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17 February 1989 (USA) moreTagline:
History is about to be rewritten by two guys who can't spell... morePlot:
Two seemingly dumb teens struggle to prepare a historical presentation with the help of a time machine. full summary | full synopsisAwards:
3 nominations moreNewsDesk:
(3 articles)
'Bill & Ted' actor Carlin dies, aged 71 (From digitalspy. 23 June 2008, 5:26 AM, PDT)
Comedian George Carlin Dies At 71
(From WENN. 23 June 2008, 12:05 AM, PDT)
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Probably one of the most intelligently written screenplays of alltime. moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Keanu Reeves | ... | Ted Logan | |
| Alex Winter | ... | Bill S. Preston, Esq. | |
| George Carlin | ... | Rufus | |
| Terry Camilleri | ... | Napoleon | |
| Dan Shor | ... | Billy the Kid | |
| Tony Steedman | ... | Socrates | |
| Rod Loomis | ... | Dr. Sigmund Freud | |
| Al Leong | ... | Genghis Khan | |
| Jane Wiedlin | ... | Joan of Arc | |
| Robert V. Barron | ... | Abraham Lincoln (as Robert Barron) | |
| Clifford David | ... | Ludwig van Beethoven | |
| Hal Landon Jr. | ... | Captain Logan | |
| Bernie Casey | ... | Mr. Ryan | |
| Amy Stock-Poynton | ... | Missy Preston | |
| J. Patrick McNamara | ... | Mr. Preston |
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View content advisory for parentsRuntime:
90 minCountry:
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Color (Technicolor)Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 moreSound Mix:
DolbyCertification:
South Korea:12 | Argentina:Atp | Australia:PG | Canada:G | Sweden:7 | UK:PG | USA:PG | West Germany:6 | Singapore:PGFun Stuff
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When Napoleon finishes his "waterslide" presentation at the end of the movie, Ted looks up and says, "I don't think it's gonna work." If you look closely at the maps, you can see that Napoleon is actually diagramming the French invasion of Russia, Napoleon's most disastrous defeat. moreGoofs:
Factual errors: There is a heinous number of most egregious factual errors in the depiction of the famous historical dudes, their lives, their works, their time periods and the state of their hearing. moreQuotes:
[first lines]Rufus: Hi, welcome to the future. San Dimas California 2688. And I'm telling you it's great here. The air is clean, the water's clean, even the dirt, it's clean. Bowling averages are way up, mini-golf scores are way down. And we have more excellent water slides than any other planet we communicate with...
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Any idiot can sit down and spend four or seven years of his life writing out his "masterpiece." You do some research, you do some hard work, you get a little help from friends and family, and you get it done. But, it takes a true writing genius (or geniuses, in this case) to create something as original as "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure." The ingenuity of the movie can even be seen in its delightful tagline: "History is about to be re-written by two guys who can't spell." This tagline is both simple and clever, while being both corny and slightly comical. Like "Real Genius," this film utilizes ideas from both the highest form of screenwriting while still delving into the lowest common denominator, somehow doing both at the same time. For instance, to perfectly grasp the concept of Bill and Ted's "lingo," one would truly have to stoop to the lowest rung of the intelligence level. But, with such ingenius ideas as having Bill and Ted meet each other in the beginning of the film, then later finding themselves, allowing the audience to gain insight on what happened in the past is just a stroke of cinematic brilliance. And the running gag about "when the Mongols conquered China" was one of the many cherries on the cake. Even some of the background comments (after being told he's "too tall, man" making the phone booth even more crowded, Lincoln responds: "That's how I'm built.") Any movie where Genghis Kahn is tempted to come into a phone booth by a Twinkie has to be something special. If only production companies and filmmakers would take a chance on something as original as a time travelling phone booth carrying two idiots on the course to better the future, the public could finally go back to watching movies in theaters again.