Granted, it’s probably been decades since the last time I looked forward to a Woody Allen film. Even so, I did expect him to cough up something a mite less flimsy than Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure for English majors. Featuring a couple of clueless high-school metalheads who go back in time to recruit the “real” Napoleon, Genghis Khan, Billy the Kid, Beethoven, Lincoln, and so on to avoid flunking history, Bill & Ted was the better—and certainly less cloying—movie of the two.
Oh my god. This is exactly why I didn’t enjoy Midnight in Paris. Thanks for articulating it.
