History Film / BillAndTedFaceTheMusic

** The mansion that Bill and Ted find their future selves in [[spoiler: actually belongs to Dave Grohl, who comes home and calls the cops on the four of them.]]

* TakeOurWordForIt: We don't hear the song that the British Bill and Ted give to the current Bill and Ted. They just say that it's amazing. While you might assume that it's because no actual song could live up to the criteria set by the film, it's actually because [[spoiler:it's really a Dave Grohl song]]. We ''do'' hear some of the song given to them by the old Bill and Ted.

* ApocalypseHow: Straight-up Class Z very nearly happens, as all of time and the infinite multiverse is very nearly wiped away. Luckily, the heroes succeed in stopping it, and reality is saved.

** One that is set up way back in Film/BillAndTedsExcellentAdventure, namely the correct way to dial Infinity... Just press the Infinity button, [[note]]Also known as the pound or hash key on normal phones.[[/note]] which appears on every single version of the booth made.

* AudienceAlienatingPremise: In-universe, the titular duo, in their many attempts to "create the song that would unite the world", end up writing [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible totally incomprehensible]] music that pleases no one. Notably, at Missy and Deacon's wedding, Bill and Ted try to perform the first three movements of [[ShortTitleLongElaborateSubtitle "That Which Binds Us Through Time: The Chemical, Physical, and Biological Nature of Love and the Exploration of the Meaning of Meaning— Part 1"]]. If the title wasn't bad enough, the music was so alienating that everyone cringed until Ted's dad literally pulled the plug.

''Bill & Ted Face the Music'' is a SciFi comedy starring Creator/KeanuReeves and Creator/AlexWinter. It is the long-awaited third film in the ''Franchise/BillAndTed'' franchise, coming ''[[SequelGap 29 years]]'' after ''Film/BillAndTedsBogusJourney''. It was directed by Dean Parisot and written by franchise creators Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon.

To finally fulfill this task, Bill & Ted travel through time and encounter old friends and new adventures.

Bill S. Preston, Esq., and Ted "Theodore" Logan are now middle-aged rockers who are well-past their glory days. And despite decades passing since their adventures through time and death, they ''still'' haven't written the song that will unite the world. This long-gestating task takes on new urgency when a visitor from the future comes and tells them that they need to write the song in the next 78 minutes.

* AudienceAlienatingPremise: In-universe, the titular duo, in their many attempts to "create the song that would unite the world", end up writing [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible totally incomprehensible]] music that pleases no one. Notably, at Missy and Deacon's wedding, Bill and Ted try to perform the first three movements of "That Which Binds Us Through Time: The Chemical, Physical, and Biological Nature of Love and the Exploration of the Meaning of Meaning— Part 1". If the title wasn't bad enough, the music was so alienating that everyone cringed until Ted's dad literally pulled the plug.

* AudienceAlienatingPremise: In-universe, the titular duo, in their many attempts to "create the song that would unite the world", end up writing [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible totally incomprehensible]] music that pleases no one. Notably, at Missy and Deacon's wedding, Bill and Ted try to perform the first three movements of "[[OverlyLongTitle That Which Binds Us Through Time: The Chemical, Physical, and Biological Nature of Love and the Exploration of the Meaning of Meaning— Part 1]]". If the title wasn't bad enough, the music was so alienating that everyone cringed until Ted's dad literally pulled the plug.

* OverlyLongTitle: At Missy and Deacon's wedding, Bill and Ted try to perform the first three movements of "That Which Binds Us Through Time: The Chemical, Physical, and Biological Nature of Love and the Exploration of the Meaning of Meaning-- Part 1".

* ImprobableAge: Johnathan Logan, Ted's father, was not particularly young even in the original movie. In this film he is apparently an active member of the San Dimas police force despite being in at least his late seventies (he isn't just manning a desk either-- he goes out into the field with a SWAT team.)
* InventionalWisdom: The TerminatorImpersonator that the Great Leader sent to assassinate Bill and Ted can time-travel, has a disintegrator ray, and is smart enough to identify Bill and Ted on-sight, but it was ''also'' given [[DoAndroidsDream a capacity to feel]] enough to where it felt guilt when he accidentally kills [[spoiler:Ted's father, Thea and Billie, and the band that they were putting together]], and then decides to commit suicide when it's given the chance to kill them. It was also given a full-name -- Dennis Caleb [=McCoy=] -- after Kelly's ex-boyfriend.

* PapaWolf: [[spoiler: Once Bill and Ted find out that their daughters were sent to Hell, they have no hesitation going there to go find them, even if it means having to kill themselves to do it.]]

* RealTime: From the moment Bill and Ted are told of the deadline, the film more or less proceeds in real time, with occasional check ins to see how much time is left.

* TheStinger: [[spoiler: After the credits, we see the elder versions of Bill and Ted deciding to rock out on their guitars for old time sake, though naturally get winded afterward. Serves as a BookEnd as well, as the first movie likewise ended on this note. At least this time they can play.]]

** She is played by Creator/KristenSchaal, who is also well known for playing Mel in Music/FlightOfTheConchords, also a fan and hanger-onner of a struggling 2 man band.

* WritersCannotDoMath: The writers seem to have forgotten what years the first two movies were set in;:

The movie has a comic book prequel called ''ComicBook/BillAndTedAreDoomed'' set not long after ''Bogus Journey'', it chronicles the boys' first attempt to unite the world by going on a World Tour, but things don't go as planned.

** She is played by Kirsten Schall, who is also well known for playing Mel in Music/FlightOfTheConchords, also a fan and hanger-onner of a struggling 2 man band.

** She is played by Kirsten Schall, who is also well known for playing Mel in [[Music/FlightOfTheConchords]], also a fan and hanger-onner of a struggling 2 man band.

** She is played by Kirsten Schall, who is also well known for playing Mel in FlightOfTheConchords, also a fan and hanger-onner of a struggling 2 man band.

''Bill & Ted Face the Music'' is a SciFi comedy starring Creator/KeanuReeves and Creator/AlexWinter. It is the long-awaited and third film in the ''Franchise/BillAndTed'' franchise, coming ''[[SequelGap 29 years]]'' after ''Film/BillAndTedsBogusJourney''. It was directed by Dean Parisot and written by franchise creators Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon.

* AllForNothing: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] with the events of the previous films. Despite all the help provided to ensure their success, Wyld Stallyns never managed to craft the song that would unite the world by the events of ''Face the Music'' and the band is in dire straits. However, Bill and Ted are still very close friends with a positive attitude in spite of everything, and it's clear that their lives are better than they would have been had Rufus never intervened all those years ago. [[spoiler:Things will [[FutureMeScaresMe go downhill]] '''swiftly''', however, if they fail in their mission, meaning the film is essentially the pair trying to prevent this trope from applying in full.]]

* AudienceAlienatingPremise: In-universe, the titular duo, in their many attempts to "create the song that would unite the world", end up writing [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible totally incomprehensible]] music that pleases no one. Notably, at Missy and Deacon's wedding, Bill and Ted try to perform the first three movements of "[[OverlyLongTitle That Which Binds Us Through Time: The Chemical, Physical, and Biological Nature of Love and the Exploration of the Meaning of Meaning — Part 1]]". If the title wasn't bad enough, the music was so alienating that everyone cringed until Ted's dad literally pulled the plug.

** The movie begins and ends in a shot from outer space, both times narrated by Bille and Thea.

* BreakOutTheMuseumPiece: The phone booth Rufus presented Bill and Ted in the first film has been turned into a monument in the future. Bill and Ted steal it to travel through time and obtain the song that will unite all of time and reality from themselves in the future.

* BunnyEarsLawyer: Billie and Thea appear like a pair of dim garage-dwellers, but they have an encyclopedic knowledge of music theory and history [[spoiler:that comes in handy when it turns out they're the ones who create the song that unites all of time and reality]].

** This is the third time we've heard Ted say he had a bad feeling about the situation. The first time, it was when they met Rufus and themselves from the future. The second time, when he was in the back of the van while Evil Bill and Evil Ted were driving them to the desert. This time, he says it after meeting Kelly.

** The number they enter for the infinite starts with "69," a callback to when future Bill and Ted guessed the number they were thinking of: 69 (dudes!).
** Just before embarking on their latest adventure, Ted says, "Bill, my friend..." to which Bill responds, "Yes, Ted my friend?" Ted does this in the first film at a comparable moment.

** The mansion Bill and Ted find their future selves in [[spoiler: actually belongs to Dave Grohl, who comes home and calls the cops on the four of them.]]

* CassandraTruth: Ted's father did not believe the two when they told of their adventures in time travel, meeting Death, and visiting Heaven and Hell, calling them delusional. [[spoiler:He changes his tune after getting killed and sent to Hell and apologizes...but only to Ted.]]

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: At the urging of their wives, Bill and Ted go to couples therapy...as a foursome.

* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: [[spoiler: The new leader of the organisation that gave Bill and Ted the time machine in the first place is trying to kill them because she thinks their deaths will bring about utopia.]] Though she does send another robot assassin after them. Ted's dad is still being a Fantasy-Forbidding Father but he's in no position to send his adult son to military school.

* DancePartyEnding: Sort of. It's not from the characters but rather clips of various people sent in from fans just messing around and jamming out. Essentially implying they're dancing along with the song that unites the world.

* DevilButNoGod: Although God and Heaven were seen in the previous movie, everyone who dies in this movie goes to Hell regardless whether they were good or bad.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: The Great Leader never had a backup plan [[spoiler: if her robot actually killed Bill and Ted and it didn’t fix reality, meaning she likely would’ve condemned the universe to death because of her impulsiveness and pride.]]

* TheDividual: Bill and Ted are so attached at the hip, they say "We love you" to their wives, to the frustration of their marriage councilor. Billie and Thea are the same with each other, and call Bill and Ted "Dads".

* DoAndroidsDream: Parodied with Dennis Caleb [=McCoy=]. [[spoiler:He gains the ability to feel emotion, a name and unique identity, and even a soul, judging by how he ends up in Hell.]] But...nobody makes a big deal of it, seemingly because they don't care.
* DreadfulMusician: In their quest to fulfill their destinies, Bill and Ted taken to [[GenreMashup smashing disparate musical styles together]] into dischordant pieces in the hopes that one of them will be the song that will save the world.
* DrowningMySorrows: The first two future selves Bill and Ted visit reveal the latter becomes TheAlcoholic after losing their wives.
* EverythingIsAnIPodInTheFuture: In the future utopia Bill and Ted visit, everything is sleek, round, and white.

* FantasyForbiddingFather: Ted's dad doesn't believe Bill and Ted's stories about time ravel or the afterlife. He thinks they should quit trying to unite the world and get jobs. [[spoiler:He later apologizes to the boys when he meets them in Hell.]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Bill and Ted's strange musical mash-up at Missy and Deacon's wedding hints at the trouble Billie and Thea later face when trying to get the greatest band of all time to perform together.

* FutureLoser: By the time of this film, Bill and Ted are barely eking out an existence as musicians. They find that they [[spoiler:fall even further from grace in the future]].
* FutureMeScaresMe: Bill and Ted run into themselves in trying to get the song to change the world, but each time their futures seems worst than the last. [[spoiler:Over the course of decades they go from washouts and alcoholics, to squatters and thieves, to angry (and weirdly ripped) prison inmates. The versions of them on their deathbed have mellowed out, however, and explain that none of the intervening years are set in stone.]]

* GondorCallsForAid: Played with, Billie and Thea get the musicians needed to help write the song. [[spoiler:But it's just the starting point. Bill and Ted realize if they're gonna to truly unite everyone, then ''everyone'' through time and space should join in too. So they use the "Infinite" number on the phone booth to project themselves across time and space and give people instruments to help out.]]
* HappyEndingOverride: The second movie ended with the implication that the Wyld Stallyns' worldwide concert was the night that united the world in peace. This film reveals it wasn't, and they still haven't written the song meant to do that yet.

* ImprobableAge: Johnathan Logan, Ted's father was not particularly young even in the original movie. In this film he is apparently an active member of the San Dimas police force despite being in at least his late seventies (he isn't just manning a desk either - he goes out into the field with a SWAT team.)
* InventionalWisdom: The TerminatorImpersonator that the Great Leader sent to assassinate Bill and Ted can time-travel, has a disintegrator ray and is smart enough to identify Bill and Ted on-sight, but it was ''also'' given [[DoAndroidsDream a capacity to feel]] enough to where it felt guilt when he accidentally kills [[spoiler:Ted's father, Thea, Billie and the band they were putting together]] and then decides to commit suicide when it's given the chance to kill them. It was also given a full-name -- Dennis Caleb [=McCoy=] -- after Kelly's ex-boyfriend.
* KarmaHoudini: Nothing bad happens to the Great Leader for sending a killbot that murders a dozen people.

* OutOfTimeOutOfMind: Bill and Ted get killed in 2067 so the other characters they reunite with and Hell should have been there for three decades but they don't seem that bothered.
* OverlyLongTitle: At Missy and Deacon's wedding, Bill and Ted try to perform the first three movements of "That Which Binds Us Through Time: The Chemical, Physical, and Biological Nature of Love and the Exploration of the Meaning of Meaning -- Part 1".

* PrisonsAreGymnasiums: Taken to ridiculous extreme with the future Bill and Ted in prison, who are built like tanks.

** The film also continues the series RunningGag of Missy marrying a family member of Bill or Ted - this time, it's Ted's brother, Deacon.
* SamusIsAGirl: Retroactive example. At the end of ''Bogus Journey'', we're led to believe the pair had sons when they introduce them to the audience of the stadium. This film reveals they were actually their daughters.
* SanDimasTime: As expected from the trope naming series, it's in the very premise of the movie. Bill and Ted are told they have to write their world-changing song in the next [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall 78 minutes]] or all of time and reality will unravel. Kelly gives the two Rufus' old watch so they can see how long they have left.

* StatingTheSimpleSolution: With time running out, Bill and Ted look up Infinity in the directory and start the tedious process of dialing the full number, only for the princesses to point out that the phone booth as an Infinity button.
* TheStinger: [[spoiler: After the credits, we see the elder versions of Bill and Ted deciding to rock out on their guitars for old time sake, though naturally get winded afterward. Serves as a BookEnd as well as the first movie likewise ended on this note. At the least, this time they can play.]]
* SuperCellReception: Kelly’s cellphone to ridiculous degrees. She not only can talk to her mother when they’re in different times but she can also talk to her ''from Hell'' when she’s dead.

* TerminatorTwosome: Dennis goes back to kill Bill and Ted which prompts Kelly to go back to try and save them.

** Although SanDimasTime is in effect and Bill and Ted have a fixed period of time to write their song, versions of themselves from the future reveal that [[spoiler:quantum entanglement means that there are an infinite number of realities existing at once, so present Bill and Ted aren't necessarily locked into the FutureLoser lives they glimpsed in their travels]]. This is in direct conflict with the Hard Deterministic, SelfFulfillingProphecy-style rules established in the first two films.
** [[spoiler:[[PlaceBeyondTime Time doesn't seem to exist in Hell]] as the characters reunite there despite all dying in different time periods (Ted's father in 2025, Billie, Thea, Kelly and the musicians in 2020 and Bill, Ted and Dennis in 2067). When Death takes them back to life they're back in 2020.]]

* TitleDrop: [[spoiler:The song they must write which that saves the world, and is retrieved from the elder Bill & Ted on a USB stick]].
* ToHellAndBack: [[spoiler: Kelly's mother aka The Great Leader sends a robot to stop Bill and Ted due to them illegally using the old phone booth to time travel. But he accidentally vaporizes Ted's father, their daughters, the musicians they recruit, and ''Kelly''. Thus forcing Bill and Ted to detour to go save them from Hell (which looks much different from its depiction in ''Bogus Journey''), reconciling with Death, whom they had a falling out with between movies, along the way.]]
* TwoLinesNoWaiting: The film follows two plots, Bill and Ted's search for the song to unite the worlds through the future and their daughters, Billie and Thea, traveling through time to get musicians to help them write it. All the while time and space start unraveling. [[spoiler: The two plots converge when everyone gets sent Hell.]]
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: [[spoiler:The Great Leader decides to work with the theory that Bill and Ted dying will cause utopia and tries to have them assassinated.]]
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Station and the Good Robot Bill and Teds are never seen or mentioned in the film. The prequel comic, ''Bill and Ted Are Doomed'', [[AllThereInTheManual fills in the gaps of what became of them]].
** Bill's father (Ian Preston) is also absent from the film and only briefly mentioned in passing with no indication about his present whereabout or whether the character is even still living.

* WritersCannotDoMath: The writers seem to have forgotten what years the first two movies were set in;

** This movie's set in 2020 but the Great Leader mentions Bill and Ted did their concert 25 years ago meaning that ''Bogus Journey'' would have to be set in 1995. ''Bogus Journey'' inconsistently set itself in 1991[[note]]The year of release and the newspapers and magazines that appear during the credits are dated 1991[[/note]] and 1993[[note]]Ted says the princesses are celebrating their fifth year in the 20th century and they arrived in the first movie that was set in 1988[[/note]].

* ChekhovsGun: When [[spoiler:Captain Logan]] gets shot, the police van gets destroyed and falls to Hell with him. The gang later drives it out of Hell.

* AudienceAlienatingPremise: In-universe, the titular duo, in their many attempts to "create the song that would unite the world", end up writing [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible totally incomprehensible]] music that would end up pleasing no one. Notably, at Missy and Deacon's wedding, Bill and Ted try to perform the first three movements of "[[OverlyLongTitle That Which Binds Us Through Time: The Chemical, Physical, and Biological Nature of Love and the Exploration of the Meaning of Meaning — Part 1]]". If the title wasn't bad enough, the music was so alienating that everyone cringed until Ted's dad literally pulled the plug.

Bill S. Preston, Esq., and Ted "Theodore" Logan are now middle-aged rockers who are well-past their glory days. And despite decades passing since their adventures through time and death, they ''still'' haven't written the song that will unite the world. This long-gestating task takes on new urgency when a visitor from the future comes and tells them that need to write the song in the next 78 minutes.

To finally fulfill this task Bill & Ted travel through time and encounter old friends and new adventures.

The movie has a comic book prequel called ''ComicBook/BillAndTedAreDoomed'' set not long after ''Bogus Journey'', it chronicles the boys first attempt to unite the world by going on a World Tour, but things don't go as planned.

->''"Sometimes things don't make sense till the end of the story."''