Bill & Ted Face the Music
Orion Pictures | Release Date (Streaming): August 28, 2020 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
65
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Generally favorable reviews based on 41 Critic Reviews
Positive:
27
Mixed:
12
Negative:
2
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
The Observer (UK)Wendy IdeSep 22, 2020
This slapdash movie, with its big-hearted, puppyish positivity, might not save the world but it will surely lift the spirits. Read full review
60
The GuardianPeter BradshawSep 15, 2020
It’s amiably amusing, and Bill and Ted’s Peter Pannish inability to accept the ageing process is enjoyably surreal, with a weird tinge of not-entirely-intentional tragedy. Read full review
60
Total FilmKevin HarleyAug 29, 2020
A last, cheering hurrah from two dudes. Read full review
60
EmpireAl HornerAug 28, 2020
Reeves and Winter look like they’re having a blast getting the band back together in a fun but forgettable time-travelling comedy. Neither bodacious nor bogus. Read full review
60
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzAug 27, 2020
Bill & Ted Face the Music is sweet and hopeful and, of course, kind of stupid, but that’s a big part of the point. Read full review
60
Screen RantSandy SchaeferAug 27, 2020
Face the Music is clearly a passion project for the minds behind Bill & Ted, and it results in a sequel that coasts by on its goofy humor and heart. Read full review
58
Original-CinKim HughesAug 29, 2020
Even I found the film’s 90-minute running time draining, its story needlessly, maddeningly convoluted. I also lamented missed opportunities for in-jokes, sly sub-references, even guerilla fourth-wall demolition hijinks. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubKatie RifeAug 27, 2020
The Bill & Ted movies derive much of their humor from the blending of extremely low and extremely high stakes. Face The Music kind of blows it on the former: For all the preaching about the importance of togetherness and unity, the film mostly keeps its fiftysomething stars and their kids apart. Which is a shame. Read full review
50
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliSep 3, 2020
This isn’t a good movie in the conventional sense of the word but it may hit the sweet spot for those who have declared their affection for the slacker musicians originated by Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter more than 30 years ago. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleBob StraussAug 27, 2020
Any movie that celebrates the power of music, friendship, family and all of that scientific stuff Kid Cudi keeps jabbering about has got to be somewhat welcome at this particular point in the space-time continuum, right?...Oh, and stay past the closing credits for a little extra excellence. Read full review
50
Screen DailyTim GriersonAug 27, 2020
This fitfully funny comedy — in which they must come up with the perfect song to stop reality from folding in on itself — offers little beyond nostalgia for an onscreen friendship that was once far more excellent. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperAug 27, 2020
The result is just a bigger, louder, more special effects-laden extension of a franchise that skated on pretty thin ice the first two times around. Read full review
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