BILL & TED FACE THE MUSIC

Party on, dads

- Nick Setchfield

RELEASED OUT NOW!

2020 | 12 | Blu-ray (4K/standard)/DVD/ download

Director Dean Parisot

Cast Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, Samara Weaving, Brigette Lundy-Paine

Playing air guitar in Development Hell for the best part of a decade, the third Bill & Ted movie clearly faced a dilemma. The duo’s original adventures – released as the ’80s bled into the ’90s – belonged to a moment: the world was Generation X’s playground and freewheeling, good-natured dopiness could rule.

Now the planet is a grimmer place. Could Bill and Ted possibly fit the 21st century? And did we want our slacker gods preserved in all their idiot glory? Or should they grow, evolve, reflect the passage of 30 years? A mature Bill and Ted… wouldn’t that be, like, most egregious, if not altogether bogus?