Is Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure actually good?

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure sits in the 80.1% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 80.1% of them.

How does Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure lands in the 78.1% percentile. The cohort comparison exists because a global rank flatters or punishes a film for its category rather than its quality.

How many reviewers is Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure's score based on?

239 calibrated reviewers stand behind Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure's score.

1989

global pct

80.1

Film · 1989 · Films · 1980s

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

Name: Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Music
Released: 1989

Scored from 239 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

80.1%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

78.1%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

96.1%

AI-adjusted percentile

239 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Two amiable but academically failing California teenagers, Bill and Ted, are visited by a traveler from the future who lends them a time-traveling phone booth to help them pass their history final. They zip through different eras collecting famous historical figures and bring them back to San Dimas for an unforgettable class presentation.

Released in 1989, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure is an adventure, comedy and music film. Inside comedy it is classed as Goofy.

3,140 other films from the 1980s form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 239 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 245 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.

Is Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 239
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1980s

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