To celebrate the release of Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure n stunning 4K restoration – as an ode to the iconic duo, we are taking a look back at some of our favourite bromances to grace the big screen. Party on dudes!
Bill & Ted (Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure – 1989)
Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure saw Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter become cult icons following their stint as a hopeless but lovable duo more than 30 years ago. The film sees the pair jet through time in their phone booth time machine so they can collect famous historical figures like Abraham Lincoln and Socrates for their school report. Most excellent!!
Wayne & Garth (Wayne’s World – 1992)
Mike Myers’ Wayne Campbell and Dana Carvey’s Garth Algar are the suburban slackers you feel you’ve definitely met before. They are so familiar: they dressed alike (band tees and ripped jeans), they spoke their own language (Schwing!) and they had big, big love for one another (“Party on, Wayne”; “Party on, Garth”). As we watch these doofusses try to promote their public-access cable show, it’s hard not to fall in love with them yourself…
Harry & Lloyd (Dumb and Dumber – 1994)
As Harry Dunne and Lloyd Christmas, Jeff Daniels and Jim Carrey gave us the biggest idiots the world has ever seen. They offend, annoy, drive crazy, and enrage everyone they come into contact with, and they have the combined IQ of a teaspoon… and yet we love them. Surely this is a testament to the actors’ on-screen rapport.
Harold & Kumar (Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle – 2004)
Smoking pot makes you hungry. That fact drives this unpretentiously genial little stoner comedy. Bound together by their shared love of gnarly but undeniably seductive hamburgers, Harold Lee (John Cho) and Kumar Patel (Kal Penn) spend a increasingly wild evening getting stoned and nearly cooked by a rampaging Neil Patrick Harris. What’s more to like?!
Seth & Evan (Superbad – 2007)
Equally hilarious and heartfelt, this ridiculously quotable teen comedy is about the friendship between Jonah Hill and Michael Cera’s beta bros Seth and Even; two guys on the verge of leaving childish things — and thanks to college, each other — behind. It’s their last night to party as high-school seniors, and boy do they make the most of it…! Drinking, plucking up the courage to ask out their long-term crushes, and shooting up a police car (with policemen) are just a few of the classic teen-movie shenanigans they get up to…
Nicholas and Danny (Hot Fuzz – 2007)
Edgar Wright’s tribute to buddy cop films takes a rural twist as London’s most badass police officer Nicholas Angel (Simon Pegg) is sent to a sleepy English hamlet, where he’s partnered with the hopeless, action-film-fanatic constable PC Danny Butterman (Nick Frost), who’s main goal in life is to fire two guns whilst jumping through the air. Worry not, he gets his chance… With references to fellow buddy cop films Bad Boys 2, Lethal Weapon and Point Break to name a few, you’d think Hot Fuzz was just another in a long line of cop buddies, but the pairing of Pegg and Frost makes this a cut above the rest, and works even if you’ve never seen a single movie they’re referencing.
Brennan and Dale (Step Brothers – 2008)
Plenty of Hollywood comedies are about the chaotic stories of perpetual adolescents. The genius of Step Brothers, though, was the decision to take the concept of the man-child literally. Will Ferrell, playing 39-year-old Brennan Huff, and John C. Reilly, as 40-year-old Dale Doback, are the emotionally repressed idiots in question, going from a violent war over a treasured drum kit to an obsessive friendship that blossoms over learning karate in the basement. They’re spoiled tweens in slobby middle-aged bodies, and at each step of their non-coming of age, the actors match each other for sheer absurd commitment.
BILL AND TED’S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE RELEASES ON 4K ULTRA HD, STEELBOOK, BLU-RAY™, DVD & DIGITAL DOWNLOAD – 10TH AUGUST 2020
