Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure | Movie Reaction | First Time Watching
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John Wick is an alternate time line where Ted did get sent to military school, and Bill went to Santa Carla and got turned into a vampire.
I've heard the John Wick one but not the Bill one before. That's awesome!
@@megafan2000
I claim credit for that part then!
Now I want to watch the movie where formerly-Ted John Wick meets vampire Bill.
You mean Santa Cruz! That is where it was filmed!
a Bazillion internet points for u .....
Crying while saying "it's so whimsical!" is a great encapsulation of why these videos are so great.
I couldn't have said that better myself!
I couldn't have said that better myself!
Deserves a shirt tbh
“ can we watch it again?” has got to be the best conclusion ever!!
But only if the answer is “Yes!”
never thought id see someone become emotional from Bill and Ted amazing
my unofficial channel slogan is just “hi I cry a lot”
@@hellonikkilu Okay but that future scene legit deserves it. They unwittingly stumble into the utopia that they themselves will create. It's wonderful.
I wish I was joking when I say reading this comment just made me tear up AGAIN 🫠
@@hellonikkilu Your reactions are so genuine; I would expect no less. Keep doing what you’re doing. 😊
This is the most triumphant reaction!
Totally! 🎸
Party on Nikkis dudes!
I've said this elsewhere, and I'll repeat it here: the world could (and has) done far, far worse than base itself around the personal philosophy of two incredibly sweet, well-meaning guys who live their lives entirely in-line with the idea that you should always be good to everyone, and enjoy life as much as you can, while also being the best friends ever. I'll take that, spontaneous air guitar included, over the Machiavellian schemes and warfare of all the oh-so-"smart" world leaders in history. :D
I think I was decades older when It finally dawned on me that Bill says "Naw, just got a minor Oedipal complex." (reference to Missy) when Freud offers him the couch at the end.
Same here I think I just kind of ignored that line until I was much older.
Ya that was definitely an “ohhhhhh I get it now”
I loved this movie when I was a kid. I didn't understand that line and asked my mother what an Oedipal complex was. She said "Don't worry about it, just watch your movie" lol
Same here.
He meant eating disorder.,…edible complex.
To this day, I always see Ted whenever Keanu plays any role. Even John Wick.
Yeah, you can tell how old you are by what era of Keanu you reference. I remember watching point break for the first time and going "whoa!" All the time. I knew he was going to kill it in the matrix because I had seen all his movies up to that point and I knew he was an underrated actor.
I see Shane Falco 😂
In The Matrix when he says “I know kung-fu” I keep waiting for an “EXCELLENT!” followed by an air guitar solo.
All three movies are phenomenal, and deserve a reaction......
Yes!
Agree!
I was so pleasantly surprised with the Face the Music one. The actress who plays Ted's daughter got his mannerisms down pat. There were times I thought it actually *was* Keanu!
I have never been more excited to see a reaction in my entire life.
This did NOT disappoint. I hope you guys have a Patreon, because I HAVE to see the entire reaction.
Seriously RAN to watch this reaction!
@@TheDailyArtist I watched it twice! lol
Nikki is the greatest :)
Should also watch Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey.... yes way.
It is most non heinous...
@@havok6280 Spoilers. They are most triumphant.
Excellent 😂
It'll be the Death of you ;) "Best two out of three?"
Bill & Ted Face the Music is worthwhile also.
At the end of the day what makes this movie so special, even beyond the performances, the music...etc...etc... Is the wholesome and quite simple core message. "Be excellent to each other".
And back in the day, people actually were for the most part. One of the reasons us older people still have such nostalgia for the time period. It really was a different time, as much so as any time period they travelled to in the movie. It is almost as jarring to see the differences today compared to then as it would be to be stuck in the wild west. No exaggeration.
@@Bancheis "And back in the day, people actually were for the most part."
Yes. Yes they were. But don't get me started about the power of divisive politics, I'll be here all day.😏👍
AND "Party on, dudes"
@@Bancheis Sure. With clear evidence showing your chance to die in a war, or by disease, has shrunk decade by decade, and life expectancies have gone up, let's all forget all the bad shit in the past and just reminisce about the good.
@@rikk319 the thing is that there were problems in the past, for sure, technology was worse so you were more likely to die if things that can be treated, the world was less peaceful, there were other problems as well that are a lot less bad these days. Things got better over time, I'm certainly not disputing that. However, having lived through that time the issues were nowhere near as bad as people who live now make them out to be.
The issue is that over time as we had less and less to worry about we started looking for things to worry about. When you don't have any really bad things to worry about suddenly rather minor things become major. Humans like to complain and focus on the negative. So things that would have been so minor that no one would have complained about them 30 years ago are now major issues affecting our society. It is the worrying about these things that are causing more problems than the issues themselves. So, the perception that everything is getting worse keeps increasing the better things get.
That having been said, not everything got better.
8:46 You're probably aware that "All we are is dust in the wind" is a lyric from a 1977 song by Kansas, but what you may not know is that Socrates' reply -- "Like sands in the hourglass, so are the days of our lives" -- is actually the tagline for a soap opera called Days of Our Lives that's still aired today! 🤦♂🤦♂🤦♂
Didn't know it's still on air. I was feeling old that she didn't recognize it. Even though I and others were not into soaps we knew that intro back in the day.
I remember seeing Socrates reply in the theaters and just laughing my ass off 😂
@gdiaz8827 I couldn't find it in my T.V. listings when I researched my answer, but then learned that NBCUniversal had shifted it from broadcast NBC to their streaming service Peacock in late 2022. As of today, it has been renewed through autumn 2025.
There were alot of historical things related to the historical figures such as Joan had her troops do stretching and work outs before battles, Napoleon brought ice cream to France after having found it elsewhere, the phallic symbology with Freud and probably other things that I don't know or that I missed. Also I am not REALLY into history this stuff is just stuff that I read or heard somewhere.
@@MarvelX42 Yeah, the positioning of the corndog... 😆
Napoleon at a waterpark wasn't just a random idea; his biggest historical defeat was at the Battle of Waterloo (thus the waterpark's name)!
And the fact that Bill and Ted made that connection shows that they actually did learn some history.
@@voxorox I think you're giving them too much credit. I think they just thought that if they were stranded in San Dimas the place they would want to go would be the local water park, and had no idea of the name connection. (And Napoleon, who was clearly still in charge of France at the time they snatched him, wouldn't have any idea what Waterloo meant, either - unless it was the battle of Waterloo that they snatched him from.)
@@hkpew I think if they liked the water park Waterloo and it came up in history class, it's probably the one thing they WOULD remember :)
If a movie could be a spiritual animal this would be yours I loved your reaction
I want to frame this comment. 100000% true.
@@hellonikkilu Love your energy Nikki do you have a patron that we can follow cuz we would all love to see full length reactions at least I would
I think you might be my new favorite reactor! my face hurts from smiling and i can't wait for Bogus Journey!
This movie has one of the best soundtracks of the 80’s. Every song is a banger and it still holds up in 2024.
Bill and Ted were so excellent, they got their own TV cartoon show. I remember watching it on Saturday mornings when I was a kid.
and a really bad live action syndicated sitcom
And a totally awesome 13-issue comic series by Evan Dorkin...probably the best of all the other Bill & Ted media.
14:11 That's not just any Joan of Arc, it's Jane Wiedlin of Arc!
She’s really cute imo
"These guys are *proper* idiots..."
(10 minutes later)
"I'm sorry, they're *brilliant*"
(to be clear: not making fun; both statements are 100% accurate)
"What mall is this?"
That was Metrocenter Mall in Phoenix, Arizona. It was the mall I grew up in as a child in the 80s and 90s. It did indeed have an indoor ice skating rink.
Yes! A lot of malls in California, where the film supposedly takes place, also had skating rinks in the ‘80s and ‘90s. It was such a blessing on hot summer days!
@@moonfisher And such a disaster for the environment! All those CFCs used to freeze the water. What a happy and carefree time it was lol
They just demolished the mall Last year and the Circle K also last year
@@IcarusDrowning-gz8se No... No. No.
@@prs149That mall is where I recovered from heat stroke
I could have watched a whole movie with Billy the Kid and Socrates.
This movie, no jokes, instilled in me at a young age a philosophy that I have carried with me my entire life. It may sound corny, but it's real and it's true to me.
Be excellent to each other.
These guys proved to me as a kid that you don't have to be smart to be good. You just have to be kind, and not give up.
I saw this movie at a "time travel" film festival at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. The director came out and mentioned this was recommended by his children for the festival. He watched it and said, "It's definitely a time travel movie, and there definitely is a generational gap between me and my children."
Napoleon was he guy in the tub throughout The Truman Show.
Socrates was the waiter that brought Bill Murray an eyeball in Scrooged.
“Be excellent to each other!” Words to live by!
Party on
"Like sands of the hourglass, these are the days of our lives" - Socrates, and the old soap opera Days of Our Lives.
"Strange things are afoot at the Circle K" was me and my friends way of saying shit's gone sideways in high school.
Favorite subtle joke is when the girl laugh at Freud, his corn dog goes limp. Psychology joke!
I may have actually punched the air with delight when I saw this thumbnail in my feed. Your comment at the end is dead on - this film can get lumped in with oafish gross-out teen movies, but it is so pure and joyful. Bill and Ted are genuinely warm, kindly, lovable dimwits and I will defend the Bill & Ted Cinematic Universe to my last breath. Proceed immediately to Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey!
God, I loved this reaction. Perfect end-of-a-crappy-week viewing - thank you!
For those of us who watched Keanu land and become a star, THIS is what he was for the first seven or eight years of his career. He was not an action star at all; in fact, I think most people would have laughed at the idea. The image people had of him was of a very pretty, very vapid eternal teenager. (It wasn't until well into his thirties that he even began to look his age.) He was in Dracula, and people giggled. He did Shakespeare, and people rolled their eyes. He was very popular, but nobody took him seriously, which is rather interesting, as during the first few years, he was seen as an intriguing young talent. But then Bill & Ted came out, and that was all she wrote. He was a himbo from then on - in fact, the term "himbo" was coined to describe Keanu. (To illustrate, when The Matrix first came out I thought it was amazing and started getting my friends to come see it. Every time, without fail, they would say, "But it's got _Keanu Reeves_ in it!" I'd reply, "I know, I know, but trust me, you will NOT regret this!" Even at that late date, people expected him not to deliver.)😅
Fun fact: the waiters that bring the ice cream out to Napoleon and Duncan are the writers of all 3 Bill& Ted movies!
Joan of Arc was played by Jane Wiedlin, who was a guitarist in the band The Go-Go's.
Strange things are afoot at the Circle K.
I was thrilled 35 years later when we finally got a local circle k so I could say this line.
@@GD-tt6hl I used to live by one...every time i went LOL
Imagine us all at the time, watching the Bill & Ted movies, Parenthood.... and suddenly in Speed Keanu is short haired and acting all serious! It still feels weird to me, this is his real nature! :D
Bill and Ted were created by Ed Solomon, who brought us MIB, Now You See Me and Charlie's Angels (2000) and Chris Matheson, son of legendary sci-fi author Richard Matheson.
This movie has no business being as good as it was. Every performer brought the A game! ☺️
I firmly believe that Keanu took his character from this movie to heart and it infirmed much of his development as an adult!
I'm wondering what Frood Dude would make of your little slip: infirmed or informed? 😜
Seriously though, no offense intended. I just thought it was funny. Sincere apologies if it was taken the wrong way. Party on friend 😄
@@IcarusDrowning-gz8se I typed that on my phone and absolutely SUCK at these tiny touch buttons! 😅
This is the perfect encapsulation of the 80s and sent the decade out on a high note.
Can't wait until this channel explodes in popularity! It deserves way more than 15,000 subscribers!
The leader in the future was played by Clarence Clemmons - who was Bruce Springsteen's sax player in the E Street Band. Joan of Arc is played by Jane Wieldin, famous for being part of the Go Gos. The original script had the guys time traveling in a '69(Excellent!) Chevy Van . But this was made not too long after Back to the Future came out, and they didn't want to be compared to it, so they switched to the phone booth. (the film came out in 89, but was made in 87, and took two years to find a release) Clearly they were counting on not too many Americans being familiar with Doctor Who back then.
And the other two leaders in the future were played by Martha Davis, of The Motels, and Fee Waybill of The Tubes. And it's Jane Weidlin--I know because I crushed on her hard during my teen years :P
Made it into American version of Doctor Who, both time trime travelers in booths
Everyone in 1999 were confused watching Ted Logan in the Matrix
I don't remember not understanding what an actor is. Keanu had been in Speed and Point Break and other stuff before that.
I do remember being confused by John Harker's accent in Dracula, though.
Can't wait to see if she cries in this one. I doubt it, though. 😂
ya know… you’d think…
Annnnnd there it is 😂
Lol 12:27
@hellonikkilu this reaction didn't disappoint at all. Thanks for the amazing content, and please keep them coming!
Neo was channeling Ted during the Jump Program, when he looked over the edge and said "Whoa"
I truly believe the premise of this movie - that music will be the only thing that could bring about world peace.
The best acting Keanu Reeves has ever done.
Love Socrates in this. His face when he takes off his disguise and his excitement at driving the wagon, like a little child.
Napoleon was my favorite, but he was a close second. his face after the flash of his mugshot killed me 😂
They did a great job casting the historical personages.
19:13 - It's METROCENTER, in Phoenix, AZ at it's absolute peak. Sadly it was demolished last year. This film became such a part of the mall's history (and Phoenix Metro in general) that before they tore the last of it down, they hosted a screening of BILL & TED on one of the walls. They'd done the same a couple years earlier when the Circle K changed hands and became an independent bodega. That showing was most triumphant, I can assure you.
Man I had, almost, forgotten how much fun that movie was. It really drove it home watching it with someone who, not only, had never seen it before but was able to take it at face value and appreciate it for what it was, instead of picking it apart. I hope you will do Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey next.
Genuinely heartwarming. Thanks for the memories. It is such a shame that today's Hollywood is more like a psychological warfare unit, rather than making stories such as this.
I only just started, but this is the most excited I've been for a reaction in months. This is such a comfort movie for me, and it seems like a match made in heaven. I am psyched.
Edit: Hell yes, I'm so glad you liked it!! There's a sequel that is very worth watching, though not quite as good as this one, then a third one that came out a couple of years ago that is fun, but in my opinion totally unecessary.
I think what I love so much about this movie is that it's a stoner movie, but it has no actual stoners in it. They made these two leads who are truly totally pure and well intentioned. They're so dumb, but still somehow pretty solid role models. It's impressive. This reaction made me so happy, and I hope to see you again with the sequel: Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey.
If you love this one... you will REALLY LOVE the 2nd one "Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey" That one is my favorite out of the 3 movies! So Hilarious! Hope you watch that one soon!!
Teacher: So, you're saying that Napoleon was a short dead dude?
Nikki: He's not wrong.
I'm dead.
“Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives” was the intro to the daytime soap opera “Days of Our Lives”
The only reason Bill and Ted think that Rufus' name is Rufus, is because Bill and Ted told them so. He never introduced himself to them.
Keanu Reeves was my first crush ever because of this movie!!!😆😆😆
"Strange things are afoot at the Circle K" is uttered at least once a week in our house. And by that I mean I find an excuse to use it whenever possible.
This was my favorite movie as a kid. As someone who loves sci fi, history, and rock music, this checked a lot of boxes for me.
This is what reaction videos are supposed to be. I love this movie and think it's highly entertaining. Watching it again with you and seeing you enjoy it so much ratchets up my own enjoyment. Thanks again for the great content and the MANY smiles.
When someone mentions that Keanu is breathtaking, they should also shout that he's excellent too.
I was 13 when this released, we saw it opening night. The Mall scene with the “play with me” solo cranking is still legendary
Steve Vai with the guitar… iirc
@@FromRussiaWithLuv007 nuno bettencourt bro.
@@ruxxell czcams.com/video/Gbb4sUExcH8/video.htmlsi=EATVjFC8WdKTfZHG
One used in the movie is a different version
The scene where they meet the future council is like a glimpse of a perfect world. Easily one of my personal top twenty scenes in film history.
Please watch the sequel! You will love it! Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey.
35 years later, and I still use the “Strange things are afoot at the Circle K,” with my dad every once and awhile.
And I love to sit around listening to Dave Beeth Oven, while I read So Crates and Sigmund Frood.
Another golden video! My face is sore from laughing and smiling!
As my grandmother would say, "You are a 'hoot'!" (That means fun. I am so old)
"Yeah, make Genghis Khan clean the toilets." 🤣
Seeing the title of this one and just knowing you would absolutely love it. Bogus Journey next?
I saw this in the theater in college. When Freud walked up with the corn dog my friends and I screamed, especially when he lowered it after the girls blew him off. Jane Wiedlin (of The Go-Go's), my manic pixie dream girl, played Joan of Arc.
Keanu Reeves came a long way since this film! This movie's sequel is also great!
Station!
In my opinion bill and Ted’s bogus journey is even better.
Yep
Those boys are just smart enough to know that they don't know anything, which in my opinion is why it's so enjoyable. I was really happy to see this reaction video. it was Your reaction to this movie on Tiktok that got me following you. Looking forward to your next video Nikki
Don’t forget that Caesar was a salad dressing dude! 😂
After you already reacted to The Princess Bride and the Back to the Future Trilogy, which are my favorite movies, I was wondering what movies you could react to next that would be almost as enjoyable to watch. And then, you did this video! The Bill & Ted movies are awesome and you are my favorite reaction channel! 🙂
Lot's of great cameos in this movie. The President of the Future was played by Clarence Clemmons, Bruce Springsteen's sax player.
(Unfortunately, after his passing, it was revealed that he was a chronic abuser)
Joan of Arc was played by Jane Weidlin of The Go-Go's
In many ways , I’m like both bill and Ted . When I was released from the nervous hospital, I too believed I had met napoleon and had tea with Mussolini and ate pizza with Eddie Van Halen. I was a captain of industry but PCP and trans-Fatty chicken tenders made me literally snap . I think it was all in the teachers head and none of it really happened at all. A great episode and wonderful film!!
I’ve watched this movie religiously since it came out. It’s nice to see someone fall in love with this movie.
I watched this movie ALL THE TIME on VHS as a kid. And while not quite as perfectly executed, the sequel is just as whimsical, and the third movie is a hell of a lot of fun!
Ever since this film came out, it has been on my top ten films to watch when you just need to smile and regain hope for the future.
I have really enjoyed these reactions. I remember watching this this Film in the Theaters.
Films to add to your list (if you haven’t already seen them)Updated
1 Short Circuit
2 Batteries Not Included
3 The Burbs
4 Police Academy!!!
5 Ghostbusters
6 Labyrinth
7 Little Monsters
OMG I would LOVE to see the reaction to Short Circuit and Batteries Not Included. Actually all of those to be honest. Great choices. Maybe even throw in that Brendan Fraser movie Blast from the Past.
Track down their screen test. They do the whole Van Halen speech. It's amazing how quickly Alex and Keanu fell into character.
One more thing, Nikki. Since you’ve been watching time travel movies, you gotta see TIME AFTER TIME. It’s got Mary Steenburgen in it and it has a poignant, make-you-cry ending.
Good suggestion. :)
so y’all are just dead set on making me constantly cry, I see how it is 😂
@@hellonikkilu Time After Time is one of my all-time favorite movies. I'll add Somewhere In Time (Christopher Reeve & Jane Seymour), they make a fantastic double feature pairing. And while Time After Time MIGHT not make you cry... Somewhere In Time makes even hard men cry. :T
And if you love time travel movies in general, but also Monty Python, another whimsical 80s movie is Time Bandits.
Napolean was a bit of a neat freak when it came to uniforms - it was Napolan who put buttons on the sleeves of dress jackets so the soldiers couldn't wipe their noses on their sleeves leaving the white residue behind.
BE EXCELLENT TO EACH OTHER, AND PARTY ON, DUDES!
What a beautiful reaction. You were so moved by the future's reverence for Bill & Ted.
Bill and Ted are perfect versions of "positive masculinity." Not toxic. Never abrasive. Always supportive. And yeah, they're a little dumb. But it's charming!
This ……. was a MOST pleasantly surprising reaction today lol.
I found it so ironic that I became a hardcore Whovian about 20 years _after_ this movie then going back to it and hearing "This booth is _smaller_ on the inside!" (The writers insist they never heard of Doctor Who, and it was barely on PBS and a year away from being canceled, but the fact that they came up with a telephone booth while Doctor Who has the TARDIS, same shape, infinite on the inside, and had _that_ line, I feel like they had to have had it on in the background one day or something...)
Now she should watch Grosse Point Blank, when the kids in Bill & Ted's graduating class go back home for their 10th reunion, with John Cusack playing a prototype John Wick. (He didn't kill three men with a pencil, but he did kill a man with a pen. Probably not the same pen he got in "Say Anything".)
The Rufus Paradox: Rufus never says his own name. Future Bill says “Trust this guy Rufus” and then when Present Bill travels back to that same moment he just repeats what he heard the first time. So Bill leaned Rufus’ name because he told it to himself.
When we were kids, whenever we drove out to San Bernardino County to visit our relatives, whenever we got to the junction of the 10 and the 210 and saw the sign for San Dimas, my sister and I would always say in unison, "San Dimas? EXCELLENT!"
us too, and bonus there was a circle K one block from my place...every single time. There is something afoot at the CIrcle K....😁
in my opinion Keanu Reeves channeled his best inner "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" Sean Penn for the Character Ted.
Movies like these. We made for "EXCELLENT" people like you!!
I LOVE IT!!
Golden rule of time travel, if your movie mentions Eddie van halen you get to write the rules for time travel, and golden rule 2 if your time machine is a phone booth it is bigger on the inside
The utter joyous endless disbelief. Most excellent.
Bill and Ed is the funniest show saying it’s so whimsical great reaction
Waiting to see the sequel! BILL AND TEDS BOGUS JOURNEY!
The actress who played Joan of Arc is a member of The Go-gos and also The Hex Girls.
One of the futuristic council members is Clarence Clemons, famous saxophone player for Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band.
And the other two are Martha Davis of The Motels and Fee Waybill of The Tubes.
She ought to check out Fast Times at Ridgemont High. I think Spicoli, in a way, inspired Bill and Ted.