Bill and Teds Bogus Journey (1991)

"...Reeves and Winter are clearly having fun...  Find-A-Video
"Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey is the best!  Los Angeles Times

Editor's Note After miraculously graduating San Dimas high school, Bill and Ted are preparing for a battle of the bands. But somewhere in the future the evil De Nomolos creates identical Bill and Ted robots to kill the originals, take their place and lose the contest. Bill and Ted must dodge Death and fulfill their most resplendent destiny.

	Alex Winter
	William Sadler
	George Carlin
	Joss Ackland
	Keanu Reeves
	Pam Grier
	Peter Hewitt - Director
	Oliver Wood - Director of Photography
	David Newman - Musical Score
	Scott Kroopf - Producer
	Chris Matheson - Writer
	Ed Solomon - Writer

This time out, our two vacuous but loveable teenagers are thrown off a cliff and sent to Hell, where they are tortured with a succession of stylishly realized nightmares. The duo need to escape the fires of Hades in enough time to make it to the "battle of the bands" their rock group has entered. In order to free themselves they engage the "Grim Reaper" in a gut-wrenching series of contests testing the limits of human discipline and intelligence. Victorious, they return to Earth to battle the pair of evil robotic doubles who originally killed them, and have since taken their places -- wreaking havoc with the dudes' personal lives.

"Excellent!" ---- Bill (Alex Winter)

"Bogus!" ---- Ted (Keanu Reeves)

"Excellent!" ---- Ted (Keanu Reeves)

"Bogus!" ---- Bill (Alex Winter)

One of the film's advertising tag--lines was: "Once... they made history. Now... they are history!"

Sight and Sound
"...Hugely enjoyable....An ingeniously surreal and quite ridiculous world..." 01/01/1992 p.38-9

New York Times
"...A hip, friendly universe....Played with such loose-jointed aplomb..." 07/19/1991 p.C10

Entertainment Weekly
"...Fantastical..." -- Rating: A-

Los Angeles Times
"...BOGUS JOURNEY is better than the original: more imaginative, more opulent, wilder and freer, more excitingly visualized..." 07/19/1991 p.F1

Washington Post 8 of 10
...This is a teenage screwball comedy with all its screws proudly loose... There's nothing bogus about this locomotivated follow-up; it's a truly excellent adventure, hilariously inventive, greased-lightning paced and dumb-bunny brilliant. - Hal Hinson