A most excellent interview: The team behind Bill and Ted Face the Music

Enlarge / Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves reprise their iconic roles in Bill and Ted Face the Music. (credit: Orion Pictures)

Time travel becomes a family affair in Bill and Ted Face the Music, the long-awaited third film in the popular Bill and Ted comedy franchise (Amazon Video, Apple TV, Google Play, Vudu). Fans won't be disappointed: the film is most excellent, capturing that same breezy, chaotic, let's-just-have-fun-with-this madcap magic of its predecessors. That's due to a winning script by co-creators Ed Solomon and Chris Matheson and the skillful direction of Dean Parisot of Galaxy Quest fame.

We were trying to pay some homage to the original two [films] while making it feel like it was contemporary," Parisot told Ars about how he approached bringing the Bill and Ted franchise into the 21st century. "The sense of humor might be a little drier and more absurd, but that's about it."

(Some spoilers below.)

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