Review of Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020) by Moviemitch96 — 28 Aug 2020

Having enjoyed the first film ('Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure') as a campy guilty pleasure and admittedly having only seen bits and pieces of the second film ('Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey'), I was pretty interested to see how this third outing would turn out.

Bill Preston and Theodore Logan (Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves respectively) started off in the first film as two dim-witted wannabe high school rockers who travelled back in time to recruit famous historical figures for their history report, and in this film are now grown up as dads who each have a daughter they hilariously named after each other (Billie and Thea).

In order to save the world, they must travel through time to try and find a way to write a song that will literally unite everybody in the world. First off, the movie is plenty campy as expected, and contains its fair share of cringy moments, even to the point of becoming a bit excessive for my liking.

However, I really enjoyed the chemistry between not just Winter and Reeves, but also their daughters Billie and Thea (Brigette Lundy-Paine and Samara Weaving respectively) who are essentially just as dim-witted and rock-obsessed as their dads in this film.

I also enjoyed some of the musical cameos, such as Dave Grohl and Kid Cudi, but wish they could've been utilized a little bit more. As far as story goes, it's all ridiculous and kinda crazy at times, which I know is the point, but I can't help but feel like it all could've flowed a little better than it did.

It all felt like a bit of a chaotic mess to me when all was said and done. Overall, as much as I enjoyed the chemistry between most of the actors, I was overwhelmed with the chaotic and overly frantic storyline, but also underwhelmed by it as well, as it really didn't bring anything too new or memorable to the table.