Best Pirce 🛒 Bill And Ted’s Excellent Adventure (25th Anniversary Steelbook Edition) Blu Ray – Amy Stock-Poynton, Tony Camilieri  🤩

Bill and Ted (Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter) are high school no-hopers who dream of forming a rock band, but unless Ted can pass a history exam, he will be shipped off to military school. When a figure from the future arrives with a time-travelling telephone booth, Bill and Ted use it to leap in and out of history, meeting such people as Napoleon, Socrates and Billy the Kid on the way. A sequel, ‘Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey’, followed.

Time travel in the movies is at an all time high in Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure. Bill S Preston Esquire (Alex Winter) and Ted Theodore Logan (Keanu Reeves) are in danger of flunking History class. They’re rescued by Rufus (George Carlin), a resident of San Dimas 700 years in the future–a future in which their band Wyld Stallyns has brought about world peace and the best water slides in the universe. Entrusted with a phone booth time machine, they pick up various historical personages to give a colourful stage show for their final exam. The hip 80s rock sensibility paved the way for many comedies that followed Wayne’s World, with air guitar and phrases like “bogus” and “dude” entrenching themselves way beyond the film’s cult following. The film spawned a number of spin-offs including a bodacious cartoon and comic book series. On the DVD: a trailer and a gallery of 20 behind-the-scenes photos will disappoint fans, even though it’s interesting to see director Stephen Herek at work before he moved onto more serious films such as Mr Holland’s Opus. However, the film has never looked better than in this transfer, and the effects still look terrific (especially the channels of Time). A Dolby sound mix also does wonders for Beethoven’s keyboard improvs. –Paul Tonks