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Bill & Ted's Most Embarrassing Odyssey
This was awful. I should've known because it was so predictable:
Tarnish your heroes as sad, embarrassing losers who were bound to fail
Turn their sons into daughters who've inherited their personalities and their destinies
Bring back all the faces you recognized from the old films
Hire humorless writers to write a rushed screenplay devoid of fun
Spend most of your budget on CGI and special effects
Make a mockery out of Jesus Christ and think people will laugh*
This is Hollywood. This is every terrible sequel or reboot you've already seen from the past 5 years: Ghostbusters 2016, The Force Awakens, The Last Jedi, and Terminator: Dark Fate. It has all the same hallmarks and critical flaws. It is not original, it is without wit or comedic timing (the funniest scene they could manage was Bill and Ted walking around with buckets on their head), it is blatantly dismissive and disrespectful of what came before while proudly flaunting a misguided theme, and it reduces what could otherwise be a genuinely diverse cast of fun, historical figures going on an adventure into a shallow band of tokens getting strung along plot that literally goes to Hell.
I don't care how many white historical people were in the first Bill and Ted, so I'm not impressed with you trying to balance it out by having four black people, one white person, and one Asian person in your band across time. I like Jimi Hendrix, Louie B Armstrong and Mozart, but more importantly, I know who they are. I don't know who Ling Lun or Kid Cudi are, and I don't care. The fact that you had to have Ling Lun be a woman instead of a man emphasizes what I already knew: you just wanted more female and minority representation in Hollywood. Female Bill and Ted, Female Rufus, (White) Female Great One. That's your agenda, and I don't care. All I cared about was Bill and Ted 3 being a fun movie and a final love letter, and that's not what I got. What I got was a pointless festival of cringe across time and space.
Don't buy it or rent it if you're expecting a good time. If you must see it, it's not worth $20 and you're not missing anything. You're much better off re-watching the first two movies.
*I didn't forget the fact you used BCE instead of BC throughout the movie. If you're going to have Christ in your movie, just commit to the bit and use BC, you godless hacks.
August 2020 · Movies and TV · verified purchase