Review Time: this film is good.
Fundamental elements: there are words
and numbers on screen, voice-over elements, cultural elements, background
music, yes and no to subtitles being used when another language is being used,
interpreter elements, quick moving effects, time jumps and place jumps.
Movement; it
is quick paced has it rotates or jumps [depending where you are; is depending
what you get at that specific time.]
Back stories/Storyline: the viewers meet
Rufus/Carlin has he breaks the fourth-wall; he gives us this information on the
future, but more importantly that our lead partnership of Bill S. Preston
Esquire/Bill/also called William by Rufus/Winter & Ted Theodore
Logan/Ted/Reeves cannot be split up, because if we are future as we know it
will not happen [there is this square that appears in the same of Bill &
Ted, so it feels like an old-fashioned news report, yes if you are very certain
age you will know what I mean] and Rufus does break the breaks the fourth-wall
again at the end of the film.
There are
other back stories discussed in the dialogue exchanges, a Napoleon narrative
for some of this film and monologues/speech from Bill or Ted whilst they are
giving this history report. The storyline it is straightforward, but good and
the viewers will have this experience of going full circle with this title.
Artistic visions/Action sequences/Comedy level/Blooper: watching this massive golden like Crystal shape [coming down from an
opening in the ceiling during the opening credits] being later on constructed
into this Telephone Box with a science-fiction twist; a Telephone Box; I know
this is a strange concept for the younger generations, but these were used
before mobile telephones and yes even a fax machine is used in this film to
deliver a message to Bill & Ted with wild horses heads on it, because their
brand-name is the Wyld Stallyns But moving on The Circuits of History [this
will make much more better sense when you watch this project,] yes they are
looking a little bit vintage by today's standards, but they are still looking
good, the futuristic elements; such as the costumes and their accessories and
set designs all of that is good as well and there are instruments being played
at some points in this project.
Yes the
action and comedy components work off one another sometimes in this title or it
is in the dialogue exchanges but back to action and comedy you can see here are
two examples; there is this bar fight or it could be when Bill & Ted are
play fighting with these swords whilst they are in this old-fashioned complete
body armour/head/face re-enacting a scene from Star Wars [more specifically
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back 1980.]
But there is
one extremely outdated piece of comedy which I can't say but I know it is in
this project, I can describe it but that is about it; it is a reference to
somebody's sexuality and it is a no-no in today's world
Blooper; it
is where we have Bill & Ted [two pairs of them from two different
timelines] playing air guitar and this is the only time that they have to make
the sound effect. I have to see this as a blooper, because usually, the sound
effects usually kick in when they are playing air guitar [once again if you are
of the younger generations playing air guitar with sound effects of a electric
guitar is their thing.]
Character developments/Performances: the character developments are good minus one
thing; there is a bit of coming-of-age between Bill S. Preston
Esquire/Bill/Winter & Ted Theodore Logan/Ted/Reeves in the final stages of
the film, I also have to see the extremely outdated comedy element as outdated
character developments as well, if one were wasn't said I wouldn't be bringing
it up.
But moving on these two characters are not the
brightest bulbs when you flip the switch, but somehow minus Ted forgetting to
wind his watch and Bill pressing the wrong number, they seem to have grasped
one of the pluses of time travel easily and there is good chemistry/a little
bit of friction between these two in a scene and good chemistry between these
two and Rufus/Carlin, all the rest do good as well, but either breaking the
fourth-wall [singly or with our main partnership & other characters] or our
main partnership or this trio they deserve to be highlighted for being the
driving force behind bringing this film to life.
This film receives: 6/10, after some time thinking about it I chose
to stay with my original mark, because it is what it is, it doesn't claim to be
anything else and because of the trio of performers which I have already
mentioned in this review, this mark is a fair outcome.
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updated: Saturday
01/02/2020
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