BILL & TEDS EXCELLENT ADVENTURE (UMD/PSP/WS 1.78 ANAMORPHIC/2.0/ENG-FR-SUB) DVD

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
With only a few days before their high-school graduation, it looks like airheaded rock star wannabes Bill (Alex Winter) and Ted (Keanu Reeves) are doomed to flunk all their finals. The boys' long-suffering teacher (Bernie Casey) gives them one more chance. If they can ace an oral exam on the topic of how a famous historical personality might react to modern times, they will be allowed to pass. If not, Ted's dad will plunk the boy into military school, thereby breaking up the boys' garage band permanently. Bill and Ted receive unexpected aid from a very unexpected source: Rufus (George Carlin), an Emissary from the Future. It seems that in Rufus' time, Bill and Ted's rock music is the basis of all society-and if their band is aborted, Rufus' world will no longer exist. Thus, Bill and Ted are whisked off in a time machine (actually a telephone booth) to retrieve a few historical characters--including Joan of Arc, Abe Lincoln, Napoleon and Beethoven--as "eyewitnesses" for their crucial oral exam. Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure inspired both a sequel (Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey) and a Saturday morning cartoon series. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast Keanu Reeves as Ted "Theodore" Logan Alex Winter as Bill S. Preston George Carlin as Rufus Bernie Casey as Mr. Ryan Terry Camilleri as Napoleon Dan Shor as Billy the Kid Tony Steedman as Socrates Roi Loomis as Sigmund Freud Jane Wiedlin as Joan of Arc Robert V. Barron as Abraham Lincoln Clifford David as Ludwig van Beethoven Hal Landon Jr. as Capt. Logan Amy Stock-Poynton as Missy/Mom J. Patrick McNamara as Mr. Preston

Crew Gordon White - Art Director Glenis S. Gross - Casting Brad Jeffries - Choreography Joel Soisson - Co-producer Scott Kroopf - Co-producer Jill M. Ohanneson - Costume Designer Stephen Herek - Director Partick Rand - Editor Larry Bock - Editor David Newman - Composer (Music Score) Daniel Marc - Makeup Roy Forge Smith - Production Designer Tim Suhrstedt - Cinematographer Ted Field - Producer Stephen Deutsch - Producer Michael S. Murphey - Producer Robert W. Cort - Producer Jennifer Williams - Set Designer Barry Nolan - Special Effects Dan Bradley - Stunts Ed Solomon - Screenwriter Chris Matheson - Screenwriter

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
This slacker comedy provides some good low-brow laughs and, sadly enough, delivered many teenagers some history lessons when it was released. Keanu Reeves' breakthrough role as the loveable dunce Ted resulted in typecasting that would plague his career until The Matrix. The film aggravated some educators with its frivolous treatment of academia but brought praise from others for making history fun and palatable. It also stamped words like "bogus" and "gnarley" firmly into the '80s slang lexicon. George Carlin's appearance as the time-traveler Rufus adds a little comedic legitimacy to this little film, which essentially boils down to engaging and well-paced silly, mindless fun with a fairly well-written script. The legacy of Bill and Ted can be traced to the slacker comedies of Adam Sandler, and the film itself was popular enough to spawn an ill-fated sequel and a short-lived Saturday morning cartoon. ~ Mike DiBella, All Movie Guide
 

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General Specifications: Language Options: English Subtitle Options: English, French Sound Processing: Additional Features: Full-length movie Widescreen presentation DVD picture quality DVD Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1: Cinemascope MPAA Rating: PG DVD Discs Included: 1 DVD Sides: 1 DVD DVD Region Code: 1 Content Length: 90 min