Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989)

It starts off in the year 2688, San Dimas California, setting the base for this excellent adventure. & quickly, travelling 700 years back, we are introduced to our handsome head-banging heroes. Baby-faced, charming and failing their History class.

It's very clear from the very start that there isn't a bone of seriousness in this flick. & there's no surprise why it grew on to become such a cult classic. The Telephone booth timemachine was clearly a reference to the TARDIS. The scale, the wit, the air-guitar... everything's 'Excellent!' The movie doesn't waste anytime in setting the premise; it's all about an excellent history report. Napoleon, Billy the kid, Socrates, historical babes, Sigmund Freud, Beethoven, Joan-of-arc, Genghis Khan, Abraham Lincoln they're all there. & Napoleon actually enjoyed Waterloo! The director's vision to let loose a bunch of historical figures in a suburban mall is unique. & the time-travel aspect of the movie is brilliantly witty. Predictability goes out of the window.

This is exactly the kind of script a dazed out teenager would come up with, when asked to combine timetravel & 2 goofy musicians. It made me smile, & that's where it earned all its points. But from a realistic scientific time-travel aspect, this movie very cleverly handles self-consistency & paradoxs; somethings that other alleged time-travel movies don't. The 'Wind up your watch' comment & the 'Duck!' note may seem trivial at first glance; but if you really think hard about it, it'll put all your gears into a spin!

Be excellent to each other &... Party on, dudes! Its a fun film; later dudes.

Favourite scenes include: The air guitaring; So crates; the mall-sequence; the prison-escape, the history presentation.

Alternate Ending: I'd give the princesses a bit more screen-time as they are going to be part of Wyld Stallyons ultimately; & I'd make Rufus a bit more fun, he came across very dull.

First viewed: Alone on StarMovies at home.
Rating-3.5*