'Bill and Ted save the universe': Keanu Reeves' lack of comic vis in an insufferable sequel to a 1990s hit

The late sequels of short-term films are usually not a great idea: the times of cinema have evolved, viewers have changed, and fans of the first or first installments have grown, at least the smartest.

(Stephen Herek, 1989) and

(Peter Hewitt, 1991) were the typical exultant bullshit of a great decade, which was almost coming to an end, for youth cinema and its rales in the early nineties: simple and kaffir, especially the second.

Science fiction comedies about time travel and music, without pretense of anything.

This critic was never too amused, but his success is understood in certain circles: in addition to in theaters, in the popular culture of the video stores of the time.

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It has taken ten years to raise

since 2010, when the first news arrived that a sequel was being prepared (already late) in which its young protagonists were middle-aged men and they had to rescue the universe from their death thanks to the composition of a great song. But the matter has taken so long to mount, and it is understood after seeing the results, that for example Keanu Reeves, who never had a great comic vision, is already a 57-year-old guy playing the fool in a story of fully youthful aspirations.

Dean Parisot, director of another parodic science fiction comedy,

is in charge this time of putting into (debatable) images an insufferable nonsense in which questions accumulate, although with one certainly basic: why a movie about music has so little music and, when it finally appears and is supposed to be great because it saves the world, is it so pedestrian?

BILL AND TED SAVE THE UNIVERSE

Direction: Dean Parisot.

Cast: Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, Brigette Lundy-Payne, Samara Weaving.

Platform: Movistar.

Comedy genre.

USA, 2020.

Duration: 88 minutes.