Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey

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Summary: A Most Triumphant Sequel
Review: If you liked the first you'll love this one!

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Summary: Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey
Review: In this movie,they are first replaced with evil robots. They eventualy are killed and go to heaven and hell.In the end they win back their girls. This has a lot of violence and funny spots.I think you should get it.

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Summary: Same but different as the first one
Review: More of the same humor, as Bill and Ted are now DEAD and have to fight it out with the Grim Reaper to get back their lives so they can go home and be with their girls. Still funny, still nothing spectacular. A very good match with their "most excellent adventure", but again, not a real classic. It won't let you down as long as you aren't expecting a movie that redefines comedy. Want a good laugh? This will not let you down.

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Summary: Better than the original
Review: Much funnier than the original which was funny by itself. Too bad Alex Winter hasn't done more work even if what he has done since is hilarious. Seeing Steve Vai brings back bad hair band memories.

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Summary: Gnarly dude!!!
Review: Not as good as the first was, but if you are a fan of the Excellent Adventure you will like the Bogus Journey.

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Summary: A wild, imaginative and eccentric fantasy
Review: Sequels rarely improve on the originals. Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey is bursting at the seams with wacky humor, craziness and invention. Yes, the first was a brilliant ride too but it doesn't live up to this.

Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter are just great in their dual roles as good Bill and Ted and evil Bill and Ted robots from the future. I've never really seen Keanu as convincing in anything else, maybe it's the characters he chooses and not his talent. Too bad his biggest exposure has been as a wooden statue in the god-awful Matrix trilogy. But it's not just Reeves and Winter this time, William Sadler's Grim Reaper is also along for the ride and he steals the show like you've never seen before. Rufus isn't in this one for very long but William Sadler more than makes up for that.

The plot is a bit much to swallow if you're not familiar with the mechanics of the original. A nasty old tyrant 700 years in the future sends evil robot Bill and Teds back through time in the phone booth time machines to kill the good Bill and Ted and prevent their perfect society taking over the world. Once dead Bill and Ted go to hell, challenge the Grim Reaper to a game of Battleship, visit God (after a spot of mugging in heaven), get help from a Martian, brought back from the dead, make good Bill and Ted robots and take on the evil Tyrant guy during a Battle of the Bands finale. Whew! Peter Hewitt (only 25 at the time) brings a bizarre sophistication to the sequel that wasn't present in the blandly shot first film. B&TBJ literally looks like a whacked-out cartoon come to life. The production design is very colorful and vivid, reminiscent of Tim Burton, only not crap.

Don't misjudge this film as being in the same sub-genre as those awful stoners Jay and Silent Bob or even Wayne's World. This is not a dumb generation Xer film, it's a lovely, silly fantasy for all ages and is definitely superior to the original.

Hey Warner, hurry up and release the Bill and Ted animated series on DVD. I want it NOW! Unlike Excellent adventure, this film was shot in plain-old 1.85:1 and the anamorphic transfer on the DVD looks fine and does justice to the very broad color pallet of film. The soundtrack is in Remastered Dolby 5.1 and it sounds above average if not amazing. Definitely get this.

Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey is thoroughly non-non-non heinous.

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Summary: Just as Funny as the First Movie!
Review: Sometimes sequels to good movies can be awful but that wasn't the case with Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey as I think this was just as good as Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure and I enjoyed watching it. Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter were just as funny and I recommend this movie and there is something about The Bill & Ted movies that reminds me of the movie Time Bandits with perhaps the Bill & Ted movies being sillier then Time Bandits.

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Summary: Alright
Review: Thats about all I can say. It is funny, but not the best comedy.

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Summary: Bill And Ted's Journey through the After-life.
Review: The first Bill and Ted movie was a big hit and now they came out with an awsome sequel. Instead of going through time, they go to the after-life. The two began a Bogus Journey they won't ever forget.

The story starts out in San Dimas, CA 2688 at Bill and Ted University. Rufus (George Carlin) is teaching a seminar class and the evil Chuck De Nomolos invades with his private army. With him are two evil robots of Bill and Ted who he sends back through time to kill them before they become superstars.

We find the Wyld Stallyns (Bill, Ted, Elizabeth, and Joanna) auditioning for the battle of the bands contest. Of course they stink, but they still get a shot in the contest. That night after Bill and Ted propose to their girlfriends, the evil twins call the good Bill prettending to be Joanna and dump them. So the evil twins show up prettending to be helping them by bringing them to the desert where the evil twins said the girls were. Instead they throw them off a cliff and the good ones are dead.

Then they wake up in the after-life seeking revenge and then Death shows up (William Sadler). He tells them to come with him and they ask him if they can come back to life. Deaths says they must challenge him to a contest and if they win, they go back to life and if not they stay in the after-life. So they ditch him by melvining him (otherwords, a wedgie).

So, they go Ted's parents for help and Ted's step-mom, Missy and her spiritual group send them to hell. So they are stuck in their own personal hells that revolve around the bad things they did in life. After the two being chased by a evil colonel, a evil easter bunny and Bill's grandma, they decide to challenge Death.

Now on with the games. They play Battleship and of course Bill and Ted win. Death is a poor sport and makes them play best 2 out of 3. Then he loses again in Clue and he says best of 3 out of 5. Then he loses in electronic football. Bill: "Best of 7?" Death: "DAMN RIGHT!" The last game is Twister. He loses and decides to take them back to life. They go to heaven, and find two alien scientists to help them build two good robots of themselves.

Now they have built the robots and they are at the Battle of the Bands where the evil ones are. So they destroy them at the concert. Chuck De Nomolos shows up to finally kill him themselves. He loses and Death melvins him (Wedgie). They play at the concert and win. The song they play is KISS's very own "God Gave Rock and Roll To You II" that they released for the movie and for their Revenge album in 1992.

This movie isn't as exciting as the first but definately a great sequel. Take the Bogus journey with Bill and Ted.

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Summary: What a Sequel!!
Review: The first movie had me in stiches, but Bogus Journey had tears rolling down my face! The sequel doesnt simply see the guys getting up to the exact same antics, instead we have a new journey and new hillarious characters, in the shape of The Reaper and Station, coupled with the old familar characters. So much funnier than the first.