
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
Taste attributes: adventurecomedyscience fictionmusic/danceanimalsfastfresh & originallightimaginarysimpleglossyemotive & stirringall consuming questcomplex relationshipfish out of water/culture clashself destruction/implosionunlikely connections
"History is about to be rewritten by two guys who can't spell."
Boxlist takeAn otherworldly, pacy sci-fi film: breezy and inventive. Best if you like the extraordinary over the everyday.
Pace: fast · Originality: fresh · Tone: balanced · Weight: light · Realism: imaginary world · Story: simple · Structure: balanced · Look: glossy · Scale: balanced · Emotional punch: stirringHow we score
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What lines up
- Originality: Fresh / original, just how this profile likes it
- Linearity: Balanced linearity, just how this profile likes it
- Setting / scale: Balanced setting / scale, just how this profile likes it
What might not click
- Intricacy: Basic story, where this profile leans smart / intricate
- Weightiness: Light / accessible, where this profile leans weighty / heavy
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Synopsis
Bill and Ted are high school buddies starting a band. They are also about to fail their history class—which means Ted would be sent to military school—but receive help from Rufus, a traveller from a future where their band is the foundation for a perfect society. With the use of Rufus' time machine, Bill and Ted travel to various points in history, returning with important figures to help them complete their final history presentation.
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- Genre
- Adventure
- Year
- 1989
- Runtime
- 90 min
- Status
- Released
- Studio
- Orion Pictures
- Taste scores
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