For old-school movie lovers, the most surreal thing about Keanu Reeves’ career is that he became a beloved action star thanks to movies like The Matrix and John Wick. Back in the ‘80s, he rose to prominence playing an entirely different role: that of a goofy time traveler whose chill vibes and friendship with a fellow airhead would eventually bring about world peace. After decades, Reeves finally returned to the role that made him famous and now, after years being locked away on Amazon Prime Video, you can stream Bill & Ted Face the Music for free on Tubi.
In a clever twist, the plot of Bill & Ted Face the Music is that our titular heroes haven’t lived up to their own prophecy: these two would-be rock stars were meant to write a song that would unite the entire planet. They’ve failed to do so, and the stakes are raised when a new time-traveler informs them that the future will be ruined unless they can finally live up to their own timey-wimey legend. Together, they get help from their daughters, their musical heroes, and even their future selves, but this might not be enough to create the best song ever made before everything comes crashing down.
Bill & Ted Face the Music has a stacked cast, including Ready or Not star Samara Weaving as Bill’s daughter. Meanwhile, I Saw the TV Glow star Jack Haven plays Ted’s daughter. Kristen Schaal plays the daughter of Rufus (the time-traveling guru originally played by George Carlin), and William Sadler returns to play Death, the chillest Grim Reaper to ever grace the silver screen.
Needless to say, the real stars of this unexpected sequel are Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves, who play (respectively) Bill and Ted. Each of them went on to star in much more serious roles, but they had no trouble stepping back in time and inhabiting the cornball ’80s roles that helped make each of them famous. The cultural influence of Bill and Ted is mainly due to their outsized performances in the earlier films, and in Face the Music, it’s great to see they haven’t missed a step.
As sequels go, Bill & Ted Face the Music deserves full points for its meta plot about how its titular duo failed to live up to their destiny. Initially, the prospect of a third Bill and Ted movie seemed preposterous, mostly because we saw these two ostensibly bring the world together at the end of Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey. But the third movie built on the uncertainty of our present times (notably, it came out amid the 2020 pandemic) to deliver a tale of two unlikely heroes doing exactly what the audience longed to do: making an increasingly chaotic world finally start making sense.
Critics agreed, and Bill & Ted Face the Music currently has an 83 percent critical score on Rotten Tomatoes. Critics dug the goofy and unpretentious charm of our titular heroes and the fact that this outing lived up to the previous two films. I fully agree, and if you enjoyed Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey (complete with its android shenanigans and adventures from beyond the grave), you’re sure to love Face the Music.
Will you find Bill & Ted Face the Music a sequel worthy of this legendary film series, or is this one movie that you’d rather send to military school for a bit more discipline? The only way to find out whether this is an excellent adventure or just a bogus journey is to stream it for free on Tubi. Afterwards, you might be motivated by the Zen ethos of our heroes and the simple phrase they live by: “be excellent to each other.”
Oh, and that other important motto: “Party on, dudes!”
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