![]() Some movies will have this same type of message shoehorned into a film full of negative gender, or racial, stereotypes and mean spirited jokes. ![]() Wouldn't surprise me if some form of hippies wrote and directed this movie. ![]() Of course this message is delivered in the most 80s way possible with the phrase 'Be excellent to each other and party on dudes' being the big point of emphasis of this theme. It also has a pretty positive message all things considered about, essentially, being kind to each other. I can't explain what that something else, but it makes it more than just your average teen comedy. But there's a certain effort and cleverness about the time travel aspect that adds something to the film. I'm not gonna say this film is the best time travel film that is out there, hell there were better time travel movies released in the same decade, Back to the Future, as if you hadn't guessed that already. This movie definitely had a bit of a rough start, but it eventually settled down into a silly and fun way to spend 90 minutes. His delivery is still wooden, but there's a little more life behind his performance. Perhaps being a goofball, which is what both Bill and Ted are, just came more naturally to him than other roles. I like Keanu a lot actually, but there's no denying that he's not a particularly good actor. Perhaps expressive isn't really even the right term to describe it, but he put in a lot more effort into this role, one that doesn't really require him to do much anyway, in comparison to some of his later roles. It's impressive to see how utterly expressive Keanu Reeves actually was in this movie. If only "Excellent Adventure" which was made in 1988, was released THAT YEAR instead of 1989, and "Bogus Journey" was made quickly and released in 1989, then it too would have probably been just as wildly received as the first.I was clearly in the mood for something goofy and silly when I picked this one. 1991 was nothing like 1988 or 1989, whereas right now, 2002 and last year 2001 still looks/looked like 1995 or 1996. The transition from the '80s to the '90s was a much faster change then now with the '90s and '00s. "Gremlins 2" which also came out in the early '90s suffered a similar fate of being a good film that bombed at the box office because it was too associated with the '80s. Nobody but surfers were still saying stuff like "excellent!" and "bogus!" in 1991. Bill and Ted with their Ozzy Osbourne, Van Halen and Guns N' Roses music along with their '80s style seemed so out of place and very outdated in '91, and I think that's one BIG reason the film bombed at the box office. ![]() Even though the '80s were only a couple years ago back at that time, the landscape of the music and style for kids had changed so radically with gangsta rap, hip hop, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, grunge and the Seattle sound. In 1991, Bill and Ted already seemed "so '80s". I think the problem may be that this film was just released a couple years too late. "Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey" also bombed at the box office, whereas the first one was a pretty good hit and very popular. But the film was forgotten when it first came out, and became even more overlooked as the years passed. It's just plain fun and in my opinion this film tops the first one. It's highly imaginative, creative and clever. ![]()
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