Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey (1991)

Wayne’s World (1992) heroes Wayne and Garth may have won at the box office, but Bill and Ted remain the original and best dudes.

This time around, the two airheads (played with enormous energy by Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves) are still trying to get their band together when they are murdered by their robotic doppelgangers sent from the future by the evil De Nomolos (Joss Ackland).

Their ghosts must then face the Grim Reaper (William Sadler) to earn the right to live and become the saviours of mankind.

They finally return to our Earthly realm to defeat the evil robots via a pair of Martians named Station.

This sequel lacks the inspired stupidity of the 1989 original, but it is still a hoot, especially in the knowing nods to Ingmar Bergman’s classic The Seventh Seal (1957) as the gormless duo play Battleship, Cluedo, NFL Super Bowl, Electric Football and Twister with the Reaper.

Reeves and Winter are once again cheerfully inept, and British director Peter Hewitt stages the spectacular set-pieces with some panache. Mostly excellent.

Ted/Evil Ted
Keanu Reeves
Bill/Evil Bill
Alex Winter
Rufus
George Carlin
De Nomolos
Joss Ackland
Joanna
Sarah Trigger
Elizabeth
Annette Azcuy
Captain Logan
Hal Landon Jr
Missy
Amy Stock-Poynton
Colonel Oats
Chelcie Ross
Grim Reaper
William Sadler
Gatekeeper
Taj Mahal
Miss Wardroe
Pam Grier

Director
Peter Hewitt

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