Bill & Ted Face The Music is a return to a time traveling phone booth, a dense, but fun loving duo, and this story is about their daughters! The film is currently at select theaters and video on demand. This of course is the last movie that started with Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989) and then Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey (1991), so this is twenty-nine years later! The film is directed by Dean Parisot who also directed Red 2 (2013) and the sci fi comedy, Galaxy Quest (1999). The screenwriters are Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon who created the characters, wrote the previous films, and also the comedy Imagine That (2009). It opens with narration by Thea Preston (Samara Weaving) and Billie Logan (Brigette Lundy-Paine). Weaving is in the drama series Hollywood and was in horror comedy Ready or Not (2019). Lundy-Paine was in the drama, Bombshell (2019) and stars in the series Atypical. They do great reactions similar to their fathers and the women are the heart of this movie.
They introduce their fathers catching viewers up from the other movies. This is William S. “Bill” Preson, Esq. and Ted “Thedore” Logan (Keanu Reeves). Winter starred and directed the comedy Smosh: The Movie (2015) and was also known for the horror movie The Lost Boys (1987). Reeves of course has an incredible run of movies including John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum (2019) and his early filmwork includes Point Break (1991). They of course form the band Wyld Stallyns, and in Bogus Journey they write the song that will unite the world and bring harmony to the universe. This didn’t happen and instead Billie and Thea note that the band broke up. It looks like they were a one-hit wonder and soon faded from the music scene. We find that there is a disruption with time, famous historical figures disappear, finding themselves in the place of their counterparts. We get the center of space and time, take that Gallifrey!, San Dimas, California. Bill & Ted are in suits at a wedding.
This is the wedding of Missy (Amy Stoch), who was previously married to Bill & Ted’s fathers, and Deacon (Beck Bennett), the younger brother of Ted. Stoch is one of the few continuing actors in the Bill & Ted movies and was also in the drama Amber Rose (2010). Bennett is known for Saturday Night Live and was in the comedy The Party Is Over (2015). Bill & Ted introduce the wedding party to their daughters, both 24, and wives who were medieval princesses, Elizabeth (Erinn Hayes) and Joanna (Jayma Mays), the wives were played by different actresses every film. Hayes was in this year’s comedy Holly Slept Over and previously was in the comedy series Childrens Hospital. Mays was in the musical series Glee and also the bio comedy American Made (2017). Ted also introduces his father, Chief Logan (Hall Landon Jr.), who has a slightly larger part in this story.
Then, they give as a wedding present, the world premiere of their “sonic creation”, uh-oh. It is a combination of throat singing, bagpipes, and really just the most annoying sounds together! Their daughters groove to it, but not the rest of the wedding party. Chief Logan has had enough and disconnects the power. Bill & Ted pack up their equipment in a van and Chief Logan disbelieves their adventures. Bill & Joanna are later walking in a hallway and meet with Ted and Elizabeth. They all meet with the marriage counselor, Dr. Taylor Wood (Jillian Bell), who tries to be patient with the duo. Bell was in the comedy Brittany Runs a Marathon (2019) and she was also in the action comedy 22 Jump Street (2014). Bill & Ted can only give a “we love you” to their wives, they of course are inseperable, and Joanna & Elizabeth need to work out their session by themselves. They find their daughters listening to music and back their fathers.
Ted is considering selling his Gibson Les Paul guitar and ending the duo. This is when there is the arrival of a white, egg-shaped time traveling vehicle. Billie & Thea watch the arrival from the window. The traveler is Kelly played by Kristen Schaal. She was in teh comedy series The Last Man on Earth and the comedian was also in this year’s action comedy My Spy. Bill realizes that she is Rufus’ daughter, he of course was their mentor in the other movies played by George Carlin. The music of course is the problem and she takes them to the future. It is a future of blue skies, white buildings, and cool, blue pools. They also see the phone booth, a hologram of Rufus, who explains that it was his first time traveling vehicle. They meet The Great Leader (Holland Taylor) and the Great Ones. Taylor was in the romance film, To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You (2020) and also the comedy show Two and a Half Men. She says that they did not unite the world and notes that the duo has 77 minutes to write the song or reality will be destroyed!
Kelly is there is help them and gives a pocket watch that has a saying from Rufus. This is kinda fun really about how an over-the-hill band tries to capture some of its former glory. Ted has the idea of going forward in time to get the song from their future selves. They go to Rufus’ phone booth time machine to try to find the song. This of course goes into unexpected territory with future Bill & Ted very much changed from their present selves. Future Ted says that they have lost their wives at couples therapy. The goofy duo explore a future that gets more and more desperate. Winter and Reeves have fun returning to their classic parts. Kelly argues with her mother, The Great Leader, that her father believed in Bill & Ted that they will find their song. The Great Leader has the interpretation that the duo must die to restore reality.
She takes her daughter to see the latest pale robot (Anthony Carrigan). He is brilliant in the comedy crime series, Barry, and was in the police drama based on the Batman comic books, Gotham. The robot can form his own time travel pod. Kelly travels to the present to look for the robot and instead has Billie & Thea travel in Kelly’s egg to form a band made of members across time! This includes a guitarist played by DazMannStill and another musician portrayed by Jeremiah Craft. It really shifts to the daughters to save reality by basically playing out the first movie. The beginning is slow paced until it goes to time traveling with Billie & Thea. The adventure also involves Death played by William Sadler. He was outwitted by Bill & Ted in Bogus Journey. Sadler was also in the horror remake The Grudge (2020) and was Heywood in The Shawshank Redemption (1994). Bill & Ted Face The Music has a strong ending that wraps up the series with a message about the world!
Four Time Circuits out of Five!
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