Bill and Ted Face the Music may not rock the universe, but this comeback is true to the generous, guileless — and anti-elitist — spirit of the originals.
What if the slacker icons of American cinema lapsed into middle-age mediocrity? Ferris Bueller doomed to forever repeat high school, Wayne and Garth working dead-end retail jobs at Guitar Center, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles gone to seed in some depressing backwater freakshow?
"I'm tired, dude," sighs Ted, and Reeves's rusty delivery — a dissonant side effect, perhaps, of an adult career in the post-human sublime — certainly reflects it. The ultimatum compels Bill and Ted to — if not exactly write the song — then attempt to steal it from their successful future selves. Rapper Kid Cudi plays a fictional version of himself and was offered the role after the film's writers found out he was a Bill and Ted superfan.
By the time Bill and Ted reunite with their estranged former bandmate Death , who hasn't aged a day over infinity, and scoop up some winning new characters like Dennis Caleb McCoy , a killer robot with an identity crisis, it's hard not to be swept along by the obvious goofy love put into all of it.
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