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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Cast
- Keanu ReevesTed Logan
- Alex WinterBill S. Preston
- George CarlinRufus
- Robert V. BarronAbraham Lincoln
- Terry CamilleriNapoleon
- Clifford DavidLudwig van Beethoven
- Al LeongGenghis Khan
- Rod LoomisDr. Sigmund Freud
- Dan ShorBilly the Kid
- Tony SteedmanSocrates
- 100
Entertainment Weekly
Delightfull time-travel comedy. - 83
The A.V. Club
There are multiple reasons why Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure is such an entertaining movie even now, but the biggest is that Matheson, Solomon, and director Stephen Herek found the perfect Bill and Ted in Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves, two young actors with just the right boyish energy. - 60
Empire
An insanely effective no-brainer of a film, sparkling with a simple charm and energy rarely witnessed this side of illegal substances. - 60
Time Out
This is extremely silly, good natured, superficial stuff; a lot depends on whether you take to Bill and Ted's unique lingo (which contorts surfers' expressions) and their gormless behaviour. - 50
TV Guide Magazine
Has an intangibly charming goofiness about it that is somehow endearing: here is a movie about teenagers that contains no excessive profanity, no drug references, and no explicit sexual activity. - 50
Washington Post
If the director, Stephen Herek, has any talent for comedy, it's not visible here. - 40
Austin Chronicle
Everything Reeves has done since always has the whiff of "Ted" about it. Party on, dudes. - 40
Variety
Reeves, with his beguilingly blank face and loose-limbed, happy-go-lucky physical vocabulary, and Winter, with his golden curls, gleefully good vibes and 'bodacious' vocabulary, propel this adventure as long as they can.