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Not Heinous At All: Bill And Ted Are Back To 'Face The Music'

Thirty years after they befriended Napoleon and beat the Grim Reaper in a game of Battleship,
Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves are back as everyone's favorite dim-witted would-be rock stars, Bill S. Preston, Esq., and Ted "Theodore" Logan.

Bill S. Preston Esquire and Ted "Theodore" Logan have been to heaven and hell, the past and the future. They've befriended Abraham Lincoln and Joan of Arc. They've bested the Grim Reaper in a game of Battleship.

Now, nearly 30 years after we last saw them, the duo reunite in the new movie, Bill & Ted Face the Music.

"We were excited by the idea that we first heard from the writers," says Alex Winter, who plays Bill, "and then we had

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