I actually thought the first half was funnier, particularly when 2-year future Bill & Ted tried to attack themselves and it only gets worse from there). Most of it was somewhat amusing, but it was also disturbing what they did to the plot relative to the other movies. Not only was it the "music" of Wyld Stallions that would bring the planets into alignment (not just Earth, but other planets all with excellent water slides!), not just "one song" that doesn't even matter (so WTF would they need famous people from history to be in the band?) I found it a little disturbing that the one and only white male musician from history got no credit for playing Mozart in the Cast listing at the end of the movie. I can certainly see them picking Hendrix to be in a rock band; Armstrong was great, but not a rock musician, let alone Mozart, but we all know the greatest drummer of all time was Neil Peart of Rush, not some made up stone age Neanderthal playing what resembles a modern drum set with bones (utterly ridiculous, yet not meant to be funny). You can also plainly see in the first movie when they go to the future, it's young Bill & Ted in the animated holographic Wyld Stallion covers, not old Bill & Ted and certainly not with some historical helper band that is ultimately revealed to be superfluous anyway. Not a "woke" film, they said?
But the future was supposed to be, "...great, I'm tellin' ya!", but instead we now see a dour future controlled by one woman (Rufus' wife no less?) who is apparently so "enlightened" that she thought a killer robot to murder Bill & Ted (not unlike the robots [plural] of Bogus Journey in a way) was the solution. It's great to know murder is a problem solving solution in the future and Terminator robots are the norm....
In a way, it makes the 2nd movie look good as it's clearly the bad guys that are sick of Bill & Ted's surfer dude attitudes. Now it's "not so clear" and "others have ideas that perhaps their death fixes things" etc. WTF!? Was that robot supposed to be autistic or something or just special? They could say retarded in the first film. It'd be the end of the Earth in this one if they did, despite it being a music term. And why is it the future people couldn't just give them the song to play? They know all of history, but they don't know
that? That seems kind of odd given the prior movies interpretation of time. Hell looked different. What happened to the Devil and the chains and the nightmares? It looked a little too traditional in some respects. I did find Death's house there amusing, though.
Their wives (played yet by two still different actresses from the each of the previous two movies) searching other realities where they're happy? It's the Circuits of Time™ not the Alternate Universe Transporter! I think they just made this stuff up as they went.... And why was time coming apart in the first place? There was no CAUSE given. It just was. Brilliant. Originally, their music brought people together and made contact with aliens possible, etc., not fixing some bizarre time rift that shouldn't have existed in the first place.
Missy marrying Deacon (also different actor)? That was a bit much and given how poorly she's aged compared to Kenau and Alex, I guess it's supposed to be a reverse joke from the first two movies (hot young chick marrying older dudes is now older woman who let herself go marries younger dude). I had to check the cast list to make sure that was her as she was barely recognizable.
I didn't know who Brigette Lundy-Paine was, but thought she at least looked kind of cute and just now when I looked Brigette up, she's not a "her" at all, but a "they" apparently as one of these "non-binary" types with photos galore ranging from male to female looks all over the place while claiming to be neither. Brilliant. I sense a California upbringing for some reason (checking Wikipedia; yup; moved there at age 2 with actors for parents. Nature or nurture? I'd say the latter has a
huge effect on the psyche....) Hugo Weaving's niece looked good in some other things, but didn't seem attractive at all here to me. The days of having movie eye candy to interest heterosexual males are sadly over. No Porky's movies for Generation Z! Those were EVIL I say! Ultra violence in movies like the comic book ones is much preferable!
By far the worst thing of all, though was that Bill & Ted were absolutely made pointless and unnecessary beyond having two kids that figure out that having everyone play along to a terrible song is what fixes the Universe, not the music of Wyld Stallions, which was the entire point of the first two movies! The movie makes no sense at all in that regard and destroys the reason for the first two movies to exist. If De Nomolos had succeeded, it wouldn't have mattered one iota. Wyld Stallions only had one hit song! So much for the future loving Bill & Ted's music. I guess the music didn't matter at all (It's funny because I remember seeing a list of songs in the credits, but I don't recall hearing very many, unlike the excellent soundtrack to the first movie). Ridiculous. I think I want my $25 back....
