Wednesday, April 2, 2008

A most triumphant return? And cereal.


Tune up your 6-string air guitars duders, the long-fabled return of San Dimas' most non-heinous time traveling rock gods still has a chance of happening, according to this article. I'm of course talking about Bill and Ted. And as you no doubt know, together they are... WYLD STALLYNS!

(The above linkage also confirms that the original Bill and Ted flick IS being remade with new young and virile Bill and Teds traveling through time and failing school. Which sounds cool, but if you take this post for what it's worth, it sounds non non heinous. Atomic Gorillas? Ugh..)

A third installment in the series has been something of an urban legend for years, ever since Bill S Preston Esquire and Ted Theodore Logan conquered Satan, death, "the evil robot us's" and their complete lack of musical ability to save the world with their music in Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey. But then Keanu Reeves totally renounced sequels until he started traveling with phone booths again in The Matrix. And then there was like no script that anyone involved liked anyway.

My mind is already steaming. An aged Bill and Ted? How could this play out? Would they still be listening to Poison and Winger? Would they still be leading the world by singing Kiss anthems? Or would they have gone indie-or worse-emo? Would they mind that Wayne and Garth of Wayne's World were the 90's Nirvana grunge Jam ripoff of them? Well, if Indiana Jones can do it.. if The Police can do it.. if the Spice Girls can do it.. if John Rambo and Rocky Balboa can do it.. why can't Rufus and the Stallyns return most triumphantly?

Now, there are those who have stopped listening to my thoughts on movies after I told them Bill and Ted easily rank in my top favs. But what do you expect? I love any movie that deals with time travel or dudes using music to save the world. And Bill and Ted are the best of both worlds.

That's one step in the phone booth. Now, all I ask is that we bring back the cereal that none of you remember. And if you do, you're my soul mate and I have to ask where you've been all my life.

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