Bill and Ted are high school buddies starting a band. They are also about to fail their history class—which means Ted would be sent to military school—but receive help from Rufus, a traveller from a future where their band is the foundation for a perfect society. With the use of Rufus' time machine, Bill and Ted travel to various points in history, returning with important figures to help them complete their final history presentation.
Science Fiction, Adventure, Comedy
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What kind of time-travel story is this?
Temporal events and their consequences run throughout the story.
Meets the archive’s time-travel criteria. The mechanism is classified as Mechanical.
Why the archive makes this assessment (spoilers)
Collecting historical figures across many eras and exploiting temporal causality drive the whole adventure.
A time machine carries the students through history to collect historical figures.
Titan combines the archive’s quality, audience and legacy base with the significance of time travel. It is an index, not a score out of 100, and is distinct from the FMV archive’s scoring model.
Partial inputs flag incomplete source metadata. Provisional weighting flags a time-travel assessment that remains uncertain; it receives no additional confidence penalty.
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Cast: Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, George Carlin, Terry Camilleri, Dan Shor
25 cataloged editions. Narrow by format, then check region, audio and subtitles. Missing specifications mean unknown, not absent.
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4K UHD
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure 4K (1989)
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Release date
Oct 11, 2022
Studio
Shout Factory
Resolution
Native 4K (2160p)
Region / playback
4K Blu-ray: Region free
Discs
4K Ultra HD | Blu-ray Disc | Single disc (1 BD-100)