Theatrical Thursday: "Excellent!!" " Bogus!!"

Yes I was thinking of that most excellent of movies, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure and followed by the non-heinous sequel Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey. I was thinking of How Keanu might feel about those movies today, now that he is such a big success...ok was a big success...in fact what was the latest movie that he stared in since the House time travel rom com with the hot but hardly seen Sandra Bullock.
Bill and Ted had to be the influence for Beavis and Butthead as well as Waynes World. These two bumbling rockers to be managed to pass their history exam and bring universal peace. They even gave Death a place in the bad. They were most excellent.

A number of reasons why I love this movie.

1. The dialog for the two main characters is just some of the best brain dead teen banter. Especially when they a talking about Bill's totally hot young step mom.

2. The phone booth. Closest thing America will come to having their own Dr. Who TARDIS, this device truely rocked. Totally.

3. You Killed Ted you Mid-Evil Dickweed!!

4. This is one of the last 80's comedies and was a great book end to a wild decade that spawned some of the best Modern Classic in Hollywood.

5. Wylde Stallyons!! I think Keanu truely was good in this film. In fact all the actors did a great job in recognizing just what kind of movie they were making. Having the late great George Carlin as their guide Roofus helped keep the movie from going just that little bit too far into Dumb and Dumber realm. ( Sorry didn't like that movie even if it had Jeff Daniels in it. ALl the greats have one flop. Ben Kingsley in Bloodrayne, enough said)

6. 69 Dude.

7. Very Quotable.
The script for this movie had some great oneliners and it was a story that never took it self too seriously. In the same vein though it also did not fall off the edge to where it was so over the top the jokes became as stale as the popcorn you were eating.

I recommend folks watch this again, if nothing else to remember a simpler time when there were comedies that did not star Will Farrell.