Kelly WandBill and Ted
August 29th 2006 05:18
I don’t know what universe you guys are from but, in mine, Bill and Ted rock. For those of you haven’t had the very great pleasure of meeting these esteemed gentlemen, let me explain. Bill and Ted are like totally the least likely dudes to bring about the golden age of mankind because they make your slackest of friends look like born again workaholics. Even that mate of yours who hasn’t changed his bong water in like three score and seven years, he looks positively industrious beside our two high school going heroes.
They want success for their band “Wyld Stallyons” and expend all their available effort on preparing their stage introductions but none on such essential skills such as learning to play instruments or write songs. In fact, viewers will probably suspect that any kind of writing, reading or arithmetic is beyond these fellows. Not that we mind. Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter play the pair in such a likeable manner that all is forgiven. You wouldn’t scold your pet puppy for failing calculus, would you?
Things are looking bad for our dynamic duo. If Bill fails school, his Dad is going to send him off to military college thus putting paid to their musical aspirations. Given Bill’s less than sterling academic credentials, this is all looking like a fait accompli not to mention being totally heinous and bogus.
Fortunately, these future dudes from the Golden age of mankind can’t be having any of that. If Bill fails his History presentation, the Golden age of mankind just ain’t gonna be happening any time soon. That’d also probably mean they would vanish in some kind of puff of existential paradox so they send this cool guy called Rufus back with his time machine to save the day.
That’s about all you really need to be told. It is just that dumb but nowhere near as dumb as it pretends to be. You don’t need to have seen Ingmar Bergman’s “The Seventh Seal” to laugh as Bill and Ted battle with Death but it doesn’t hurt either. You know what I’m saying?
I’m not going to try and kid you that these films are great art. I’m not going to tell you that there is genius at work between the frames. That doesn’t mean I wouldn’t recommend them wholeheartedly. Trust me on this. People cannot live by brains alone. There comes a time when you have to kick back and have some big dumb fun.
Be excellent to each other.
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