As the dudes return after 30 years, the world is a very different place and their quest to save humanity doesn’t look quite so excellent any more
What a strange time for Bill and Ted to return from self-imposed purgatory, the best part of three decades on from their last turn in the spotlight in Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey (1991). Strange, not just because their wide-eyed, rocker/slacker shtick seems weirdly inconsequential in the era of
Coronavirus and Black Lives Matter, but also because star Keanu Reeves needs a moment in the sun rather less than he did 10 years ago, thanks in large part to the success of the deeply average yet undoubtedly entertaining John Wick movies.
Reeves is already in the midst of a comeback, the world has already woken up to the fact that it rather missed him, and Bill and Ted Face the
music is unlikely to change much about the future direction of his mid-to-late-era career. We’ll still be getting a new Matrix movie, with Reeves returning as Neo, for instance. And one imagines John Wick will still be taking down
Russian bad guys well into his twilight years. Nonetheless, here we are with a new Bill and Ted movie.