Review of Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020) by Jiflover — 01 Sep 2020

Full disclosure I stopped watching about 30 minutes in.

I made an account just to say this: Don't see this movie. I'm not sure what people are smoking but this movie is terrible.

Where we left off in Bill & Ted 2: They use the time machine to learn how to play, they come back with their two sons "little Bill" & "little Ted" then broadcast to the world and they finally do achieve world peace. The story was in essence: Over. This movie sets the scene by retconning the entire second movie, then retconning the concept of the series in the first place and then retconning their sons. It's weird to watch really. Bill & Ted go from icons in the future to myths, their story from legend to theory. Roofus is just some guy who had a wild theory that they SAVE the universe rather than just unite the universe. Every bit of the end of the second movie basically didn't happen and for some odd reason their sons are now daughters. But lets put all that aside for now as there is some debate whether canon in books, films and television should be completely ignored in favor of putting anything you can imagine together and calling it art. Me personally I think restrictions encourage creativity rather than constricts it but we'll put that aside for now.

The acting is horrible; Keanu Reeves clearly wasn't feeling the part anymore. Alex Winter was never good. The daughters were giving cringe-inducingly bad impressions of Bill & Ted. The story was just hackneyed garbage. They literally had to go back to hell again. The impression I got from this movie is that they wanted to do a do-over of the second movie and couldn't just make the plunge and say it. If I saw this in a theater I would have walked out. I almost walked out of my house. Don't see this movie. I truly don't get why people are giving this crap positive reviews. There is nothing good about it. It's like if Nickelodeon wanted to make another spy kids movie and decided to phone it in. Bill & Ted has always been stupid, silly and ridiculous but I never felt like they thought I had the mental capacity of a 4 year old. This movie is an insult to its viewers. It's essentially the director, the cast and the writers all saying: "You all have baby brains, be nice to each other." It's bad. Don't see it. They should be embarrassed.