they just dismissed the second movie's ending by saying "Oh, you know how we accomplished that thing last time? Well it turns out we actually didn't, so we still need to do that". Just felt lazy, but I was still for the most part on board and willing to give it a chance. Unfortunately I thought it went downhill and just kept going down not too long after they started time traveling. I really did not like the daughters or any of that B story at all. Their Bill & Ted impressions was just miss after miss for me the entire film.

I kinda hated nearly the entirety of all the rehashing, but just remixing, the story elements of both the first and second films. It's something a sequel would normally have been expected to do off the first movie, but it didn't in the Bill & Ted franchise, which is one of the main reasons why the second was so great. Bogus Journey was such a bizarre left turn from Excellent Adventure creatively, but yet it worked somehow. This movie just literally combined both the first and second movies to make a sort of odd remake into one, but I found all the story beats to be worse versions of them. The historical figure recruiting wasn't nearly as entertaining, the afterlife sequences were shoehorned in and didn't follow any of the "rules", and the ending that they already did and achieved in the second movie I found no where near as fulfilling or triumphant.

Like said, it appears the wife and I are definitely in the minority, and it completely bums me out because I really wish I could have enjoyed it as much as so many others appear to have. Sadly I was mostly disappointed. A shame, too, because I thought Winters and Reeves were pretty great back in the shoes of Bill and Ted, but they were possibly the only part of the movie we enjoyed. I thought the story, on the other hand, fell mostly flat.

*I liked the music that they were making in the beginning better than the end song.

Theaters for me. Definitely worth seeing in a room full of other Bill & Ted fans. The scene where had the room doubled over in laughter.

It's definitely sloppy and looks kinda bad, but I laughed a lot. At its best the movie is hilarious and even touching.

I'm leaning towards Fanible's side on this one which disappoints me. I really wish I liked this movie more than I did and while there are some laugh out loud parts it's also a rushed, uneven movie. The beginning got off to a good start and it was fun seeing Missy, Deacon and Bill's dad but things just went down from there. I think one thing they forgot was that the charm of Excellent Adventure was watching Bill and Ted interact with the historical characters then seeing them wreak havoc in the present day. Here they're just picked up and don't really do anything at all, they aren't a source of humor in any way. The movie finally picks up when they go back to hell and once again the Grim Reaper is the funniest character in the entire movie. Unfortunately we don't see him until there's about 30 minutes left and like everyone else he doesn't have much to do.

And when I first saw the trailer I was really hoping that the movie wouldn't go down the very, very, very easy and obvious path of 
but alas that's where they went, although there really wasn't much purpose to that either.

At the end of the day though, it's hard for me not to do what I think everyone else is doing which is give it extra points for nostalgia and for being one of the few bright spots in a crummy, desolate year and it's nice that the message of the movie is bringing the world together which is fitting since we're in an era where people couldn't be more apart. 

B- so says Doomsday

Based on this tweet thread, I think Kid Cudi may have actually lobbied to be in the film as a fan. Pretty cool.

bah humbug

This was better than expected. And yes pk I'm with you that these originals don't age well. I recently tried introducing the first two to the roomie after not having watched them in many years. She was confused and disinterested enough to completely give up after number 1.
Andd I didn't push it too hard. I don't believe she's seen the seventh seal or knows who ingmar is (we're getting to it... Slow and steady).

But I liked this third one enough for 2020 it ain't too bad.

7/10