Time has been far from excellent to the air-guitar-loving airheads when we’re reunited with them. Yet it’s hard not to feel an opportunity has been missed to tell a most excellent new story. A clear labour of love for Matheson and Solomon, who’ve been working on script drafts for a Bill & Ted threequel since 2010 but struggled to get studio backing until star Keanu Reeves’ post- John Wick career renaissance, the film delivers a punchy reminder of why audiences fell for the rockers in the first place. Bill & Ted Face The Music’s plot may send the Wyld Stallyns forward in time, but this threequel mainly rehashes past glories, neglecting new material for a Greatest Hits compilation of beats from the franchise’s first films. Where else was there for the slackers’ story to go? Its 1991 sequel upped the ante, forcing the pair to avert an impending apocalypse, face Death himself and win a local Battle Of The Bands. In 1989, screenwriters Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon scored a cult sleeper hit with Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, a big-hearted romp about two hard-rocking high-schoolers who rescue their history grades by zapping back in time to meet Genghis Khan, So-Crates and co first hand. How much wisdom there is in getting the loveable metalhead misfits back together for another time-travelling caper, two decades after their last, has been hotly debated since word first emerged of this sequel. Preston Esq and Ted ‘Theodore’ Logan once remarked to each other. “The only true wisdom consists in knowing that you know nothing.” “That’s us, dude!” Bill S.
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