Review – Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure

Who would ever have thought that there would be such a fine line between absurdism and simple stupidity? The concept here is that humanity’s future depends on whether or not two slackers pass their history class. So an emissary from tomorrow gives our heroes a time-traveling phone booth that allows them to collect a squad of historical figures and take them back to San Dimas to aid in the presentation of a make-or-break final report. To be sure, most of the jokes here are pretty dumb, along the same order as Wayne’s World and Beavis and Butthead, though Bill and Ted came first by a few years. What saves this from being just another stupid slacker movie is the ironic interaction between the lofty icons of yesteryear and the lack-wit future of the human race. Worth seeing