Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey

Saw Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey (Thanks Chris!) It was practically perfect in every way. It starts out alright, gets good, and then better. There's all these awesome little things to notice, like Death being aghast at the girlfriends almost dying (in fact, almost everything involving Death is hilarious and adorable. The fact that he's the Death from The Seventh Seal and has (I assume) a Swedish accent is just icing on the cake (a cake which is already like 90% frosting anyway,)) the evil granny in the awesome German-expressionist hell capering (capering!) towards our heroes, the flat, bored, Midwestern accents of the seance-goers (and that their magic actually works!), the bit where Bill and Ted ask their girlfriends to "marry us," etc etc. The whole thing is just great. There was never a scene where I was bored or even slightly grumpy. I was a bit annoyed at the lame clowning of Evil Robot Bill and Ted, but this only made them all the more delightfully hate-able. The overall effect should have been overwhelming and addling, but it somehow never gets as exhausting as, say, Time Bandits (which I only bring up because it's another adventure-type movie (which I have great affection for.)) I don't know why. Pacing I guess. It keeps managing to top itself. It has absolutely none of the oh-so-clever Swiss watch about it (I naively imagine the story could have been made up via a game of drunken telephone at a party, but then it wouldn't be so cleverly paced, now would it?) instead it bumbles amiably along like two awesome fools who just want to party on and maybe save the world. Highly recommend (but see Excellent Adventure first, of course.) Awesome.