Bill & Ted Face The Music

[brigid]

We've put on "Bill and Ted Face The Music" and my very first impression is that it's a real shame that Alex Winter hasn't been in other stuff. Second impression is that Keanu Reeves has absolutely mastered the same stiff body language he had in the original two movies.

There's spoilers down below.


It's interesting that the first two musicians the girls go to recruit are Black.

Oh my GOD surprise appearance by Dave Grohl!

Not super pleased by Reeves' fat suit. Like fatness is a sign of loserness.

"Maybe we should always not know what we're doing."

Billie so very much has Ted's body language, it's great.

Two Black Americans recruited before the white classical music guy.

The... the giant muscle suits... are weird but also kind of great?

Reeves looks great with that hair and big beard though.

Next up is a Chinese woman who people assumed was a man.

Kristen Schaal is oh so good. As usual.

And a... Neanderthal woman? On drums?

And Kid Cudi, but by accident. Except Kid Cudi is the expert on time travel.

This robot keeps fucking up... and feeling bad about it. Which I love.

Bill and Ted's relationships with their future selves seems to really... line up with their general demeanors? The way they interact emotionally with the world and other people?

This movie just... leans into ridiculousness. Kelly's able to call her mom from hell. There's a dead robot in hell and demons comment on it being weird.

"And here's Kid Cudi who's technically not a historical figure."
"I think I am now."

"There's 19 minutes left!"
*Nesko pauses the movie* "Huh, there's 29 minutes left! Must be a lot of end credits."

It's really interesting how Bill and Ted are Bill&Ted, like they're one unit. Their daughters address them as "dads." Not dad. "Dads." They don't see their wives as one unit. Bill's married to one and Ted's married to the other. But they see themselves as a unit when interacting with their individual wives.

It's a LITTLE odd that Death is not interested in helping Billie and Thea out of hell when apparently he knew them as babies and small children and instead needs them to butter him up and praise him.

So much of this movie is absolutely unnecessary and is actually necessary.

Nikola, looking at Keanu Reeves: Whoa, is that John Wick?
Me: Yes.

"Listen a little. Put Things Together. Make Things You Like."

Chekov's Guitar Center Truck has arrived.

This does seem to capture how a lot of music is being made right now. Bits and pieces of other music recombined in new ways.

And it's also picking up beautifully on what Bill and Ted were trying to do at the wedding. Bits and pieces picked up from all over the place and recombined in different ways.

There's just enough fan service, and it doesn't take itself too seriously. This is such a silly movie.

It took us a while to watch this but it was a good fun time. Maybe not worth paying to see in a movie theater on the big screen? But a good couch movie.

Comments

[brigid]

I want to note that "stiff body language" feels like a CHOICE for the character. Like Ted's really tightly wound and wary of other people. He holds himself really still and is afraid of moving the "wrong" way. It's not just being physically awkward or unaware although it does feel a little bit like that. But maybe someone who is/was a bit clumsy and was physically punished for it? Someone who's afraid of "stepping out of line" both figuratively and literally?