Flicks, Steve Newall
Face The Music has turned out to be better than it perhaps any right to be, recapturing the spirit of its predecessors, and might be the most fun you’ll have watching a movie this whole awful goddamn year.
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Bill & Ted Face the Music
Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter revisit Bill & Ted, nearly 30 years after Bogus Journey. The metalhead dummies are now middle-aged dads, still with dreams of making the big time with their band, the Wyld Stallyns. But, out of luck and inspiration, they get back to their time travelling ways to find the song that will set their world right and avoid the apocalypse. And how do they plan to get the track they're destined to play? By stealing it from their future selves, of course.
2020Rating: PG, Violence & coarse language92 minsUSA
ComedyFantasyScience Fiction
- Director:
- Dean Parisot ('Galaxy Quest', 'Red 2', 'Fun with Dick and Jane')
- Writer:
- Chris MathesonEd Solomon
- Cast:
- Keanu ReevesAlex WinterWilliam SadlerSamara WeavingJillian BellKristen Schaal
Bill & Ted Face the Music / Reviews
Stuff
No way is it bogus, but one can’t help feel that, with a little more fine-tuning (and Weaving and Lundy-Paine) this could have been excellent.
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Bill & Ted Face the Music is a pleasant escape for the quarantine-stricken, a sweet and entertaining romp that defies expectations by largely recapturing what worked about the series so many years later.
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Variety
On a scale of one to 10, I wouldn't say that "Face the Music" goes to 11, but it's a most excellent sequel.
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Hollywood Reporter
Despite a dicey opening, the pic should please those looking forward to it, and, with the addition of a new generation (the duo's daughters), attract a new fan or two as well.
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IndieWire
A little stupid idealism can go a long way, and "Face the Music" makes the case that morons can come together to set the world right. Talk about movie magic.
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Entertainment Weekly
Mostly, the joy comes from watching Reeves and Winter on screen, two holy fools just doing their best to bring light and love and non-heinous riffs - and remind the bleary-eyed citizens of 2020, perhaps, of a simpler, sweeter world gone by.
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The New York Times
I don't know if it made me feel young or old, but it was all in all a most non-bogus experience.
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CNN
Besides, at a moment when saving reality as we know it doesn't sound quite so far-fetched, there's something mildly reassuring about watching "Bill & Ted" blithely joined in rocking on, even if true excellence eludes them.
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New York Post
The plot... rips off the original - which was thin to begin with - and makes it worse.
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A.V. Club
The film simply takes too long to find its focus. It's not the most excellent of outcomes, but not a total bummer, either.
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Slant Magazine
The film suggests that Bill and Ted's dreams of stardom, which have evolved into dreams of acceptance and expression, aren't so stupid after all.
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