Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012, July 25, 1991, Page 4, Image 4

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CAboveI Bill and Ted (Alex
Winter and Keanu Reeves)
prepare to lace the Grim
Reaper (Right) Death, played
by William Sadler, gets chal
lenged to a most heinous
game ol Battleship
Bill, Ted: Most excellent movie
★ ★ ★
RiII ar*i Ted Again Ale* Winter er»d
Keanu Reeves return a* Bill aixl Teel
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jmrienoe awaits
vou at your local
multiplex Those
dippv and some
how lovable nitw its
an- Imi t in Hill .inti
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venture thov travel through
tiuirv ill.m limi' Tim destine
Huns include heaven, In i! and
all | Kill) Is ill I n 'I w is 'll Hie guest
stars include the (aim Reaper
(axl and Satan
Other titan lining slightly
mistitlod, (it might have Itetlcr
Usm called Hill .nul 1'ixl Take
l Inc 1\to SI.tin Drugs) this se
i|iii'l mtvi's up all the same in
gradients that made the first
inn- suih a hit with audiences
who wotv tins! of having to on
gagi hram svnapsos when
w atching a movie
No. thov don't take drugs, hut
the film is so lar out on a limb
that it seems as d the (Unimak
rrs threw im everything weird
.mil w.H k\ thiil they could
think nf And then pnifi.ihly
wt nt In snme young nieces and
nephews lor more suggestions
This goofv stream of eon
. h i mi * "»s somehow works all
right lor the two well inten
Honed lint aimless lu st buddies
There's nothing tfi.it surprises
them or that they can't handle
Not lieiause they're great crisis
managers hut lier anise they an'
used to everything liemg over
their heads Degrees ol ahsurdi
tv an' lost to them
As in Hill mid Ted's /Are/
Ifn t Aihfntwv. tin' l Wltl
Slullvns. a k a Hill (Alex Will
ter) and Ted (Keanu Reeves) are
heroes of the world, and an evil
inventor will have none of it
He's one of those evil inventors
who wants world ixmtrul You
know the ty pe
To achieve his most heinous
goals, he sends back mtxitic
versions of tfie duo to ruin their
liv es They do so. in grand fasti
ion Sixin. through a series ot
outlandish exploits, they find
themselves face to face with
death literally
Tnim there, the film gleefully
tosses i onventional movie riiak
ing out the window in favor of
ruwdv, silly, and yes, even spir
itual scenes Spirituality Hill
and led style This isn't likely
to convert any hard-core Ixtliev.
ers ol anything else, but maybe
some fringe groups will tut con
vinced
Bill anti Ted are angered by
the tact that the\ have lieen
iteemed unworthy of inhabiting
earth any longer and alter tern
porarih escaping death, in a
manner must dead people
would have tile presence of
mind to do, they challenge the
Grim Reaper to the game of
their choice to regain their
lives The game Battleship
To further rub the joke into
the ground, more challenges are
made But in this movie, any
audience member who has
laughed so lar will hardly (are
alxiut anything like a joke lie
coming old
t he two Bill and Ted movies
are not so much him experi
ences hut a state mind. A dis
torted and fitfully funny state of
mind
By Lucas Gutman
Emeraid Contributor
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