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

3. The Surprisingly Solid Production Values

Face the Music was clearly produced on a small budget - $25 million, in fact - and to that end the trailers mostly suggested that it would be yet another comedy sequel with no sense of visual style beyond that of an overlit, garish sitcom.

Thankfully that actually isn't the case, and while you shouldn't expect first-rate visual effects from the movie, it actually oozes a surprising amount of style for such a modestly-priced film.

The sequence where Bill and Ted end up in Hell is especially remarkable from both an effects and design perspective, and the makeup effects deployed on the various alternate Bill and Teds - especially their buff, imprisoned future selves - are genuinely impressive.

There are certainly moments where the green screen compositing draws attention to itself, but compared to something as visually hideous as Dumb and Dumber To, it's clear that a lot of effort and care has been put into wringing every last penny from the budget.