Bill & Ted Face The Music Review: 6 Ups & 4 Downs

Downs...

4. The Over-Familiar Plot

Bill and Ted Face the Music Keanu Reeves Alex Winter
United Artists Releasing

If you're expecting Face the Music to do anything fresh or particularly creative with the series' signature timey-wimey shenanigans, it's time to temper your expectations.

The film more or less combines and rehashes the plots of the first two films, with Bill (Alex Winter) and Ted's (Keanu Reeves) daughters Thea (Samara Weaving) and Billie (Brigette Lundy-Paine) travelling through time to scoop up famous historical icons to help save the day, all while a time-traveling robot, Dennis Caleb McCoy (Anthony Carrigan), attempts to assassinate Bill and Ted.

And it has to be said that neither narrative hits with anywhere near the same punch as it did in the previous films.

While few Bill & Ted fans will never forget Napoleon's trip to the water park, Face the Music doesn't do much with famous figures such as Jimi Hendrix (DazMann Still), Louis Armstrong (Jeremiah Craft), and Mozart (Daniel Dorr) despite the obvious potential.

It's certainly not a deal-breaker for the movie, but it would've been nice for such a long-gestating script to offer up a creative twist on what we've already seen.

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