The very long awaited sequel to both Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure and Bogus Journey is finally here! Does it live up to expectations? In some ways, yes, in other ways not quite. If you're happy to see both Bill and Ted together trying to recapture the attitude they had in the first two movies, they sort of half-succeed at doing it, despite feeling a little awkward at them being way older now. There are some good jokes that land, but its pretty much close to impossible to recreate the magic of the first two films if you ask me. It's definitely my least favourite of the three.
That being said, Face the Music is a very easy watch and does have cool references that old fans will appreciate and notice. I wasn't the biggest fan of their daughter characters taking up almost the same amount of screentime as Bill and Ted personally, so whenever it was just them two it kind of lost me for a few minutes with them trying so hard to act like Bill and Ted. I did like the new robot character though and of course seeing old characters reappear and take part again. Make no mistake, this movie does aim for nostalgia and familiar story beats, but you know what it was an alright sequel that could have been way, way worse like Dumb and Dumber To. This at least stayed true to the tone and characters.
6/10
That being said, Face the Music is a very easy watch and does have cool references that old fans will appreciate and notice. I wasn't the biggest fan of their daughter characters taking up almost the same amount of screentime as Bill and Ted personally, so whenever it was just them two it kind of lost me for a few minutes with them trying so hard to act like Bill and Ted. I did like the new robot character though and of course seeing old characters reappear and take part again. Make no mistake, this movie does aim for nostalgia and familiar story beats, but you know what it was an alright sequel that could have been way, way worse like Dumb and Dumber To. This at least stayed true to the tone and characters.
6/10