Two rock-'n-rolling teens, on the verge of failing their class, set out on a quest to make the ultimate history presentation after being presented with a time machine.Two rock-'n-rolling teens, on the verge of failing their class, set out on a quest to make the ultimate history presentation after being presented with a time machine.Two rock-'n-rolling teens, on the verge of failing their class, set out on a quest to make the ultimate history presentation after being presented with a time machine.
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- 3 nominations
Kimberley Kates
- Princess Elizabeth
- (as Kimberley LaBelle)
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Did you know
- TriviaAlex Winter claimed that he gets two types of letters from teachers; positive ones from history teachers for encouraging students to learn about history, and negative ones from English teachers for affecting the way students speak.
- GoofsThere is a heinous number of most egregious anachronistic errors in the depiction of the famous historical dudes, their lives, their works, their time periods and the state of their hearing.
- Alternate versionsIn the Television version, there are a few minor dialogue edits. For example, in the scene where Ted falls down a flight of stairs in a suit of armor and a "medieval dude" run the suit through, Bill says to the man who did that "You killed Ted you medieval Dickweed", the Dialogue is changed to "You killed Ted you medieval 'Bonehead'"
- ConnectionsEdited from War and Peace (1956)
- SoundtracksI Can't Break Away
Written by Mitch Bottler and Gary Zekley
Published by Colgems - EMI Music Inc. and Teenie Bopper Music
Performed by Big Pig
Produced by Nick Launay
Courtesy of A&M Records, Inc.
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Strange things are afoot at the Circle K
Two high school friends must pass their final history assignment or face the end of their dreams of forming a rock band.
I saw this movie aged nine on its original release and thoroughly enjoyed it. I think my mind was blown by how cool it made the subject of history seem and how harmlessly likeable the main protagonists were. Unlike me, my parents, who are Baby-Boomer generation, sat through it with me and did not appreciate Bill and Ted's dumb valleys, surfer dude, stoner-like personalities. Much to their distain I rewatched it more than once.
My mother said on one viewing 'How can you watch those two ignorant American boys?' To which I replied 'Can you tell me about Socrates and Lincoln?' Just as I suspected she could not tell me anymore than the film could. In fact she'd never even heard of Socrates or any other Greek philosophers. From that moment on she never uttered a word.
I watched it yesterday, aged forty with my four yearly daughter and appreciate how it might have come across to my mother at the time. However, the key to enjoying it as an adult is not taking it the slightest bit seriously. The dumbness of the main characters is part of what makes them so charming and the concept that a future of civilisation will be based on a Californian teenage sub-culture is a joke you just have to buy into and enjoy.
The basic plot structure is solid and it uses all its silliness in a clever way with the time-travel sci-fi moments. I love the little details like the stolen car-keys and Ted forgetting to wind his watch.
Some jokes hit the mark more now than they did for me as a child, particularly some of the innuendo involving Bill's stepmom and Bill's confirmation to Sigmund Freud of his 'minor oedipal complex'. Ironically, looking back at this time-travel themed movie is like taking a journey back to the 1980s with it's fashion, music and shopping-mall culture.
Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter are perfect as characters who are essentially two halves of the same brain. George Carlin is to coin a phrase 'excellent' as their guardian angel type friend from the future. Also, the visual effects during the time-travel sequences stand up reasonably well by today's standards.
I took a lot of entertainment from it as child and my daughter stuck with it till the end.
For me it is a 7.5/10 but I round upwards.
I saw this movie aged nine on its original release and thoroughly enjoyed it. I think my mind was blown by how cool it made the subject of history seem and how harmlessly likeable the main protagonists were. Unlike me, my parents, who are Baby-Boomer generation, sat through it with me and did not appreciate Bill and Ted's dumb valleys, surfer dude, stoner-like personalities. Much to their distain I rewatched it more than once.
My mother said on one viewing 'How can you watch those two ignorant American boys?' To which I replied 'Can you tell me about Socrates and Lincoln?' Just as I suspected she could not tell me anymore than the film could. In fact she'd never even heard of Socrates or any other Greek philosophers. From that moment on she never uttered a word.
I watched it yesterday, aged forty with my four yearly daughter and appreciate how it might have come across to my mother at the time. However, the key to enjoying it as an adult is not taking it the slightest bit seriously. The dumbness of the main characters is part of what makes them so charming and the concept that a future of civilisation will be based on a Californian teenage sub-culture is a joke you just have to buy into and enjoy.
The basic plot structure is solid and it uses all its silliness in a clever way with the time-travel sci-fi moments. I love the little details like the stolen car-keys and Ted forgetting to wind his watch.
Some jokes hit the mark more now than they did for me as a child, particularly some of the innuendo involving Bill's stepmom and Bill's confirmation to Sigmund Freud of his 'minor oedipal complex'. Ironically, looking back at this time-travel themed movie is like taking a journey back to the 1980s with it's fashion, music and shopping-mall culture.
Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter are perfect as characters who are essentially two halves of the same brain. George Carlin is to coin a phrase 'excellent' as their guardian angel type friend from the future. Also, the visual effects during the time-travel sequences stand up reasonably well by today's standards.
I took a lot of entertainment from it as child and my daughter stuck with it till the end.
For me it is a 7.5/10 but I round upwards.
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Languages
- Also known as
- Dudes
- Filming locations
- Metrocenter Mall - 9801 N. Metro Pkwy W., Phoenix, Arizona, USA(Joan of Arc scenes)
- Production companies
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Box office
- Budget
- $8,500,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $40,485,039
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $6,167,651
- Feb 20, 1989
- Gross worldwide
- $40,508,994
- Runtime1 hour 30 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
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By what name was Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989) officially released in India in Hindi?
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