There's a few times they say "it'll all make sense in the end" and it felt like there was going to be some big twist but there wasn't. The "twist" was that the daughters are the ones who make the song that saves the world. But like...I figured that out from the trailer. Everyone did. I think that's just classic B&T logic though. It's a revelation to them but obvious to everyone else. The daughters go time hopping and bring together classic musicians a la Excellent Adventure. Except one of these famous musicians is a no name cave woman who can drum? And randomly Kid Cudi? The musician choices don't make sense. Also with how much sampling is done in music right now I figured that would play into it. Like you don't have to bring the musicians to current time just sample them in their own time and compile it later. Past Bill and Ted choices vs next generation choices. But my guess is the writers are kind of out of touch with current trends and hadn't even considered that.
Mike gets a point for saying the princesses are pointless in the ReView because they are really pointless in this one. They don't do a damn thing for the plot. There are 3 things technically pushing the story forward. B&T trying to make the song that saves the universe (and the quest it leads them on), B&T "saving their marriage", and B&T avoiding the robot Dennis sent to murder them. The last 2 things do not factor in at all and could have been cut entirely. What happens is, B&T go to the future (to find a version of themselves who have already made the song) and learn their wives leave them because their wives from the future went back to take them time hopping to find a place where they are finally happy with B&T and learn there isn't one. So basically the current princesses get taken away by future princesses and they are out of most of the movie. We don't see ANY of that side plot and it feels like it was chopped for time. They just come to the realization "right now is the happiest place for us"....uh ok. B&T needed kids, that is the only reason the princesses exist.
That comes up a lot for me. That the writers needed X to happen so they wrote in Y but now they have no idea what to do with Y. Dennis the robot is another example. Rufus' wife decides murdering Bill and Ted is a better solution then waiting for them to make the song. That choice doesn't make any sense. She has this robot named Dennis who she sends after them. Dennis only exists to send most of the characters to Hell so the plot lines can converge and also talk to Death. Dennis the robot is just a confusing addition. Clearly supposed to be the Death comic relief character but wasn't funny or charming. Again, thought it would all make sense in the end but nope, Dennis really only exists to make X happen.
They meet up with Death who had a falling out with the guys over basically nothing and they ask him to rejoin so they can get out of hell and he says sure ok. It's supposed to be some grand moment but we barely learn anything about why they need to mend their relationship so them reuniting doesn't land like it should. William Sadler has lost the ability to do Death's strange accent and it's jarring hearing him reach for it.
In the beginning B&T and their wives go to couples counseling and it's established that they have a hard time seeing each other as separate people. They say "we" love you to their wives instead of "I" love you and such. I thought maybe they established that so they would have some time apart. That would lead to them realizing they don't need to be attached at the hip and all the time spent up each other's asses was preventing them from growing as people and preventing them from writing the universe saving song. That's a typical "woke" movie plot though. "The real villan is codependency" wouldn't be best for B&T (it didn't work for Wreck it Ralph 2 either) so I guess it gets a pass. But they end up saying "I love you" to their wives at the end. They somehow grew on their journey but it's not really shown in my opinion.
Every issue I had could be answered with "but that's just how Bill and Ted movies are" and somehow that makes sense and I'm ok with it.
