![]() Kyle Buchanan is covering the films, personalities and events along the way. The Projectionist Chronicles the Awards Season The Oscars aren’t until March, but the campaigns have begun. "You've got a lot to learn about sportsmanship," Ted solemnly tells the Grim Reaper, who has obviously met his match. They're at their comic best when simply playing dumb and being themselves.īut this second film, more cartoonish and confusing than "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure," insists on cyborgs, extraterrestrials, demonic possession, time travel, and a Father Death figure who challenges the boys to play for their lives on their own terms (that means rounds of Battleship, Twister and Clue). Winter, are most comfortable when doing little more than faking air guitar and devastating the English language. ![]() These two unflappable teen-age heroes, played with such loose-jointed aplomb by Mr. It's also hard to see why the makers of the amusing but sloppy and overcomplicated "Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey" weren't content to leave well enough alone. It's hard not to appreciate two guys who can invest a cry of "Whoa!" with such pure ecstasy and who think that Joan of Arc is Noah's wife. "We got totally lied to by our album covers!" complains Ted, upon catching a glimpse of the latter in hell. This seems perfectly natural to them, as do their meetings, in "Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey," with God and the Devil. ![]() ![]() Bill and Ted inhabit a hip, friendly universe where the lowliest and shaggiest of teen-agers - that would be Bill and Ted - are on an equal footing with Napoleon and Albert Einstein. They are happy idiots, and it's the happy part that matters. Some of us were wrong in mistaking Bill (Alex Winter) and Ted (Keanu Reeves) for mere idiots the first time around. ![]()
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