Another long-gestating Hollywood project has released this weekend:
Bill and Ted Face the Music
Written by Bill and Ted creators Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon, director Dean Parisot helms this third and final (?) installment into the lives of everyone’s favorite garage band: Wyld Stallyns.
Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter return to the title roles, now older but still obsessed with uniting the world with The Song.
But that’s not really going very well at the moment, as evidenced by their status as washed up has-beens playing Elks lodges instead of sold-out stadiums.
When Rufus’ (the late, great George Carlin) daughter, Kelly (played by the wonderful Kristen Schaal), arrives to tell them they have only 7 hours to compose and play the song at a certain location or else all of time and reality will fold in on itself…
Well, you can imagine the chaos that ensues.
As Bill and Ted journey forward through time to find the versions of themselves who have already written The Song, their daughters Thea (Samara Weaving) and Billie (Bridette Lundy-Paine) travel back through time to assemble the greatest band in history to play the song once their dads retrieve it.
Oh, and the princesses are gallivanting through time with their older selves trying to find a reality in which they can be happy with Bill and Ted.
So there’s that.
Sounds complicated, but they never let you get lost, and in the end, the message they receive from Rufus early in the film finally makes sense… because we reach the end of the story.
Have a listen as we talk about the smile-inducing film that is Bill and Ted Face the Music.
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