Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure is celebrating its 35th anniversary in 2024, having released in February 1989.

Whenever I watch time-travel movies, I find myself yelling at the screen a lot.

You know who the greatest time travelers in moviesactuallyare?

Marty McFly: has all the time in the world, is still too late.

Bill S. Preston, Esq.

and Ted “Theodore” Logan, specifically in Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure.

And Bill and Ted’s mastery of causality isn’t on display at all for most of the movie.

So-crates and the other historical figures Bill and Ted recruit don’t require much convincing, generally.

That’s when Ted has one of the most incredible flashes of time traveler inspiration in all of moviedom.

Bill and Ted understand nonlinear causality so well that they basically will those keys into existence.

A fax appears at a key moment, instructing them to duck to avoid one officer.

Considering the strange things afoot at the Circle K, Bill and Ted handle the whole situation remarkably well.

Sometimes, it’s possible to go the other way, with characters who “get” time travel.

Sometimes, you have Bill S. Preston, Esq.

and Ted “Theodore” Logan.

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