Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey | | Cast : | Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, William Sadler | | Director : | Peter Hewitt | | Studio : | Mgm/Ua Studios | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby | | Released Date : | July 19, 1991 | | DVD Released Date : | December 04, 2001 | | Language : | Spanish (Dubbed), Portuguese (Dubbed), French (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Original Language), Spanish (Subtitled) | | Audience Rating : | PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | July 26, 2005 | | Summary | You're silky boys! | Content
 | Funny, Original, and non-heinus components come together to create Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey.
It's a little slow for my liking, but the "eternities" more than make up for any slow parts. A fun movie to rent, but I wouldn't buy it unless you've seen it before. Good for a lot of good laughs when you've got nothing to do. |
| Rating | | | Date | January 16, 2005 | | Summary | A wild, imaginative and eccentric fantasy | Content
| 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. |
| Rating | | | Date | October 19, 2004 | | Summary | Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991) | Content
| I loved the first one and I think, with the logic and plot of the first one, this follows through. We knew they changed the world, and in this sequel we see that. The actors do a good, since the lead characters are suppose to be, let's say less intelligent, but nice. I think this movie and the 1st one are classics. I like the grim reaper, his atitude during the movie, and the fact the he is the comic relief (okay so most of the movie is comic relief) Even if they are fun to watch to laugh at, it is worth it to watch. |
| Rating | | | Date | August 10, 2004 | | Summary | BETTER THAN THE ORIGINAL | Content
| THIS TIME, BILL & TED GET KILLED BY EVIL LOOKALIKE ROBOTS. WHAT FOLLOWS IS A JOURNEY INTO THE AFTERLIFE IN WHICH THEY MEET THE REAPER, TRY TO SAVE THEIR GIRLFRIENDS, AND MORE. THIS IS EVEN BETTER AND FUNNIER THAN THE ORIGINAL MOVIE IS, WHICH IS RARE IN MOVIES! IF YOU STILL HAVEN'T SEEN THIS SEQUEL YET, I'D ADVISE YOU TO DO SO. |
| Rating | | | Date | June 05, 2004 | | Summary | It's a great movie. | Content
| I love this movie. It's very funny, it has references to metal bands, and it's kinda like Terminator with the evil robots from the future. Terminator Bill and Ted! I think that could have worked besides Evil Robot Bill and Ted. Terminator is also a good movie. Buy that and this movie. Ha ha. I've watched this thing eighteen times since I bought it.
It's funny because a lot of the times Bill and Ted look like they are so stoned in the movie with their facial expressions and valley talk. And it if you smoke, watch this movie under the influence. You won't be disappointed.
This movie is also touching and has a message; Treat people nicely and don't judge them. "Be excellent to each other!" It's just flat out a good movie guys. |
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