Bill & Ted Face The Music

1 SAD BILL & TED

Chris Hewitt: Before Face The Music came out, there was a fair amount of concern about how Bill and Ted would behave. Would the happy-go-lucky idiocy that carried them through the first two movies feel weird coming from two blokes now in their fifties? Well, it seems that Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter and creators Ed Solomon and Chris Matheson felt this could be an issue as well, and so went the other way. When we meet our heroes, they’re so weighed down by the pressure of being the saviours of the universe that they’re almost unrecognisable. Reeves’ Ted, in particular, who was flashing his pearlers every five seconds in the first two movies, can barely muster a smile. It feels more authentic (not that authenticity has ever been a watchword for Bill and Ted; they couldn’t even spell it), even if it isn’t a natural wellspring of comedy. It’s a bold decision for a comedy to have your two main characters in the grasp of depression, though thankfully by the end, their ennui has been eradicated. Which is non-non-non-heinous.

I don’t think would have worked