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Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey

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The music of Bill and Ted 's band, Wyld Stallyns , has created a utopian future society. Rufus now works as teacher at Bill & Ted University . He used the Time Booth to travel back in time to bring historical figures; Thomas Edison , Sir James Martin , Johann Sebastian Bach and Ria Paschelle to the future to teach his students. In one such lesson Chuck De Nomolos , who detested this society, steals the phone booth and sends two robots Evil Bill and Evil Ted back to the late 20th century to prevent Bill and Ted from winning the San Dimas Battle of the Bands . Rufus attempted to stop De Nomolos by leaping after the booth but seemingly becomes lost in the Circuits of Time .

In the present, three years after Bill and Ted first traveled through time, Wyld Stallyns is preparing for the contest. Though Bill and Ted's current fiancées and former 15th-century princesses Elizabeth and Joanna have become skilled musicians, Bill and Ted are still inept. Despite this, the organizer Ms. Wardroe assures them a slot in the contest as the final act. Bill's stepmother Missy divorces his father in favor of Ted's father , who threatens Ted with military school should they fail the Battle of the Bands. Evil Bill and Evil Ted arrive, and the robots eventually replace Bill and Ted, killing them by throwing the two over the side of a cliff at Vasquez Rocks. The robots behave rudely to the princesses and work to ruin the duo's fame.

Bill and Ted's souls are met by Death who challenges them in a game for their souls. Bill and Ted escape after giving Death a " Melvin ". They attempt to alert their families, but their ethereal forms prove difficult, and at one point, are cast down into Hell at a séance held by Missy. In Hell, they are tormented by Satan , made to face their own fears, manifesting as Col Oates , the Easter Bunny , and Granny S Preston , and realize their only escape is to take Death's offer. Taken to Death's chambers, the spirit gives them the option of what game to play. Bill and Ted, to Death's dismay, select modern games like Battleship, Clue and Twister, easily beating Death. Death admits defeat and unwillingly becomes their servant. Bill and Ted recognize they need to locate the smartest person in the universe to help build robots to counter De Nomolos' evil robots. Death escorts the two to Heaven, and with God's help, are directed to an alien named Station who has the ability to split into two identical twins, and readily offers to help Bill and Ted.

Death brings them back to the mortal world, where it is the night of the Battle of the Bands. Bill and Ted take Station to a hardware store, and then race in their van back to the concert while Station constructs good robots. Just as the evil robots take the stage, Bill and Ted arrive, and Station's robots easily defeat the evil ones. De Nomolos appears in the time booth, ready to defeat Bill and Ted himself, and overrides the broadcasting equipment to send the video footage of this to everyone on the planet. The two recognize they can later go back in time to arrange events for De Nomolos to be trapped in the present, aided by Death and Station; though De Nomolos is apparently able to do the same, Bill and Ted gain the upper hand with the explanation that it is only the winners who get to go back, and De Nomolos is arrested by Ted's father, after suffering a "Melvin" at the hands of the Reaper. Ms. Wardroe reveals herself to be a disguised Rufus, having assured Bill and Ted's spot in the concert, and urges them to play.

As Bill and Ted reunite with their fiancées, they realize they are still terrible musicians, and the four use the time booth; though they return immediately, "an intense 16 months of guitar training plus a two-week honeymoon" have passed for them, they have married the princesses, and each is raising a young infant " Little Ted " and " Little Bill ". They begin to perform a stunning rock ballad, joined by Death, Station, and the good robots. The worldwide broadcast set by De Nomolos continues, and Wyld Stallyns' music is played across the globe, creating harmony. Over the credits, it's shown through newspaper articles that the band, along with Death, go through many perks of fame before eventually taking their act to Mars.

• Keanu Reeves as Theodore "Ted" Logan / Evil Ted
• Alex Winter as Bill S. Preston, Esq. / Evil Bill / Granny S. Preston, Esq.
• William Sadler as Death
• Joss Ackland as Chuck De Nomolos
• George Carlin as Rufus
• Pam Grier as Ms. Wardroe
• Annette Azcuy as Elizabeth Logan
• Sarah Trigger as Joanna Preston
• Hal Landon Jr. as Captain John Logan , Ted's father
• Amy Stoch as Missy/Mom
• Ed Gale , Arturo Gil and Tom Allard as Station
• Neil Ross as Station Twin #2 (voice)
• Frank Welker as the voices of Satan , Easter Bunny and Station

Soundtrack [ ]

As was particularly common at the time, the soundtrack album focuses on the rock music heard throughout the film. An album of the full orchestral score by David Newman would not become available until 2007.

The song Bill and Ted play for the battle of the bands is "Final Guitar Solo" by Steve Vai, which he wrote to help blend into "God Gave Rock 'N' Roll to You II" by Kiss, although Bill appears similar in appearance to Dusty Hill and Billy Gibbons from ZZ Top.

There's also a reference to the lyrics from "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" by Poison.

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Marvel comics [ ].

To coincide with the release of the Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey, Marvel Comics released a one-shot comic book adaptation of the film, hiring Evan Dorkin to adapt the screenplay and pencil the art. Like Archie Goodwin's adaptation of the first Star Wars film film, Dorkin worked from the original script, which included many deleted scenes such as the fears from Hell attempting to block Bill and Ted from the concert, and Evil Bill and Ted killing Bill and Ted before they remind the Reaper that they are owed lives from beating him so many times. Death was portrayed as the archetypal skeletal figure. Due to the popularity of the comic, Marvel commissioned a spin-off series, Bill & Ted's Excellent Comic Book, which kept the talents of Dorkin, DeStefano, and Severin. The series ran for 12 issues, featuring original stories, such as Death taking a vacation, a medieval version of Bill and Ted, Bill and Ted gaining a band manager, a return by DeNomolos, an attempt to stop John Wilkes Booth, and meeting Little Bill and Ted from the future.

Reception [ ]

Critical reception to the movie was mixed. Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator, reported that 54% of 50 surveyed critics gave Bogus Journey a positive review; the average rating was 5.93/10. The film's consensus stated: "Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey has the same stars—and cheerfully wacky sense of humor—as its predecessor, but they prove a far less effective combination the second time around."

• Progressive rock/metal band Primus appear as themselves during Battle of the Bands, performing Tommy the Cat.
• The original title of Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey was “Bill & Ted Go To Hell”.
• Another story idea for Bogus Journey had been to let them take an English test and have them get into books and whatnot.

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• 2 Ted Logan

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Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey

A tyrant from the future creates evil android doubles of Bill and Ted and sends them back to eliminate the originals. A tyrant from the future creates evil android doubles of Bill and Ted and sends them back to eliminate the originals. A tyrant from the future creates evil android doubles of Bill and Ted and sends them back to eliminate the originals.

• Peter Hewitt
• Chris Matheson
• Keanu Reeves
• Alex Winter
• William Sadler
• 187 User reviews
• 82 Critic reviews
• 61 Metascore
• 1 win & 1 nomination

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• Trivia When Bill and Ted go to Missy's séance, Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon , the creators and writers of "Bill and Ted" are there; they're the only men present. Chris is the guy with the white shirt, and Ed is the guy with the glasses. They also say "Ed and Chris rule the world" backwards.
• Goofs When Death falls from the sky after Bill and Ted are resurrected, he hits the ground wearing black and white shoes, when he had been always seen in bare feet.

Grim Reaper : [rapping] You might be a king or a little street sweeper, but sooner or later you dance with the reaper.

[Twirls Scythe over his head and ducks so blade doesn't hit it]

Grim Reaper : Heh heh! Get down with your bad self!

• Crazy credits "Be Excellent to Each Other and Party On."
• Alternate versions The original script had many differences, some that were filmed but cut out. These scenes remain in the novel and comic book adaptions and bits heard in the soundtrack.
• Connections Edited into The Frollo Show: Frollo Misses his Mother (2011)
• Soundtracks The Reaper Written, Performed & Produced by Steve Vai Published by Sy Vy Music / OPC Music Publishing, Inc. Courtesy of Relativity Records

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• Oct 27, 2000
• Is the "Bill & Ted" series based on a book?
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• Do the Wyld Stallyns really exist?
• July 19, 1991 (United States)
• United States
• United Kingdom
• Bill & Ted Go to Hell
• Vasquez Rocks Natural Area Park - 10700 W. Escondido Canyon Rd., Agua Dulce, California, USA (Bill and Ted face Death)
• Nelson Entertainment
• Interscope Communications
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• $20,000,000 (estimated)
• $38,037,513
• $10,241,268
• Jul 21, 1991
• $38,040,268

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Why Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey is Actually a Horror Movie

As hard as it is to make a good sequel to a horror movie, it’s almost impossible for a comedy. There are exceptions, like National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation and Wayne’s World 2, but for the most part, they’re almost always terrible. Even more than horror—way more, I think—they fall into the territory of completely rehashing the original. Recycling jokes, trying to give people more of the same, but repackaging it as something new.

Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey is a completely different film than the first. That’s so rare that it kind of succeeds on that level alone. But not only is it different from the original, it’s just, well, different. It’s a movie that does its own thing. It gives me so much faith in the world of filmmaking just to think that someone walked in and pitched this and it actually got green-lit.

Everything about it is ridiculous and absurd, and that’s the point. Bill and Ted were successful, dopey, charming leads and now we have a sequel that kills them off about fifteen minutes in. The time travel gimmick, which was the major conceit of the first, is taken care of right off the bat with a villain who sends evil robot versions of Bill and Ted from the future back in time to wipe them out. That’s basically the most we get with time travel in this one, because it’s been done.

Instead, it moves into completely new territory. And that territory is horror. It’s comedy, of course, but Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey relies on so many really specific horror tropes that it’s kind of amazing. As you go on this bogus journey, you see ghosts, possession, a trip to Hell, the Devil, a demonic Easter Bunny, a grandmother who’s almost Zelda levels of scary, murderous robots, and Death himself.

It’s amazing that this is a real movie. Each one of these plot points would have been absolutely insane to suggest as a sequel to Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure. Putting them all together? That’s kind of genius.

This is a bizarre movie, and it just builds as it goes. Each scene is more insane and off-the-wall than the last, and that’s what makes Bogus Journey so entertaining. By the end of it, we see Bill and Ted recruiting the smartest minds in the galaxy to build them good robot versions of themselves to battle the bad versions of themselves.

Bogus Journey is cold stone proof that just because a film is a sequel, that doesn’t mean it can’t be shockingly original. Honestly, the whole thing’s worth it just to watch the boys face off against Death in games of Battleship, Twister and Clue. If it made no other contributions to cinema, it would still have that.

The core of the story is also kind of archetypal. As perfectly ridiculous as nearly every aspect of the movie is, the journey through the underworld is a fundamental, timeless trend in storytelling. From the Greek myth of Orpheus to Hellraiser II to Richard Matheson’s What Dreams May Come and its film adaptations, there are hundreds of takes on this idea throughout centuries of literature. This one happens to star Bill S. Preston, Esq. and Ted “Theodore” Logan.

Despite not exactly being critically acclaimed, I don’t think I need to sell anyone on how genuinely watchable this movie is. It’s not only a rare sequel that lives up to the original, it manages to be one of the only comedy sequels in history that stands on its own two feet by being completely different. It is its own thing, and that alone is commendable. Yes, it’s weird. It’s really weird. But that’s exactly what makes it work so well.

Yeah, it might not actually be done with the intent of scaring the audience (except that scene with Granny Preston, Esq.) but there are dozens of beloved horror comedies that fans hold near and dear, and  Bogus Journey  has definitely earned its place among them.

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There were parts of "Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey" I probably didn't understand, but that's all right, because there were even more parts that Bill and Ted didn't understand. This is a movie that thrives on the dense-witted idiocy of its characters, two teenage dudes who go on amazing journeys through time and space with only the dimmest perception that they are not still playing video games. I missed the enormously popular movie that introduced these characters, "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure," and felt myself blessed at the time. But now I'm not so sure. Their "Bogus Journey" is a riot of visual invention and weird humor that works on its chosen sub-moronic level, and on several others as well, including some fairly sophisticated ones. It's the kind of movie where you start out snickering in spite of yourself, and end up actually admiring the originality that went into creating this hallucinatory slapstick. The movie begins far in the future, where students at Bill & Ted's University have the opportunity to chat personally with Thomas Edison and Beethoven, and to study such artistic classics as the " Star Trek " TV series. An evil overlord of time, named De Nomolos and played by that gravel-voiced, white-haired villain Joss Ackland , vows to rewrite history by destroying Bill and Ted (played as before by Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves ). He has invented robots that look and act exactly like the two heroes, and are just as dumb, and he sends them rocketing back through time in a telephone booth. Bill and Ted are meanwhile trying to win a rock band contest with their own group, the Wyld Stallyons, which includes a couple of girl musicians they picked up in the 15th century. Startled by the appearance of their robot-doubles, they commence their own journeys through time and space in a desperate attempt to destroy them, save themselves, preserve the book of history, stay cool, and meet cute chicks. The funniest thing that happens to them is their showdown with the Grim Reaper ( William Sadler ), who looks just as he does in Ingmar Bergman's "The Seventh Seal." In that film (as most of the audience for this one will probably not know), Death played chess with a medieval knight, with the knight's soul at stake. This time the dudes challenge the Reaper to a pocket video game, and beat him, even after he tries to weasel out with an offer of best of three. Death, having lost, has to accompany Bill and Ted on their journey and do what they tell him, and this leads to some of the funniest moments I have seen in any movie in a long time, including one where the Reaper does a little comparison shopping for scythes at the hardware store. One of the stops on the bogus journey is Heaven, created with great imagination and a lot of light and echoing sound effects and a most peculiar conversation with the Deity. Bill ands Ted handle this summit meeting, as they handle everything else in the film, like two dudes for whom "Pee Wee's Playhouse" would be too slow and intellectual. All of the actors (including George Carlin , who turns up in an important supporting role) have a lot of fun with this material, and it turns into more delicate fun, based on more subtle timing, than you might imagine. Many of Sadler's laughs as the Grim Reaper come from simple physical cringing, as he conveys his embarrassment and lost dignity.

Of Bill and Ted, I can say that I have not seen Alex Winter much before (he was in " Rosalie Goes Shopping "), but I have seen Keanu Reeves in vastly different roles (the FBI man in the current "Point Break," for example), and am a little astonished by the range of these performances. Like Sean Penn , who immortalized the word "awesome" in a Bill & Ted-like performance in " Fast Times at Ridgemont High ," he brings more artistry to this cretinous role than might at first meet the eye. Who is the movie intended for? Your basic "Bill & Ted" audience, for starters -- upward-bound young moviegoers looking for something one notch more challenging than " Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ." But also for lovers of fantasy, whimsy, and fanciful special effects. This movie is light as a feather and thin as ice in spring, but what it does, it does very nicely.

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Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey

1991, Comedy, 1h 38m

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Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey has the same stars -- and cheerfully wacky sense of humor -- as its predecessor, but they prove a far less effective combination the second time around. Read critic reviews

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Amiable slackers Bill (Alex Winter) and Ted (Keanu Reeves) are once again roped into a fantastical adventure when De Nomolos (Joss Ackland), a villain from the future, sends evil robot duplicates of the two lads to terminate and replace them. The robot doubles actually succeed in killing Bill and Ted, but the two are determined to escape the afterlife, challenging the Grim Reaper (William Sadler) to a series of games in order to return to the land of the living.

Genre: Comedy

Original Language: English

Director: Peter Hewitt

Producer: Scott Kroopf

Writer: Chris Matheson , Ed Solomon

Release Date (Streaming): Sep 27, 2016

Box Office (Gross USA): $38.0M

Runtime: 1h 38m

Production Co: Interscope Communications, Nelson Entertainment

Sound Mix: Surround, Stereo

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The popularity of the first Bill & Ted film prompted Nelson and Orion to release a sequel two years later. Chuck De Nomolos (Joss Ackland), a rebel from Rufus's utopian future, wants to replace it with a militaristic Crapsack World . He plans to accomplish this by sending Evil Robot duplicates into the past, where they will kill the boys, then deliver a disparaging speech worldwide at a "Battle of the Bands" concert contest and destroy Wyld Stallyns' reputation forever.

With a minimum amount of effort, the robots succeed in killing off the two title characters. However, their spirits refuse to go quietly into the good night and face off against the Grim Reaper ( William Sadler ). While the evil robots make time with the guys' princess babes, the ghosts of Bill and Ted need to find a way to resurrect themselves, defeat the evil robot "usses" and stop Chuck De Nomolos. To do so, they must go through Heaven and Hell (literally, plus Kirk's Rock ) to face their personal demons and gather allies to their cause.

The second movie features the following totally metal tropes:

• Achievements in Ignorance : It's indicated in the ending montage that Death somehow won the Indy 500. On foot. ("I didn't know I could run that fast.")
• All Part of the Show : Everyone not directly involved thinks that the climactic battle is just a really elaborate stage show.
• And That's Terrible : Bill and Ted have to mug some people in Heaven, and they admit it was not a good thing.
• Artistic License – Space : The picture that accompanies the "Wyld Stallyns to Play Mars" has a picture of Jupiter's moon Io.
• Artistic License – Sports : The aforementioned Grim Reaper winning the Indy 500 on foot .
• Back from the Dead : Evil Robot Bill & Ted kill the originals, but they eventually come back to life after beating Death in a number of board games .
• Badass Creed : De Nomolos and his followers have a pretty impressive villainous one: "What is the fuel?" " FEAR! " "What is the engine?" " DISCIPLINE! " "What is the ideal?" " ORDER! " "And how do we achieve it?" " DEATH TO BILL AND TED! "
• Big Red Devil : The duo flag the attention of a gigantic one in Hell who sends them to live their own personal Hells.
• Bound and Gagged : The princesses by the Evil Robot Bill & Ted near the end, along with Unwilling Suspension since they're goign to drop them from the rafters after the show ends.
• Burger Fool : Off-screen, Bill and Ted work for "Pretzels and Cheese" in order to support the band.
• Butt-Monkey : Death of all people. He is repeatedly humiliated, first when Bill and Ted wedgie him to escape. Then he undergoes a series of embarrassing defeats at board games, is forced to appear before God in drag, suffers repeated comedic injuries on Earth, and finally he can't even catch a break when he becomes part of the band that saves the world. His solo albums fail spectacularly, and was also part of a lip-sync scandal. At least he won the Indianapolis 500 .
• The time machine arrives outside the Circle K, as in the first film, though without any particular reason this time (indeed, it's a different Circle K).
• Bill and Ted initially assume that the robots are future versions of themselves, referencing when they crossed paths with themselves in the first film.
• After Missy divorces Bill's father and marries Ted's, Bill can't think of anything to say, so he just repeats his Running Gag "Shut up, Ted" line from the first movie.
• Bill calls the evil robots dickweeds for killing them, referencing when Bill called a knight a "medieval dickweed" for apparently killing Ted.
• When Bill and Ted try to plead for their lives and tell the evil robots that they love them, the robots call them "fags," a callback to the first film, when Bill and Ted embrace, then call each other "fag."
• The boys again quote metal lyrics when asked to say something profound.
• When the camera pans down from the Builder's Emporium sign, you can see a sign further down for Oshman's Sporting Goods- the store that Genghis Khan "totally ravaged" at the mall in the first movie.
• The climax is again resolved by planning to go back in time to set things up after the climax is resolved.
• The Cameo : A number of musicians have cameos, including the members of Primus as themselves, "Big" Jim Martin of Faith No More playing himself Etc.  referred to as "Sir James Martin of the Faith No More Spiritual and Theological centre" , and bluesman Taj Mahal as heaven's gatekeeper.
• Celebrities Hang Out in Heaven : When Bill, Ted, and Death go to heaven to meet the universe's greatest inventor, they find Confucius , Benjamin Franklin , Albert Einstein , and George Washington playing charades with Station. Someone can also be heard asking " Marilyn " how she got into show business.
• Chess with Death : Parodied by having Bill and Ted best Death in a number of modern party and board games until he finally admits defeat.
• Confusing Multiple Negatives : When made to believe that the princesses have broken up with them, Bill describes the situation as "non-non-heinous", i.e., heinous. He later calls his personal hell "non-non-non-non-heinous" which, yes, still adds up to heinous.
• Counter Zany : "How do we defeat evil robot usses?" "By building good robot usses to fight them!"
• Covers Always Lie : Parodied when Bill and Ted complain that rock albums inaccurately portrayed Hell. "We got totally lied to by our album covers, man."
• Creation Sequence : Station assembles the Good Robot Usses in the back of a moving van.
• The credits describe the crew as "awesome", "bodacious", etc.
• Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon appear as the two male members of the seance.
• Director Peter Hewitt appears as the smoker at the hardware shop whom Death talks to.
• Crystal Spires and Togas : Subverted, as we learn that not everyone is happy to live in a future founded by a pair of hard rockers.
• Curb-Stomp Battle : The "Good Robot Usses" created by Station own the "Bad Robot Usses" created by Chuck De Nomolos. They uppercut their heads off their bodies, and a follow-up punch to the torso causes them to explode. Surprisingly the Bad Robot Usses are perfectly ok with this. Evil Ted: Dude, we may have met our match! Evil Bill: Kudos to you, good human usses!
• Darker and Edgier : As is evident by the titles. Whilst Excellent Adventure is a feel-good romp, Bogus Journey has the title characters a) facing robot terrorists from the future and b) dying and going to hell , even if it is still played for laughs and they get better eventually.
• Death Is Gray : After Bill and Ted are thrown off a cliff by their evil robot twins, they appear as ghosts with gray skin.
• Defeat Means Friendship : After having lost every game to Bill and Ted, Death becomes their ally who also has to obey their orders.
• Despite having a number of lines in the first film, Bill's dad only has a single reaction shot in which he looks forlornly at Missy.
• Ted's little brother Deacon had a substantial sideplot in the first film, but never shows up in the sequel. He's acknowledged only in Ted's personal Hell, when Ted steals an Easter basket with Deacon's name on it.
• Bill & Ted in between the time they die and go to Hell. At times you can tell they're just wearing grey paint and greyscale versions of their clothing.
• Also with Colonel Oats in hell.
• It turns out that Death is actually a pretty nice guy once you get to know him, and the climax of the movie has him joining Bill and Ted's band.
• Bill and Ted also have a rather casual conversation with God just before returning to the living world.
• Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu? : When Bill & Ted are cast into an underground maze of doors containing their worst fears by the Devil, Ted is unimpressed by the big guy's taunts... The Devil: Choose your eternity! (evil laugh) Dead Ted: Choose your own, you FAG !! The Devil: (angry roar) (Ted is sent flying into a wall)
• Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu? : "I can't believe we Melvined Death!" (high five)
• Do Not Adjust Your Set : De Nomolos commandeers the world's televisions to deliver his evil speech.
• Don't Fear the Reaper : Bad attitude? Yes! Evil? No! Combines with Waxing Lyrical after the two beat Death and he has to lead them to Heaven. Dead Bill: Hey, Ted — Don't Fear the Reaper ! Death: I heard that!
• Drill Sergeant Nasty : Colonel Oats, the head and namesake of Oats Military Academy where Ted's dad is threatening to send him in the first movie. He's only mentioned in the first film; we first meet him in the sequel at a party and he's still offering a place for Ted at the academy . However, when the duo goes to hell, the first punishment they go through is being at military school where he's this trope in full force and demands that they "get down and give me infinity". Then again, they are in HELL...
• Earth Is the Center of the Universe : Mocked when Bill and Ted ask God for help in protecting their girlfriends, and are sent to meet the smartest man in the universe... who turns out to be two squat, large-nosed Martians. Or one big one, depending... Death: Did you assume that the most brilliant scientist in the entire universe would be from Earth ?
• Embarrassing First Name : At the end of the film, De Nomolos' first name is revealed as "Chuck". Which isn't really that bad a name, unless you're trying to be an Evil Overlord .
• Evil Knockoff : The duo's evil robot duplicates from the future.
• Evil Mentor : Subverted with De Nomolos, although the viewers are meant to think he was this to Rufus for most of the film. Rufus calls him "my old teacher" in the opening scene and the villain responds by calling him "my favorite pupil." Rufus later explains at the end of the film that De Nomolos was actually his old gym teacher.
• Evil Wears Black : De Nomolos and his soldiers all wear black.
• Exact Words : Just before using the Good Robot Usses to destroy the Evil Robot Usses, the real Bill & Ted say to the ERU's "Catch YOU later Bill and Ted!" The GRU's knock the ERU's heads off, and Bill and Ted catch them a few moments later.
• Exposed Extraterrestrials : Station. He even provides the page image. His nudity gets Lampshaded when the boys comment on his butt.
• Faint in Shock : The princesses reaction when Evil Bill & Ted reveal that they're robots.
• Famous, Famous, Fictional : Rufus introduces some guest speakers from the past to his students: Johann Sebastian Bach , Jim Martin and Ria Paschelle, a woman from the 23rd century who invented the statiophonicoxygeneticamplifiagraphiphonideliverberator.
• Fantastic Time Management : How Bill and Ted actually end up learning to play.
• Field Trip to the Past : Literally, after introducing guest speakers from the past, Rufus reminds the class about an upcoming field trip to Babylonia.
• Fire and Brimstone Hell : This is how hell appears when they first arrive: breaking rocks eternally under the watchful eye of Satan , as well as a chamber filled with many forms of Ironic Hell .
• Flowery Insults : Colonel Oats throws some fairly bizarre ones at them in hell. "You petty, base, bully-bullocked bugger billies!" "You're not strong, you're silky boys! Silk comes from the butts of Chinese worms." "I'll eat you up like the warm, toasty little buttercakes you are!" "You two-toed, no-nosed salamanders!"
• Fluffy Cloud Heaven : Well, more "Plastic Fluorescent-Backlit Clouds" Heaven, which the duo describe as "most atypical".
• Freeze-Frame Bonus : Some of the magazines and newspapers that appear detailing Would Stallyns' career in the credits are dated 2691. Maybe they get reprinted in the future.
• From Nobody to Nightmare : De Nomolos apparently went from a gym teacher to a terrorist leader and would-be world-conqueror, who planned to alter history so that the future would match his own - likely dystopian - political structure. A pretty big jump.
• At the Builder's Emporium, Death tells a smoker "See you real soon". After he passes by, you can see the smoker (played by the director) do a Double Take and quickly stub out his cigarette.
• The bizarre costumes of the people in heaven are often jokes in themselves, including one man who walks around heaven in a boxing outfit.
• Fusion Dance : The Stations can body-slam each other to form a larger, muscular STATION.
• Future Me Scares Me : Sort of. The duo quickly become afraid of what they think are their future selves, before it's revealed that they're actually evil robot doubles.
• Future Slang : "Station" is used as both a greeting and a positive adjective (in the fashion of "awesome"). Though at the concert at the end of the film, Ted says it can mean anything.
• God : Appears as a bright light in a roughly anthropoid shape who says very little.
• God Is Good : When Bill and Ted ask for help, he directs them to Station without question, even after they admit to mugging three people who had just ascended to heaven for their clothes.
• Graceful Loser : Evil Bill and Evil Ted of all people, when the Good Robot Usses charge them in the climactic concert. Not only do they congratulate the originals, but they seemingly concede defeat by tilting their heads back to give the Good Robots a better target. Evil Ted: Dude, we may have met our match! Evil Bill: Kudos to you, good human usses! Evil Bill and Evil Ted: Catch you later, Bill and Ted!! Bill and Ted: Catch you later, Bill and Ted!! (Good Robot Usses punch heads off Evil Robot Usses)
• The Grim Reaper : Starts off as a minor antagonist, but soon joins the guys. Later wins the Indy 500 on foot and gets caught in a lip-syncing scandal .
• Groin Attack : Variant: Bill and Ted use a Melvin, a front-side wedgie, on The Grim Reaper . Later the Reaper does it to De Nomolos.
• Happily Ever After : The end credits of the film feature a montage of newspaper headlines chronicling Bill & Ted's rise to fame and their music bringing about world peace and a new scientific renaissance while playing the song "God Gave Rock And Roll To You" by KISS . It's a very happy ending.
• In the future, Rufus brings Johann Sebastian Bach to his class.
• In heaven, there are various historical personages, including Albert Einstein and Benjamin Franklin.
• Hollywood Board Games : Death is such a Sore Loser that he keeps asking the boys for rematches and when that doesn't work, asks to play another board game. They go from Cluedo to Battleship to Twister .
• Homage : The second movie parodies the Ingmar Bergman film The Seventh Seal where a Knight plays chess with the Grim Reaper for his soul. Bill and Ted play him with classic board games and Twister.
• Homemade Inventions : The Good Robot Usses.
• How Many Fingers? : Parodied when Ted asks his evil robot how many fingers he's about to hold up. When the robot announces "three," Ted indeed holds up three fingers. The comedy is whether Ted only held up three fingers because the robot said so.

• Bill and Ted's long fall to Hell, which takes so long they begin playing "20 Questions" to pass the time. To be fair, it was a pretty short game: Dead Bill: Hey, you wanna play Twenty Questions? Dead Ted: Okay! I got one! Dead Bill: Are you a mineral? Dead Ted: Yeah! Dead Bill: Are you a tank? Dead Ted: Whoa! Yeah!
• When this film airs on television, a commercial break is often placed in the middle of this scene, which probably makes the whole gag funnier .
• If You Die, I Call Your Stuff Dead Bill: Ted. Dead Ted: Yeah? Dead Bill: If I die, you can have my Megadeth collection. Dead Ted: But, dude, we're already dead. Dead Bill: Oh. Well then they're yours, dude!
• Ironic Echo : "Catch ya later, Bill and Ted!" First by the Evil Robots to Bill and Ted, then by Bill and Ted to the Evil Robots. Both times, the party spoken to is about to die.
• Ironic Hell : Both boys experience this after passing through Fire and Brimstone Hell for a bit.
• It's Been Done : The plot is a blend of Terminator and, of all things, KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park - which featured KISS battling Evil Robot KISS. Seriously.
• Kick the Dog : Evil Bill and Ted repeatedly try to kill animals. The Evil Robots' groping of the heroes' (rather chaste) princess girlfriends also counts in various ways.
• Kill and Replace : Evil Robot Bill & Ted are programmed to murder the originals, wreck their relationships, and ruin their performance at the battle of the bands. They even succeed, up to a point .
• Kirk's Rock : Lampshaded: Just before the boys meet the Evil Robots, they're watching that particular episode of Star Trek on TV. When the Evil Usses drag the boys up to the rock to kill them, we even get a recreation of the dramatic zoom out from Trek .
• Knight of Cerebus : The humor tones down a bit whenever De Nomolos appears. He's very straightforward and serious, though he ends up being not much of a threat in the end.
• Larynx Dissonance : Evil Bill changes his voice to one of the medieval babes to give Bill and Ted a fake breakup call, in order to lead them into the trap where they will be killed.
• LOL, 69 : Bill & Ted have crossed out the number on their apartment door and spray-painted a large "69" next to it.
• Losing Your Head : The Evil Usses' version of basketball. They end up losing their heads for good thanks to the Good Robot Usses.
• Make Wrong What Once Went Right : Chuck De Nomolos' motive.
• Manly Facial Hair : Bill develops a beard during his and Ted's 16 months of training as a way of showing how much they have toughened up, although the newspaper photos indicate he shaves it off later.
• May–December Romance : Missy and Ted's father, who's even older than Bill's father from the first movie. And then she hooks up with Chuck De Nomolos at the end of that movie. The girl Really Gets Around .
• Meaningful Name : Ms. Wardroe is actually a disguise of Rufus's .
• Men Can't Keep House : Bill and Ted's apartment is a showcase of this trope.
• Mirror Match : The Evil Robot Bill and Ted vs. the Good Robot Usses.
• Monochrome Apparition : When Bill and Ted are dead, they're grayish-blue.
• Mugged for Disguise : Bill and Ted do this to people in heaven!
• Ted mentions the princesses are celebrating their fifth year in the 20th century. They arrived in the first movie which was set in 1988 so Bogus Journey must be set in 1993 when it was released in 1991.
• The Great Leader's comment in Bill & Ted Face the Music about the concert happening 25 years ago would put Bogus Journey as happening in 1995.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain : Ties in with the Stable Time Loop . Chuck De Nomolos decides to broadcast his defeat of Bill and Ted live to the world. After he's defeated, this only ensures that Bill and Ted broadcast their first performance live all over the world, hence beginning the cycle of their music creating the future Utopia .
• Obvious Stunt Double : At one point in Bill and Ted's apartment, Alex Winter steps off his mark and reveals the face of Keanu Reeves ' body double.
• The One Thing I Don't Hate About You : Rufus mentions to the protagonists that De Nomolos was the sit-up champion of the 27th Century. At least that seems to be a compliment, it might have been meant as a goofy version of How the Mighty Have Fallen .
• Orifice Invasion : Played for Laughs when Bill and Ted's ghosts try possessing two men. They squeeze in through the ears. "I totally possessed my dad!"
• Overly Long Gag : When they get sent to hell. "Dude, this is a totally deep hole."
• Overly Long Scream : Bill and Ted fall down a pit to hell, screaming the whole way, but the pit is so deep that they eventually get tired of repeatedly screaming and start playing 20 Questions.
• Our Founder : Bill and Ted, in the future.
• Out-Gambitted : The climax of the film. Both sides' plans rely on the premise that they won the current battle in the present, which would allow them to manipulate time afterwards and rig the battle in the present to their favor. "The future belongs to the winner."
• Outside-Context Problem : No one, least of all Bill and Ted themselves, saw evil duplicates of themselves coming back to kill them, under orders from an attempted revolutionary with plans to turn the future Earth into a dystopia . But in turn, Evil B&T and De Nomolos likely didn't forsee B&T allying with the Grim Reaper and a duo of Martians to stop them, and constructing good robotic duplicates to defeat the evil ones.
• Perfect Pacifist People : Bill and Ted's future society appears to be one of these.
• Pokémon Speak : The Stations use the word "Station" for everything.
• The Power of Rock : Exaggerated, as the effects of Wyld Stallyns' music are shown via a newspaper montage at the end of the film (set to KISS 's "God Gave Rock 'n Roll To You"): Wyld Stallyns Tour Midwest; Crop Growth Up 30% Bill & Ted Tour Mideast; Peace Achieved Stallyns Use World Nuclear Arsenal to Fuel Amplifiers Air Guitar Found to Eliminate Smog Bill & Ted Named Sportsmen of the Decade Rumored W.S. Split; DOW Drops 600 Points W.S. Split A Hoax - DOW To Record High Bill and Ted: The Movie Wyld Stallyns to Play Mars - "Station!"
• The patio table at the princesses' birthday is littered with Pepsi cans. They also hold Pepsi cans in the previous scene.
• An Establishing Shot lingers on the Builder's Emporium sign to make sure you know exactly which hardware store Bill and Ted frequent. Sadly, Builder's Emporium folded two years after the film released.
• Profound by Pop Song : Bill, Ted and Death try and get into Heaven and are asked to answer what the meaning of life is for entry. They answer by quoting "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" by Poison and it works!
• Really Gets Around : Missy was married to Bill's dad in the first film, but has left him and married Ted's dad by the sequel. She also flirts with Col. Oats, and the end credits reveal that she has left Ted's dad for Chuck De Nomolos.
• Retroactive Preparation : B&T manage to turn this trope into a martial art during the showdown with De Nomolos.
• Ridiculously Human Robots : The Evil Robot Bill and Ted, who can apparently get "full-on robot chubb[ies]" from looking at a picture of the guys' girlfriends.
• Robotic Reveal : Bill punching his robotic evil twin. "Oww! You're metal, dude!"
• Robot Me : There are Bill and Ted's evil robot copies from the future, and then Station improvises another robot Bill and Ted to counter them.
• Rule of Funny : The movie runs on this. Bill growing a ZZ Top beard in 16 months is the least implausible joke in the film.
• San Dimas Time : Interestingly, the sequel seems to throw this out by allowing Bill and Ted to spend 16 months to get guitar lessons, then return to the present to win the concert. One might assume that they have to jump 16 months into the future after they win the concert, but the news articles that display over the credits don't suggest that they vanished for 16 months after their first performance.
• Sdrawkcab Name : Chuck De Nomolos is this for writer Ed Solomon.
• Sdrawkcab Speech : Additionally, the exorcism chant is "Ed and Chris [Matheson, Solomon's co-writer] will rule the world", spoken backwards: D'lrow eht elur l'liw sirhc d'na de.
• The Death subplot is a direct parody of Death from The Seventh Seal .
• Bill and Ted watch the "Arena" episode of Star Trek: The Original Series , featuring Kirk's Rock . They are then taken to Kirk's Rock to be killed by the evil robots.
• Ted possesses his father, "Like from The Exorcist 1 and 3."
• The boys quote Poison 's "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" when asked the meaning of life.
• Les Claypool of Primus wears a The Residents shirt onstage.
• Station is playing charades and miming the film Smokey and the Bandit 3 . Death guesses " Butch and Sundance: The Early Years ."
• Bill's waist-length beard in the very end is obviously a nod to ZZ Top .
• Something That Begins with "Boring" : Bill and Ted play 20 Questions while falling into Hell and waiting to land.
• Sore Loser : The Grim Reaper when he initially loses. It take several losses to the boys for him to finally give in to their demands.
• Spinning Paper : Seen during the end credits.
• Squick : An in-universe example: Death gets jealous of all the praise Station is getting and starts fishing for compliments. When Ted says Station has "an excellently huge Martian butt", Death says, "Don't overlook my butt. I work out all the time. Reaping burns a lot of calories." Bill and Ted visibly shudder at this.
• Stable Time Loop : Chuck De Nomolos is basically responsible for Wyld Stallyns' world fame, broadcasting their Battle of the Bands appearance to the world by accident in his attempt to Take Over the World . Also used tactically in the fight.
• Sufficiently Advanced Alien : Station, despite his (their?) goofy appearance.
• Tagline : "Once... They Made history. Now... They Are History."
• Technology Porn : Station's assembly of the Good Robot Usses is a Homemade Inventions version of this trope.
• Throw the Dog a Bone : Despite his Butt-Monkey status, Death finds himself enjoying the company of Bill and Ted and being part of the band. Given that much of his grim nature appears to cover up severe insecurity and loneliness, Bill and Ted are probably the first friends he'd ever had. Also, it's shown during the news montage that he managed to win the Indianapolis 500 on foot . His response? " I didn't know I could run that fast ."
• Time-Passage Beard : Bill and Ted have beards after returning from a 16-month guitar training sabbatical. Bill somehow managed to grow a ZZ Top beard in that time .
• To Hell and Back
• Took a Level in Badass : At the end of the movie, Bill and Ted use the time machine to take 16 months of intensive guitar training, going from being bad on a horrendous level to astonishingly good. Not to mention using and exploiting the Retroactive Preparation trope to its' fullest extent to stop De Nomolos.
• Treacherous Advisor : Parodied. Early on, Chuck De Nomolos is recognized by Rufus and calls him his old teacher. Turns out, he was a gym teacher.
• Trust Password : Double subverted; when the heroes' Evil Twins arrive, Ted is suspicious, but Bill convinces him to trust them. Then Ted trusts his robot counterpart after it passes a How Many Fingers? test.
• Unfolding Plan Montage : The main characters face off against the Big Bad , each telling their plans and how they enacted them, resulting in weirdness out-of-flashback as Bill, Ted, and De Nomolos, all have time travel devices.
• Unnaturally Blue Lighting : Bill and Ted are treated to this when they wake up in the afterlife, and later when they're in Death's chamber playing his games.
• Unusually Uninteresting Sight : Nobody seems to find it odd when Station and the Grim Reaper are wandering through Builder's Emporium.
• Uranus Is Showing : Bill and Ted say they admire Uranus when complimenting God , then chuckle.
• Vile Villain, Saccharine Show : Even in a Darker and Edgier movie played for laughs, De Nomolos is far more evil than something you'd expect from it. (He has a little humor potential, but it's all Black Humor .)
• Visual Pun : Bill and Ted echo back "Catch ya later, Bill and Ted!" to the Evil Robot Usses... and a few seconds later, do in fact catch the robots' flying heads.
• Wedgie : The characters give The Grim Reaper one.
• The Whole World Is Watching : The villain De Nomolos causes all the world's channels to watch his New Era Speech , but Bill and Ted are able to defeat him and then their future selves play their music for all the world to see, which makes them internationally famous. Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
• Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? : Averted in the comic and novel adaptation. Rather than the Xanatos Speed Chess battle with DeNomolos, the boys simply find the Self-Destruct Mechanism in Evil Robot B&T's heads and throw them to DeNomolos , killing him.
• The Next Sunday A.D. example above implies the movie is set in 1993. The newspaper and magazine articles that appear over the credits are mostly dated as the year of release, 1991. Some are dated 2691 but they're presumably future reprints.
• To make it more confusing, in Bill & Ted Face the Music (released and set in 2020) has the Great Leader saying the concert happened 25 years ago. Implying that Bogus Journey takes place in 1995.
• Xanatos Speed Chess : The final confrontation between Bill and Ted and DeNomolos.
• You Already Changed the Past : The entire climax is Bill, Ted, and Chuck De Nomolos performing dueling versions of this. Except that, as Bill points out, only the winner can change history, so all the things the villain thought he planted were just decoys B&T placed to lull him into a false sense of security .

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Evil Bill and Ted are the robotic henchmen of Chuck De Nomolos , and the secondary antagonists in the 1991 comedy sequel movie Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey .

Like their human counterparts, they are portrayed by Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves.

Biography [ ]

The film starts off in the utopian future created by Bill and Ted's music, which De Nomolos hates. Rufus was teaching a history class when De Nomolos' army interrupted. De Nomolos tells Rufus that he plans to go back in time and change everything with his secret weapons, which at first appear to be Bill and Ted to the class's surprise until they reveal themselves to be robots. They are programmed with the same personality as the original Bill and Ted, except they are outright evil. Their mission is to kill Bill and Ted, take over and ruin their lives, then give the speech they were going to give at the San Dimas Battle of the Bands but totally different. They used the phone booth to go back in time. Rufus tried to stop them with a grappling hook shaped like a guitar, but seemingly wound up lost in the circuits of time.

As soon as they arrive in the present, Evil Bill used the phone booth and called Bill mimicking his girlfriend Joanna's voice. He made them believe that their girlfriends were breaking up with them for being losers. Then they sent the phone booth back to the future.

They arrived at Bill and Ted's apartment. Bill and Ted thought that it was themselves from the first movie, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure . Evil Bill and Ted lies to Bill and Ted and talked them into a plan into getting them back together with their girlfriends, whom they never broke up with in the first place. They drove them to the Vasquez Rocks, where they revealed that it was all a hoax and that they were going to kill them. They were programmed to do it, and they wanted to do it. They revealed that they were really robots and took them to the top of the cliff. Bill and Ted tried to talk Evil Bill and Ted out of killing them by saying that they love them but failed, and they threw them off to their deaths below.

They arrived in Bill and Ted's respective fiancées, Joanna and Elizabeth's apartment, where they acted like jerks to them. They wanted them to put out with them, making them break off their engagement. While Bill and Ted traveled through the afterlife, gone through Hell, beat Death through a series of games and had him become their willing servant, and went to Heaven where they met an alien scientist named Station that had the ability to split into twins, Evil Bill and Ted trashed their apartment. When the Battle of the Bands was coming closer, they found Joanna and Elizabeth at Missy's (Ted's stepmom) place. Missy tried to stop them from taking Joanna and Elizabeth but was knocked out by Evil Ted's bad breath. Both Evil Bill and Ted revealed to the girls that they were robots, causing them both to faint.

Meanwhile, the original Bill and Ted came back to life along with Death and Station joining them and had a plan to fight the evil robots by making good robots to fight them. With Death and Station helping them, they gathered some supplies to help Station build the robots. Station merged from twins to a big alien so he can build the good robots. The robots came to life to "fight evil usses and save the babes".

At Battle of the Bands, Evil Bill and Ted were preparing to kill Joanna and Elizabeth in the big finale. When it was time for Wild Stallions to take the stage, they were about to give a speech to the audience, but they were interrupted by the original Bill and Ted, who promptly engaged them with the good robots. Seeing the good robots, Evil Bill and Ted were amazed, declaring that they had met their match, and honorably bid their human counterparts farewell, just before the original Bill and Ted programmed the good robots to charge in and knock Evil Bill & Ted's heads off with one punch, and then punch their headless bodies, destroying them. Bill and Ted rescued Joanna and Elizabeth, and they hugged each other.

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1991 Directed by Peter Hewitt

Once... they made history. Now... they are history.

Amiable slackers Bill and Ted are once again roped into a fantastical adventure when De Nomolos, a villain from the future, sends evil robot duplicates of the two lads to terminate and replace them. The robot doubles actually succeed in killing Bill and Ted, but the two are determined to escape the afterlife, challenging the Grim Reaper to a series of games in order to return to the land of the living.

Keanu Reeves Alex Winter William Sadler Joss Ackland Pam Grier George Carlin Amy Stoch Jim Martin Hal Landon Jr. Annette Azcuy Sarah Trigger Chelcie Ross Taj Mahal Robert Noble Hal Landon Sr. Eleni Kelakos Roy Brocksmith J. Patrick McNamara Dana Stevens Valerie Spencer Kathryn Miller Carol Rosenthal Chris Matheson Ed Solomon Anthony G. Schmidt Brendan Ryan William Thorne Ed Gale Arturo Gil Show All… Tom Allard Terry Finn John Ehrin Don Forney Michael Chambers Taco Falcon Ed Cambridge Tad Horino Peter Hewitt Les Claypool Tim Alexander Larry Lalonde Tanya Newbould Frank Welker Tony Cox Tery Lockett Michael Mills Dennis Ott Tom Stern

Director Director

Peter Hewitt

Producers Producers

Scott Kroopf Paul Aaron Chris Matheson Erwin Stoff Ed Solomon

Executive Producers Exec. Producers

Robert W. Cort Ted Field Rick Finkelstein Connie Tavel Barry Spikings Stephen Deutsch

Writers Writers

Ed Solomon Chris Matheson

Original Writers Original Writers

Casting casting, editor editor.

David Finfer

Cinematography Cinematography

Oliver Wood

Production Design Production Design

David L. Snyder

Art Direction Art Direction

Gregory Pickrell

Set Decoration Set Decoration

Chris Butler Robin Peyton

Stunts Stunts

Glenn R. Wilder Scott Wilder Pat Romano

Composers Composers

David Newman Steve Vai

Costume Design Costume Design

Marie France

Makeup Makeup

Robin Beauchesne

Hairstyling Hairstyling

Carol A. O'Connell

Orion Pictures Nelson Entertainment Interscope Communications

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19 jul 1991, 09 sep 1991, 03 jan 1992, 11 jul 1992, 13 oct 1992, 25 apr 1993, 16 jun 1993, 07 feb 2007, 04 jan 2003, releases by country.

• Theatrical PG
• Theatrical L
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• Theatrical 12

Netherlands

• Theatrical 6 DVD

South Korea

• Theatrical 15
• Theatrical 7

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So bananas. These two films have always been paralleled for me - but Bogus Journey is the real deal, baby. 

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If I die, you can have my Megadeth collection.

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At the beginning we aren't aware of it, but this film also undermines itself, becoming impossible in an effort to explain itself.  But let us not begin there; we will begin in the future, three years after Rufus made his fateful trip to 1988 to help Bill & Ted, in 2691.

We are introduced to De Nomolos, an impressively threatening villain within the comic setting played by British actor Joss Ackland.  (He has appeared in quite a few of the British television exports, including the Sherlock Holmes mystery The Copper Beeches , but will be best known to American audiences for his turn as the South African diplomat in Lethal Weapon 2 .)  De Nomolos despises the relaxed freedom of the future, and wishes to impose order on the chaos.  His plan:  destroy Bill & Ted before they can become the famous band Wyld Stallyns , and so undermine all of history.

You already see the problem.  As has been said innumerable times on this web site, any effort to intentionally alter history will either fail or create an infinity loop.  If De Nomolos succeeds, he will have undone seven hundred years of history so completely that the probability of his own existence in the altered timeline is statistically insignificant.  (At roughly four generations per hundred years, twenty-eight generations have passed.  The life or death of even one individual in the first generation could so alter future progeny as to completely change most of the world's population in that time, and the changes made by Bill & Ted are expected to change the entire world drastically in that generation.)  Even if his success is not his undoing, he will have erased the reason for his actions and so will not make them.  Fortunately, he fails; how he fails becomes the story.  He begins by capturing a time machine and using it to transport his humanoid replicants, known as the Evil Bill and Ted robots, back to 1991 to prevent the boys from making their earth-shaking appearance at the Battle of the Bands concert in San Dimas.

Rufus manages to catch on to the time machine as it is leaving 2691; however, he does not appear with it in 1991.  We later learn that he was thrown back in time further, although the temporal distance is not clear.  This is important to the time travel situation in multiple ways which will be addressed later; but their are a few points to be made here.  First, as we noted in connection with Star Trek:  First Contact , Rufus' departure from the future is part of the same time travel event and so does not create a separate anomaly.  It is more complex this time, but the same in principle:  time stops at the point when the robots and Rufus leave 2691, and snaps back to the moment Rufus enters history.  It then progresses to the point when the robots enter history, but as they are part of the same departure they are also part of the same anomaly.  This avoids the classic problem of the second time traveler leaving after the first to fix that which was changed (the Time Cop problem, in which the moment at which the second traveler departs can never exist unless the first traveler failed to make the changes).  Between the arrival of Rufus and that of the robots, a critical story element occurs:  Wyld Stallyns is entered as the last band in the San Dimas Battle of the Bands.  A Mrs. Wardro is supervising this, and puts them at the end of the night, making excuses for including them.

At this point we are confronted with a new question about time.  Evil Bill & Ted contact the future and speak to De Nomolos.  The problem is not that they call him, but that he answers.  Each time he replies, a new anomaly is formed.  Observe it carefully:  Evil Bill and Ted contact him, but in doing so they have altered the past, because they were not there to make that call in the previous timeline.  Therefore seven hundred years must elapse before the De Nomolos who receives that call can exist.  Their method of communicating to him is in principle not any quicker than placing an ad in The Washington Post and waiting for him to read it.  Only after he has heard the transmission can he respond; but his response changes history, because it could not have reached the past in the timeline in which the robots first made the call.  Thus each time he answers them he creates a different seven hundred year history.

The temporal communications create another problem for us as well.  The moment the robots travel into history, De Nomolos must know that they have failed.  Every event which springs from their arrival in the past will have happened by the time he receives the first message.  If history has not been altered, he knows he has failed.

But the transmissions are more for story color than for plot.  They don't matter.  They succeed in keeping De Nomolos before us as a continuing threat behind the scenes.  The robots have been programmed, they know what to do, and they do not need additional instruction to fulfill their mission.  Thus we can ignore these transmissions from the future.

The robots kill Bill and Ted and begin to destroy their lives.  They again contact the future, which again is not important (but it does create another set of anomalies).  The boys face hell, defeat death (incidentally proving themselves masters of playing games), pick up a brilliant alien scientist (named Station) from heaven, and return to life (with death and the alien).  Again the robots contact the future, with the same results.

The alien scientist builds a pair of Good Bill and Ted robots who look terrible--until we realize that they aren't intended to be Bill and Ted, but to be Bill and Ted's alter-ego Rock'em Sock'em robots--another game (although I'm not sure how many younger viewers would recognize them).  Confronting their evil robot duplicates on stage at the Battle of the Bands, they use the Rock'em Sock'em robots to knock the heads off the evil twins and smash their internal controls.

We must diverge from the script at this point and consider the timeline.  No matter when De Nomolos realizes his robots have failed, he cannot make a trip back to this point in time until the rest of history has played itself out and stabilized.  Each of his transmissions to the past have set up a new repetition of history, each leading to these same events.  But he cannot in this timeline appear on the stage.  Therefore Bill S. Preston, Esquire, and Ted Theodore Logan must begin their concert.  They can make their speech about the places and times they've visited, and how wonderful it is to be here, but frankly their music is terrible.  Still, they have put on a fabulous show and played on Channel 12 in San Dimas, so they might win the contest on showmanship alone (very important in the popular music world--after all, even the Beatles used studio musicians on their albums).  They could very well create the future with which they are credited, although it will be a much slower process.  They do have the assistance of Death and the scientist Station to help with future shows, and the Rock'em Sock'em robots are still intact.  They can work up a good show.

But we are forced to look a step back and ask what would have happened had Evil Bill & Ted never arrived.  Sadly, the movie fails on this point, because they would have had no show, no message, no glory, and no future of peace and brotherhood which De Nomolos would wish to destroy.  However, this particular history--the one in which Bill and Ted appear at the Battle of the Bands but Evil Bill and Ted did not arrive to interfere--never happened.  But the reason for that has not yet been revealed.

As time reaches 2691, De Nomolos realizes that he has failed, and somehow steals a time machine to go back and do it himself.  Again, he faces the same hazards he created by sending back his robots, but he has not considered these.  De Nomolos then in large part intensifies the history he wishes to avoid:  He gives his enemies a world-wide audience they could not have had without him.

What happens in this timeline is highly speculative.  Bill and Ted decide to set up the sandbag, but it is not there.  In a bloody shoot-out, the police capture De Nomolos, but the boys escape.  At this point it might not matter whether or not they perform, because they have a time machine on stage, and they know how to use it.  Once De Nomolos is taken, they take the time machine, and quietly go back to set up the sandbag.  Note that if De Nomolos is not captured or killed, they cannot make the trip in his time machine, so they have to win; but as we discussed in Terminator , if something bad hasn't happened they will have no reason to do so.  Thus I suggest that De Nomolos hurt, possibly killed, some people other than the boys, leading them to decide to undo it.

This sets up another timeline, because on cue the sandbag falls, smashing the gun in De Nomolos' hand.  But the villain is infuriated, and Bill and Ted suddenly realize they should have included a cage.  He charges them, and is again taken prisoner.  Again Bill and Ted use the time machine on schedule, this time installing the sandbag and the cage.  De Nomolos is captured in the new timeline.

He suggests that he, too, can travel back and make changes.  He produces a key for the cage.  He then produces a second gun.  But Ted tells him that he's mistaken:  only the winner can go back and make changes.  This point is critical to our understanding of time travel:  in order to make the trip back to fix the past, you must have survived to make the trip.  Bill and Ted take credit for the key and the gun.  But this means two more trips.  First they must plant the key.  This strikes me as unlikely in the extreme.  De Nomolos appears to draw it from his pocket, which would mean they would have to have found him before he appeared on stage and planted it in his pocket; but he just came from the future, a time and place unknown to them, so it would not be easy to do.  But overlooking this logistical complication, they must have decided that it would make for a better show if they also provided him with a key.  He pops out and announces that he has arranged for another gun, but it isn't there, so he is taken by the police.  Again Bill and Ted go for the showmanship, and in this timeline add the gun, the fake gun which promotes them.  Finally De Nomolos is taken into custody, no one is hurt, and the show is perfect.

In each of these timelines the next event is that Bill and Ted are faced with the fact that they are lousy musicians asked to perform to the world.  The world has seen only the tail end of this show, but could still be impressed.  And these concerts don't matter too much, because in each case the boys are about to go back and make changes to history, so they'll get another first try.

And they still have the time machine, and they still know that this is a critically important moment in their lives.  So having bombed at the concert, they now abscond with the time machine, make that trip back to alter the past, and then begin their intensive training in how to play the guitar.  Oops--they create another anomaly, a complex N-jump in which most of the events of the film (those occurring in the twentieth century) are repeated precisely, when they take a time trip for a two-week honeymoon back in the fifteenth century.  Sixteen months in the future, they change history by going back to the stage and taking over the concert.  Note that this will be a self-sustaining loop.  Bill and Ted will now go into their intensive guitar training and come back in sixteen months, and since they will have made this change before the time machine was sent back from the future it will be part of the history remembered in the overarching anomaly.

And finally we discover what became of Rufus.  As we indicated, he was thrown back some time before the audition.  Finding himself in this time, he replaced Mrs. Wardro and took over supervising the Battle of the Bands concert so that Bill and Ted would have the right place in the show.  And this leads to the final disastrous anomaly.  We are forced to try to determine what would have happened to Wyld Stallyns without Rufus' intervention.  The answer, I fear, is worse than the first film:  they would not have participated in the Battle of the Bands, and so never would have achieved fame or changed the world.  In fact, we are pressed to conclude that everything Wyld Stallyns became was due to De Nomolus' efforts to destroy them.

And on this one point hinges the history of the first film as well.  Without Rufus to intervene and include them in this concert, the successful history report no longer matters; they remain unknown musicians, and no one will be sent back to assure their success (or even know that history was changed).  The initial non-appearance of Rufus as Mrs. Wardro will undo everything, and Bill and Ted will never have mattered.  The unknown traveler (the other Rufus) who helped the boys with their report thinking it wouldn't make any difference to history was right, and the original future is confirmed in an N-jump in which the utopia Rufus seeks to preserve and De Nomolos to destroy has never existed in any timeline.

I fear that Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey has repercussed to make their excellent adventure just as bogus.

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Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey Blu-ray Review: A Delightfully Goofy Sequel

The 26th Century utopia based on the music of Wyld Stallyns is threatened when Rufus’s (George Carlin) former teacher, the villainous De Nomolos (Joss Ackland), sends look-alike robots back to the past to kill Bill (Alex Winter) and Ted (Keanu Reeves) after the events of their Excellent Adventure , and alter the future.

Rather than simply repeating the story from the original film, returning screenwriters Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon offer audiences something different with this sequel. Instead of more time-traveling silliness, Bill and Ted have a metaphysical adventure as the robots are successful in killing them early on. The robots disrupt our heroes’ lives while their souls are left to try and save the day with help from Death (William Sadler), whom they initially escape by giving him a “melvin” and defeating him at a game in a nod to Bergman’s The Seventh Seal . And because that’s not weird enough, there are martians.

After unsuccessfully trying to communicate with Ted’s dad (Hal Landon Jr. in a hysterical scene where he acts and speaks like Ted), Missy (Amy Stock-Poynton), who is now Bill’s ex-step mom and Ted’s current step mom, sends them to Hell during a séance. Getting equal time, they also go to Heaven, before returning to San Dimas to battle their counterparts and other bands. (Keep an eye out for a quick cameo by Primus.) How the timeline proceeds is very funny and plays out during the closing credits.

Previously available from Shout Factory in Bill & Ted’s Most Excellent Collection , the sequel Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey is now a stand-alone release in a limited edition steelbook.

The video has a 1080p/MPEG-4 AVC encoded transfer are displayed at an aspect ratio of 1.85:1. The colors are strong, from natural hues to bright day-go neon costumes of the future that pop off the screen. Blacks are inky and whites are bright, contributing to a strong contrast. Fine texture details can be seen on objects.

Film grain and occasional dirt are evident. Also evident is the artificialness of some of the CGI effects. The audio is available in DTS-HD MA 5.1. Dialogue is clear. Effects are well placed around the soundscape. David Newman’s score also fills the speakers as do the rock sounds on the soundtrack. The track has a good dynamic range, and the bass supports the music and effects well.

Bonus features from 2016 include

• Audio Commentary with actor Alex Winter and producer Scott Kroopf
• Audio Commentary with writers Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon
• “Bill & Ted Go To Hell (HD, 52 min) – Revisiting A Bogus Journey” actors Alex Winter, Keanu Reeves, and William Sadler; producer Scott Kroopf; production designer David L. Snyder; composer David Newman; and others discuss the making of the film.
• Theatrical Trailer

Bogus Journey is a delightfully goofy comedy that succeeds in large part because of the two lead performers, who infuse a sweet charm at the core of their dim-witted characters. Fans should be delighted to see the boys back for another adventure, but if one didn’t like their first outing, not sure this sequel will be any more appealing. The Shout Factory Blu-ray delivers a pleasing high-def experience that makes this journey worth taking.

Gordon S. Miller

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From White Mischief to Bill & Ted, Joss Ackland was an actor of rare poise, range and pathos

Many will remember Ackland best on the big screen as plummy defenders of the realm, but this supremely polished star could also handle action, comedy – and a lot of cold war Soviets

J oss Ackland’s elegant bearing, natural aplomb and English theatrical training meant that he never lacked for work on stage or screen, largely playing authority and establishment figures — although these movie roles were a bit ironised and sent up in the parts he got offered in the 90s and 00s (to his reported chagrin).

But growing up, I was aware of him only via that rich, mellifluous voice of his, like melted butterscotch, in an inordinate number of TV ads: his tones were received pronunciation with a dash of naughtiness and insinuation, that of a TV newsreader or bishop who loved to savour a fine wine, or a decent cigar.

Ackland’s masterpiece had to be his performance in Michael Radford’s fierce and disturbing 1987 movie about the “Happy Valley” s et, White Mischief (a movie from the Thatcherite 80s which probably deserves a revival). It won Ackland a Bafa nomination while also propelling the exquisitely-cheekboned beauties of Charles Dance and Greta Scacchi into the public eye. Hugh Grant had a small role. Ackland was a supporting turn and perhaps a little upstaged by the younger eye-candy stars but he packed a devastating punch.

He was Sir Jock Delves Broughton, who was a senior member of the louche set of English expat aristocrats in Kenya during the second world war — leisured but jaded colonialists exploiting the handsome income from farming, with little to do but drink, take drugs and have affairs. And all this hedonism has had an added touch of decadence because of their apparent indifference to the Mother Country’s wartime hour of trial thousands of miles away. Sir Jock is married to the beautiful, highly-strung and decades younger Diana (Greta Scacchi) who married Jock on the understanding that she was allowed to have affairs — and is now carrying on a passionately erotic liaison with Josslyn Hay, Earl of Erroll, played by Dance.

Ackland’s Jock is a contemptible but tragic chump and cuckold, having to pretend he doesn’t notice or doesn’t mind, but is in fact eaten up with rage. It leads to violence and a terrible confrontation with Diana — a great scene with a shocking end. Ackland was every inch the establishment figure who hates himself for committing the cardinal English sin: making a fuss, and he hates his wife for forcing him to make a fuss. Ackland played it perfectly.

But Ackland could also play lower down the social scale — and he had a potent if small role in Michael Tuchner’s brutal 1971 Brit-crime film Villain with Richard Burton as the Kray-esque mobster having to deal with lowlifes and coppers: Ackland played the cringing crim who is partnered up with TP McKenna’s grandee gangster. Ackland was part of the blue-chip generation of beautifully spoken, classically trained British performers who lent substance and flair to many movies like this.

Ackland fans love him for his outrageous appearance in the Brit horror pulp classic The House that Dripped Blood from 1970, a portmanteau movie in which he co-starred with Peter Cushing in the story about his obsession with an exhibit in a waxwork museum which leads to a grotesque conclusion.

Some of the film work Ackland gamely took on was perhaps not out of the top drawer — as Ackland himself admitted — he was Matisse in James Ivory’s gruesome Surviving Picasso with Anthony Hopkins as the great artist, and actually found himself in two Demi Moore films while reportedly having no very great opinion of her abilities.

He could play fruity foreign accents with sly wit and relish and was a stoutly plausible presence as the Soviet ambassador in John McTernan’s The Hunt for Red October starring Sean Connery and Alec Baldwin in 1990— and in fact played another Russian, the Soviet defence minister this time, in Kathryn Bigelow’s K19: The Widowmaker .

In Lethal Weapon 2 he was the dodgy South African politician and smirking bad guy Arlen Rudd. Younger audiences were to discover Joss Ackland through his exotic performance as a freaky teacher-turned-terrorist of the future in Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey called Chuck De Nomolos who has an animus against our two laidback heroes.

Ackland was the model English character actor who probably found his best work on the stage or on television but had a robust career in the movies — and his Sir Jock Delves Broughton was a mighty achievement, exposing the hypocrisy and wretchedness in Britain’s entitled upper classes.

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Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991)

In a future shaped by the music of Wyld Stallyns, Bill and Ted must tackle a threat to their future success. THe struggling musicians face challenges while preparing for a crucial Battle of the Bands. With the help of unlikely allies, including Death and benevolent robots, they confront a new villain and his minions in a battle that transcends time, ultimately shaping their destiny and the fate of humanity.

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The second installation in the franchise, ‘Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey,’ follows hot on the heels of the successful first movie. The 1991 film marks the feature directorial debut of Pete Hewitt, and was initially titled ‘Bill & Ted Go to Hell.’ The movie spoofs famous works like ‘The Seventh Seal’ and ended up gaining a cult following. The premise follows a tyrant from the future who creates evil android doubles of the titular characters and sends them to eliminate the originals. Curious to know where to stream the film? We’ve got you covered, right after walking you through the plot.

What is Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey About?

De Nomolos, a villain from the future, pulls Bill and Ted into an adventure once again. He sends two robot duplicates to kill and replace the friends. The futuristic beings actually succeed in their mission, but Bill and Ted are determined to escape the afterlife. To that end, they challenge the Grim Reaper to a series of games. They intend to return to the land of the living.

Is Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey on Netflix?

Netflix is a preferred streaming site among most viewers. The platform maintains an excellent roster of films and shows, but ‘Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey’ is not on the site. Instead, you can check out ‘ When We First Met .’ Going back is not necessarily a bad thing, especially for the protagonist – who gets relegated to the friendzone by the girl of his dreams. He spends time wondering what went wrong, until he can revisit history and see the events unfurling that night, over and over again.

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Hulu keeps making smart additions to the platform, so viewers are always satiated. ‘Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey’ is not available for Hulu subscribers, but you can still stream ‘ Back to Christmas .’ Going back in time and altering it are two very different things, as Ali learns. She split with her fiance over the holidays, though they were supposed to get married on New Year’s Eve. When Ali gets her second chance, Ali is determined to do things differently and avoid the mistakes of the past. However, things are not quite as simple as she feels.

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Amazon Prime is known for sourcing content from around the world. Streamers are rarely dissatisfied with what’s offered. ‘Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey’ is not on Prime, as is, but subscribers can buy or rent and watch the movie. Check it out here .

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If you don’t have an Amazon Prime subscription, you need not worry. ‘Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey’ is available on several platforms if you wish to buy or rent and watch it. Check the movie out on iTunes , YouTube , Google Play , FandangoNow , and Vudu .

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Amiable slackers Bill and Ted are once again roped into a fantastical adventure when a villain from the future sends evil robot duplicates of the two lads to terminate and replace them.

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Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey Streaming: Watch & Stream Online via AMC Plus

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Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey is a sci-fi comedy that follows the adventures of two time travelers who have to fight futuristic evil robots. It was directed by Peter Hewitt, written by Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon, and released by Columbia Pictures in 1991.

Here’s how you can watch and stream Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey via streaming services such as AMC Plus.

Is Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey available to watch via streaming?

Yes, Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey is available to watch via streaming on AMC Plus.

The movie is set in a futuristic world in 2688, where a tyrant finds that two time travelers are striving to create a utopian society in the 20th century. Moreover, he plans to stop them by sending their robotic counterparts back in time to kill them.

The cast includes Keanu Reeves as Ted Logan, Alex Winter as Bill S. Preston, and William Sadler as the Grim Reaper. Additionally, it also includes Joss Ackland as De Nomolos, Pam Grier as Ms. Wardroe, and George Carlin as Rufus.

Watch Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey streaming via AMC Plus

Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey i s available to watch on AMC Plus. AMC Plus is a subscription-based streaming service that allows access to the libraries of AMC Networks. Moreover, the content can be accessed on smartphones, laptops, tablets, smart TVs, and other streaming devices.

You can watch via AMC Plus by following these steps:

Go to AMCPlus.com

Create a username and password

Choose your plan:

$8.99 per month

$83.88 per year

Users can also subscribe to AMC Plus as a channel via Amazon Prime Video if they are current subscribers to Amazon’s service.

The synopsis of Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey is as follows:

“Amiable slackers Bill and Ted are once again roped into a fantastical adventure when De Nomolos, a villain from the future, sends evil robot duplicates of the two lads to terminate and replace them. The robot doubles actually succeed in killing Bill and Ted, but the two are determined to escape the afterlife, challenging the Grim Reaper to a series of games in order to return to the land of the living.”

NOTE: The streaming services listed above are subject to change. The information provided was correct at the time of writing.

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