Bill And Ted Face The Music was close to number one spot for my most anticipated movies of the year. I wasn't nerves coming into it but I was a little worried they would jumble up the characters. I must say, after I payed my twenty bucks for this film, I was quite pleased.
Bill And Ted Face The Music is about Bill (Alex Winter) and Ted's (Keanu Reeves) band going completely downhill and they still haven't made the song that will unite the world. Then, Kelly (Kirsten Schaal) comes from the future to bring Bill and Ted to the future to meet the almighty ones. Much to their surprise they go there to get ridiculed because they still need to make the song that will untie the world or else the world will collapse. Bill and Ted go to the future to where they have made the song to get it and go back to play it. While at the same time their daughters, Billie (Bridget Lundy-Paine) and Thea (Samara Weaving) find this out and want to help their dads. They go in the past to gather up many historical figures to help make a band that couldn't possibly sound bad.
Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure was one of my favorite films from the 80's. It was funny, clever, and also a bunch of fun to watch. If you really look deeper into that film you will find some problems but when ever I watch that picture I just try to enjoy myself. It is the perfect film to do that with. It had a fantastic feel that hasn't really been nailed in any of the sequels yet. Bill And Ted Face The Music is a sequel that does a good job of wrapping up the series, hopefully. I don't think Bill and Ted needs anymore sequels at all. This one did get pretty close to capturing the feel of the original but it didn't exactly hit it's mark. It was still funny but the original easily was more comical. Something that the sequels never did is capture their kid like nature. They would always talk about Disney World, Waterloo, and many more things kids would love to do and talk about. In Face The Music, they just made Bill And Ted dumb. Sure they are in the original but they were only not book smart. This movie made them incredibly dumb it started to get a little annoying. That was sort of disappointing with this film. Bill And Ted's Bogus Journey was also like that. It is pretty disappointing that this film did not feel the same that the first did in that nature.
The acting was as good as the first though. Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter still have most excellent chemistry. The two daughters also were surprisingly fun in this film. I came into this movie thinking they were going to be hard to watch but came out feeling good about the choice of adding their daughters in the picture. Coming into this film I knew it wouldn't be the same without George Carlin. He was a fantastic actor that I knew was going to change the mood of this film because of his absence. The picture defiantly was different because he wasn't in it but it still was a good film without him. William Sadler reprised his role as death. He was the only thing I like from Bogus Journey as did most people. In this movie he still feels the same. They really nailed the character of death in this picture. He gained most of my laughs. Elizabeth (Erin Hayes) and Joanna (Jayma Mays) do have a subplot but it never really needed to be there. That is why I didn't include it in the summary. It just didn't feel necessary to the film. The pair did an okay job. Acting in the whole film was just exceptional besides for Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, and William Saddler.
Now a big thing many people keep groaning about is the CGI. It wasn't a huge problem for me. The originals didn't have that great of CGI either so coming into this I wasn't expecting it to look like Titanic or Inception. It never really took away from the story for me. It did look really glossy and almost video game like but I was expecting this film not to look like it had a one hundred sixty million dollar budget.
Bill And Ted Face The Music is a film that has a different story from the originals which many films are lacking now but fails to capture the same mood and feel of the original film. Which Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure still proves to be the superb film.
Bill And Ted Face The Music is about Bill (Alex Winter) and Ted's (Keanu Reeves) band going completely downhill and they still haven't made the song that will unite the world. Then, Kelly (Kirsten Schaal) comes from the future to bring Bill and Ted to the future to meet the almighty ones. Much to their surprise they go there to get ridiculed because they still need to make the song that will untie the world or else the world will collapse. Bill and Ted go to the future to where they have made the song to get it and go back to play it. While at the same time their daughters, Billie (Bridget Lundy-Paine) and Thea (Samara Weaving) find this out and want to help their dads. They go in the past to gather up many historical figures to help make a band that couldn't possibly sound bad.
Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure was one of my favorite films from the 80's. It was funny, clever, and also a bunch of fun to watch. If you really look deeper into that film you will find some problems but when ever I watch that picture I just try to enjoy myself. It is the perfect film to do that with. It had a fantastic feel that hasn't really been nailed in any of the sequels yet. Bill And Ted Face The Music is a sequel that does a good job of wrapping up the series, hopefully. I don't think Bill and Ted needs anymore sequels at all. This one did get pretty close to capturing the feel of the original but it didn't exactly hit it's mark. It was still funny but the original easily was more comical. Something that the sequels never did is capture their kid like nature. They would always talk about Disney World, Waterloo, and many more things kids would love to do and talk about. In Face The Music, they just made Bill And Ted dumb. Sure they are in the original but they were only not book smart. This movie made them incredibly dumb it started to get a little annoying. That was sort of disappointing with this film. Bill And Ted's Bogus Journey was also like that. It is pretty disappointing that this film did not feel the same that the first did in that nature.
The acting was as good as the first though. Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter still have most excellent chemistry. The two daughters also were surprisingly fun in this film. I came into this movie thinking they were going to be hard to watch but came out feeling good about the choice of adding their daughters in the picture. Coming into this film I knew it wouldn't be the same without George Carlin. He was a fantastic actor that I knew was going to change the mood of this film because of his absence. The picture defiantly was different because he wasn't in it but it still was a good film without him. William Sadler reprised his role as death. He was the only thing I like from Bogus Journey as did most people. In this movie he still feels the same. They really nailed the character of death in this picture. He gained most of my laughs. Elizabeth (Erin Hayes) and Joanna (Jayma Mays) do have a subplot but it never really needed to be there. That is why I didn't include it in the summary. It just didn't feel necessary to the film. The pair did an okay job. Acting in the whole film was just exceptional besides for Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, and William Saddler.
Now a big thing many people keep groaning about is the CGI. It wasn't a huge problem for me. The originals didn't have that great of CGI either so coming into this I wasn't expecting it to look like Titanic or Inception. It never really took away from the story for me. It did look really glossy and almost video game like but I was expecting this film not to look like it had a one hundred sixty million dollar budget.
Bill And Ted Face The Music is a film that has a different story from the originals which many films are lacking now but fails to capture the same mood and feel of the original film. Which Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure still proves to be the superb film.