Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey is another one of my comfort movies. Unlike most sequels, I found Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey to be just as good as the original.
Summary:
Although the distant future is a better place thanks to Wyld Stallyns, not everyone likes Wyld Stallyns. In the future, De Nomolos and his followers send evil robot versions of Bill and Ted into the past to kill Bill and Ted before they become world popular in the Battle of the Bands. Meanwhile, Bill and Ted are living normal lives after passing high school. Things are going well for them, when they are killed by the evil robot versions of themselves. They venture through hell and heaven, gaining allies in the Grim Reaper and the genius alien, Station. With the help of their newfound friends, they return in time to destroy the evil robot versions of themselves and perform in the Battle of the Bands.
Review:
Like Excellent Adventure, Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey is also one of my favorite movies. Bill and Ted are basically the same goofy characters they were in Excellent Adventure. Unlike the previous film, however, they don't travel through time, but through life and death, meeting interesting new characters in the afterlife. I especially enjoyed the Grim Reaper, because he is one of the funniest things about this movie.
I noticed that his appearance is very similar to the Grim Reaper in The Seventh Seal (top-The Seventh Seal, bottom-Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey). In that film, however, the Reaper is portrayed as very melancholy and serious. I don't know if everybody pictures the Reaper in the same way, or if he was supposed to resemble the Reaper from The Seventh Seal and be a funny parody from that film (especially since he has a European accent), but I enjoyed it either way.
Although it has been several years since Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey was released, there is currently a third Bill and Ted film in the works. I'm not sure how far along it is right now, but anyone looking for information should go to: http://www.billandted.org/
Man you seem to know a lot of great films huh? I never have watched any of them so far but looking from the trailer of that movie it looks fun to watch :)
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