9.Bill & Teds Excellent Adventure(1989)
You would think that time travel would be a rich source of comedy for Hollywood, yet surprisingly the genre seems to be populated mainly with more serious commentaries on the phenomenon. Yet one film stands out like a brain cell in the Chelsea changing room:
Bill & Teds Excellent Adventure. The film that made
Keanu Reeves a star was also
Alex Winters finest hour, the pair star as Bill S. Preston Esq. and Theodore Logan whose music inexplicably is the foundation of society in the distant future. Thus we have Rufus, played by the legend that is
George Carlin travelling back in time to ensure that the titular doofuses stay together as their band Wyld Stallyns the greatest name for a band I think Ive ever heard. When Rufus discovers that the slackers are about to flunk a history exam, the consequences of which would cause the break-up of Wyld Stallyns he takes Bill and Ted on a journey through history to beef up their knowledge hilarity ensues. The time machine in the film was supposedly changed from a van as it was to close a resemblance to
Back to the Future, so instead they went with something more original a phone booth sense the sarcasm. Bill and Ted is a shining example of just what the time travel genre can do for comedy and still stands up as one of the funniest and most fondly remembered films of the last thirty years.