Bill and Ted Face the Music
Did we require a movie about a middle - aged William S. " Bill " Preston , Esq . and Theodore " Ted " Logan?Bill & Ted face up the Musicmakes a stout case the resolution is yes . Much like their fellow heterosexual life mate twosome Jay and Silent Bob in last year’sJay and Silent Bob Reboot , age is becoming of the charmingly dim - witted ( yet secretly heavy ) members of the Wyld Stallyns , a rock band purportedly specify to usher in a utopian companionship in the distant future . It ’s a lot for them to live up to , and the same could be aver forBill & Tedcreators / writers Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon , when it comes to their cause to craft a suitable third installment in their cult sci - fi clowning franchise . look the Musicis clearly a Passion of Christ project for the idea behindBill & Ted , and it result in a subsequence that coast by on its goofy humor and pump .
Since last we saw them , Bill ( Alex Winter ) and Ted ( Keanu Reeves ) have and have n’t changed much . Their mode good sense is a little more modern ( unhappily , no more harvest tops for Bill ) , they ’re now gallant dads to their respective 24 - year old daughters , Thea ( Samara Weaving ) and Billie ( Brigett Lundy - Paine ) , and are still struggling to publish a Song dynasty that will usher in an geological era of peace for humanity . speak of daughters : one twenty-four hours , Kelly ( Kristen Schaal ) , whose father was the sentence - traveling Rufus ( the recent George Carlin , appearing here via repurposed archived footage ) , show up to take Bill and Ted back to the 28th one C . There , her female parent , The Great Leader ( Holland Taylor ) , inform them they must compose their hit call in the next 78 minute or world itself will collapse . Either that or they have to die , so no pressure .
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In an age where most belated sequels are really subdued reboots design to repair an cerebral belongings , confront the Musicis refreshfully uninterested in setting up succeeding film . It ’s equally free of excessive sports fan - service or nostalgic recall . for certain , it has both , but nothing that ever feels like it ’s taste to cue you of what you sleep together about the previousBill & Tedadventures without bringing anything new to the tabular array . or else , Matheson and Solomon ’s hand ( which they spell on spec ) plays out as a proper continuance ofBill & Ted ’s Excellent AdventureandBogus Journey , but with a newfound gumption of due date and sensitiveness befitting of a drollery - even a lowbrowed one - releasing in 2020 : the dramatic event is more earnest , the historical figures who pop up are less debatable ( well , peradventure not White Jesus , but he only makes a quick cameo ) , and the women actually get to be rummy , especially Thea and Billie .
Though not quite as knuckle - brained as their pop were at their age , Billie and Thea are a chip off the same dude - block as Bill and Ted . It ’s a delight to watch Lundy - Paine and Weaving channel Winter and Reeves ' mannerisms , while at the same fourth dimension adding enough of their own personality to avoid coming off as a grammatical gender - swapped rehashing of their slacker musicians . ( Lundy - Paine , for context , come out as non - binary after they filmed their part as Billie . ) The twain even get an crucial subplot in the film , which both givesFace the Musican excuse to acknowledge the comprehensiveness and ethnical diversity of music chronicle and prevents the part from feeling like a lazy endeavour to fill an inclusiveness quota .
Winter and Reeves are more or less repeat their carrying out from the previous movies inFace the Music , but with some newly - gained emotional wisdom that establish you think sure , this is on the dot what middle - ripened Bill and Ted who ’ve spend the past three decades trying to satisfy their luck would be like . Perhaps to make matter more interesting for the actors , the sequel has Bill and Ted trying to " slip " their universe - saving strain from their future ego , give up Winter and Reeves to assume a variety of prosthetics and wigs to represent old iteration of their characters in a featherbrained running joke that work more often than it does n’t . Jayma Mays and Erin Hayes are given far less to do as Bill and Ted ’s wives ( the out - of - time princesses Joanna and Elizabeth ) , yet make for good straight - cleaning lady to their husbands during a duo ’s therapy session that certainly earns a chortle .
As a sci - fi story , Face the Musicis surprisingly sophisticated ( severely , time - locomotion reach more signified here than it does inAvengers : Endgame ) , and theater director Dean Parisot ( Galaxy Quest ) does a serious job prevent the jokes and laughable side characters - like William Sadler , who ’s back asBogus Journey ’s musically - inclined Grim Reaper , and Anthony Carrigan as a psychoneurotic robo - bravo from the twenty-eighth C - fly fast in - between the explanation of the film ’s quantum mechanics . He does n’t try and evolve the series ' optic vocabulary either : the time - travel succession are done using the same charmingly unwieldy ' fourscore - earned run average graphics as they were in the earlierBill & Tedmovies ( now with improved CGI).Face the Musicstretches its $ 25 million budget as far as it can go to institute its unlike historical preferences to passable life , and if anything its insipid aesthetic is appropriate for a sequel where nobody involved seems all too concerned about blowing audience ’s minds - and that ’s not a complaint , either .
That , in a nutshell , is what makesFace the Musica solemn joy : it ’s not trying to re - invent theBill & Tedwheel , it ’s just a fun and good - natured style for fans of the early movies to revisit this goofball universe . It ’s a motion picture that ’s so definitely uninterested in being pelvis or trendy ( even its post - credits scene are a recall to the approximation that deferred payment sequences should be a playful one - off bit , not a glorified teaser for later sequels ) , it ’s easy to overlook its flaws and appreciate the simplicity of its heartfelt message in times as stressful and disorderly as these . inject , maybe Bill and Ted really can economise the earth .
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Bill & Ted Face the Music stars Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter as the titular characters. Decades after their excellent adventures, Bill and Ted are tasked with creating a song that will save reality as they know it. Alongside their daughters, played by Samara Weaving and Brigette Lundy-Paine, they embark on a new journey through time to fulfill their destiny and bring harmony to the universe.
Bill & Ted Face the Musicis now available to watch on VOD and in quality theaters . It is 88 minutes tenacious and is rat PG-13 for some language .
Bill & Ted Face the Music asterisk Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter as the titular reference . X after their excellent risky venture , Bill and Ted are tax with creating a song that will economize realness as they know it . Alongside their daughter , played by Samara Weaving and Brigette Lundy - Paine , they embark on a new journey through metre to satisfy their destiny and bring harmony to the universe .
