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Welcome to this month's movie review, and I won't lie, I am a bit annoyed. This is the second time that I am writing this part which was 1,300 words long and, yeah, I lost it all. So, I had time to watch two movies this month that were worth reviewing, but I need to say (like I did in the last version of this review), I liked Bill and Ted: Face the Music. I dropped twenty-five dollars on a digital copy to own instead of doing twenty to rent—that should say something.

Also, worth noting before the review is that on Friday, February 17, 1989, I was at the Mt. Vernon Twin Drive-In to watch Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure. Something that I feel that should be said about the forthcoming review is that I understand that in today's cinema, almost everything that is made comes with an agenda. This movie is no exception, but if you try to approach it as such and know it's coming it makes the flick a bit more enjoyable (that is for any movie currently being made).

Okay, and here is a final side-note before we begin, if you have never seen the previous films, it will not matter coming into this third installment (in fact, it might make it more palatable as it lessens the sting and confusion that this movie creates with the others made—and I am not even going to touch on that).

Remember at the conclusion of Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey, our heroes outwit the Death and pass through Heaven and Hell to come back to life, rescue the princesses and have a "most triumphant" concert at the all-important Battle of the Bands.

So, when the movie ends, we think cool, happily ever after.

Boy, were we wrong!

Welcome to the angry world of 2020, where we find middle-aged versions of Bill Preston and Ted Logan at their once step mom's next wedding. They are the wedding singers for that event, and we quickly learn that our righteous duo never created the song that Rufus (in the previous two films) said would bring all of humanity together.

Again, this is 2020 and we learned that they failed to not only write the song, but keep their band Wyld Stallyns together. They still chase their dreams in hopes of bringing mankind together and have basically failed at life, as we continue on and learn that they have married the princesses, who are unhappy with their husbands—although, they were rescued and brought to a time with running water and electricity. Talk about gratitude, but I digress.

One thing that Bill and Ted did do correctly was that they had kids, who were daughters which is a huge plus in the current Tinseltown narrative. Enter Thea (Samara Weaving) and Billie (Brigette Lundy-Paine) who are the actual Bill and Ted in this flick because their old dads could not get the job done, so the daughters show them how to do it.

Okay, let's get into the story, shall we? Bill and Ted are summoned to the future as Rufus' daughter, Kelly goes back to 2020 to fetch them. They are told by her mother The Great Leader, that time is running out and unless they come up with a song by 7:17 PM that night, all of space and time will collapse.

We see this as the timeline is leaking and people are being displaced in wrong times, such as Babe Ruth appears to be crossing the Delaware instead of George Washington.

So Bill and Ted, being the heroes that they are portrayed to be in the previous two films, conclude that they do not have the ability to come up with it and will take an old-school time-traveling phone booth and steal the finished song from themselves. Once they are gone, the Princesses split too to get away from their loser husbands that saved them from certain doom in the last film. Just saying.

The real heroes emerge (Billie and Thea), and having a greater knowledge of music than their male counterparts, go off on their own time-traveling adventure to collect the greatest musicians in history to create the ultimate band, to play the song because surely it couldn't be their dads.

Then a rapper by the name of Kid Cudi joins the story (yes, I had to Google who the fuzzy hell he was) and hits us with long dialogue to make him appear as a genius, but rather felt forced and practiced.

So, the girls and Kid Cudi agree that if they go across every moment in known history and give everyone an instrument to play all at once would save time as we known it and that is exactly what they do (I do not know how they got the billions of billions of instruments to make that happen—it was just a 'they did' moments).

Everyone plays except the girls who produced the whole thing (yes, I googled the answer) and BOOM! Everything is fine once again, everyone went back to their own timelines and the day is saved no thanks to Bill and Ted.

I did leave a ton out of this version like the androgynous robot named Dennis, who The Great Leader sends to kill Bill and Ted. Also, the reuniting of Death after he broke up with the Wyld Stallyons, the different future versions of the duo are very un-Bill and Ted.

But I think I hit all the keynote for this flick, and will also say we should expect to see a Billie and Thea movie in the near future which I will actually be looking forward to.

Like I said at the beginning of this review, I did like the movie for what they brought to the table. After all, how many times did we say on Social Media that we would love to see one more Bill and Ted, well we got it. It may have not been what you were expecting, but in this day and age, no one should be really surprised with the in your face narrative.

All right so let's give this bad boy a grade. Again, I did like the movie for what it was and therefore will judge on that merit. Overall gang, I walked away entertained and say that it is worth watching once or twice (just to pick up all the Easter eggs piled into this movie, I was surprised how many I found). So for Bill and Ted: Face the Music give it three stars, nothing clever with that delivery but satisfying—just like the movie.

As promised, we are going to take a look at one more movie, but this one was free of charge (well, minus the cost of a Netflix subscription) is the sequel to the 2017 Horror film, The Babysitter. Just like the previous film, Netflix put up the cash to produce The Babysitter: Killer Queen.

In this follow-up, we find Cole two years later (although he says he is a junior in high school which would make him sixteen, in the first, he was twelve which was only two years ago according to the film which would only make him fourteen, but I digress). We find that everyone thinks he is lying about the event of the last film (i.e. Bee—who by the way is Samara Weaving, the same actress who portrayed Thea in BILL & TED: FACE THE MUSIC—was a satanic, murderous and former babysitter) tried to kill him. For surviving the last flick, his loving parents had Cole institutionalized in a psychiatric school. After being convinced by his friend, Melanie, her boyfriend, Jimmy, along with other friends Boom-Boom and Diego all decide to ditch school and go to a huge beach party.

At the party, he noticed another student, Phoebe arriving. Blah, Blah, Blah, let's get to the killing, shall we? So, we jump to find Cole playing a game of, Seven Minutes in Heaven with Melanie which leads to them having a moment. Afterward, homie is feeling like the King of the World until BOOM! The girl of his dreams suddenly kills Boom-Boom Candyman style with a hook (I see a running theme here).

We find out that Boom-Boom was a blood sacrifice blah, blah, more killing, and blood, with new occult, members, and then the original cult gang, Sonya, Allison, Max, and John are resurrected to get Cole's pure virgin blood and complete a ritual to remain alive or they two die at sunrise.

More killing and blood, Cole meets up with Phoebe and becomes a team they kill a lot of the demonic baddies until Phoebe is caught by Melanie and is taken to the ritual site at a cove via knifepoint.

Cole hits the scene like a straight-up hero and says he will volunteer to be sacrificed. Then, BOOM! Bee comes out of the water like she thought she was the Lady of the Lake with Excalibur in hand and we find out that she was also Phoebe's babysitter who was responsible for her mom and dad's tragic deaths.

We hit the flashback and find out that Bee made a deal with Lucifer (not the Tom Ellis version though, sorry ladies), to save little Phoebe's life. So, after that gripping moment of storytelling, we are back at the cove, they take a bag of Cole's blood and they mix it with Boom-Boom's that was collected from earlier, each took turns taking a drink to complete their ritual. But, whoopsie, we find out that Cole wasn't so innocent as originally believed as he and Phoebe found time to, um, procreate earlier on in the flick.

In such, the other begins to disintegrate, which at this point in the movie we hear the best line in the entire sequel from Max when he said, "You f***ing stud, Cole! I'm not even mad, bro! Respect!"

So now, Bee is kinder from the last flick and had a change of heart after Cole's love confession after kicking her butt last time. However, since Bee was still under contract with the Devil figures, What the Hell time to wrap up this very expensive cameo drinks the blood and like the other BOOM! She looks like a vampire on the way out in the Blade flick and goes bye-bye too.

In the end, he saves the day, saves the girl, and has his dad believing everything he's been saying for the last two years! WINNING! For The Babysitter: Killer Queen, I award it three and a half stars because I liked it and it was a fun watch! BOOM!

Well, that's it from me, this month. Remember, the best opinion is your own, so go out there and review the movies I've covered and then let me know your thoughts. That is the greatest thing about having an opportunity to share my thoughts about these flicks, just because I like or dislike does that not make it law—after all, I'm an old guy and understand that my view is different from you whippersnappers, so tell me your thoughts below.

Until next time, this is Moviegoer Grim, saying, "That's all, folks!"

PS. This installment is dedicated to Reaper Rick who wrote his final movie review eight years ago this month. Miss you buddy.

PSS. I won't be so grumpy come Halloween movie review—Promise!

PSSS. I like Cheese!