The film seems to suggest that our traditional view of greatness in the contemporary US is virtually impossible, but it also democratizes what greatness can look like in a society like ours by elevating friendship, decency and good naturedness.

| Jun 14, 2024

Sharp dialogue and air guitar exclamations provide chuckle worthy moments that have seeped into the cultural lexicon almost because of the terrible fashions, simplistic eighties effects, and the bizarre vision of a future utopia.

| Jul 25, 2023

Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure has a supremely silly story that some may deem “dated,” but its classic charms - and Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves' pitch-perfect performances - are still just as entertaining as ever.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 1, 2022

“Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure” is every bit as absurd as it sounds, and that’s a compliment.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 19, 2022

The films logic, where it exists, is cartoonish, even tautological. There is never a situation the boys cant get out of because their future selves have already devised clues and gadgets to get them out of any pinch.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Mar 1, 2022

As a lighthearted, comic fantasy (taking a few notes from "Weird Science"), the film is quite enjoyable.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jan 2, 2022

[UPDATED 2024 4K + BLU-RAY REVIEW] The script by Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon is more clever in the small details than in the broad strokes.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 29, 2021

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure is tons of fun because it's sense of ridiculousness never goes too far as to be absurd (a crime of which its sequel is guilty).

| Apr 14, 2021

It's hard not to love unaccomplished would-be heroes who prove to be amazingly resourceful when under the gun, and their timeless little movie is defiantly fun and precious as a result.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 1, 2020

It's more charming than funny but with all their dumb antics Bill and Ted are quite charming

| Aug 24, 2020

A total joy. Bill and Ted are so cartoonish, when they have a bright idea I half-expect to see fizzing lightbulbs on their heads. But their relationship is touching and very human, and it turns out we were all pronouncing Socrates wrong.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 13, 2020

Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure is absolutely absurd and still funny as hell. Reeves and Winters have remarkable chemistry together.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 23, 2020

A spectacularly stoo-pid slacker comedy that actually gets better as it goes along, if only because the ungainly chemistry of the two leads really does grow on you.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 5, 2020

It's an inspired bit of silliness, and one of the best of its kind.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 6, 2019

Thankfully, the sense of humor still holds and the lead characters are as sweet and dumb as ever. They mean well, they just don't have follow through--and we've all known that person.

| Jul 3, 2018

... this is a spirited doofus comedy sustained by the sweet, slack-jawed performances of Reeves and Winter as dumbfounded idiots who stumble through time to cram for their history final ...

| Aug 4, 2017

It dodges the pitfalls of message-heavy teen movies and skirts the spite of the dumb-and-dumber era it arguably helped birth. Add two innately loveable leads and you can see it takes some smarts to sell something quite this daft.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 22, 2014

What really makes it all work are Reeves and Winter. They're such appealing, wide-eyed idiots that it's impossible not to pull for them. They make a great team.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 22, 2014

A totally excellent film.

| Oct 22, 2014

Though its one-liners elicit the occasional chortle -- when Bill and Ted don medieval armor, there's an obligatory heavy-metal joke -- the film doesn't engage, because its heroes don't engage with the historical characters.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 22, 2014