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Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey

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Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991)

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Reviews Counted:32

Fresh:19

Rotten:13

Average Rating:6.1/10

Runtime: 1 hr 38 mins

Genre: Comedies

Synopsis: 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... 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. [More]

Starring: Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, George Carlin, William Sadler

Starring: Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, George Carlin, William Sadler, Joss Ackland

Director: Peter Hewitt

Director: Peter Hewitt
Composer: David Newman

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For those who appreciate dude-speak and bozo humor, this is a very funny film.

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02/09/06
Time Out
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strained but goofy fun

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07/11/04
Rich Cline
Rich Cline
Shadows on the Wall

One of the most worthwhile sequels of recent years, maybe funnier than the original as it intelligently expands the potential for the surreal and it ties up all the loose ends managing, quite remarkably, to give pointlessness a purpose.

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06/27/08
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid

Mostly disappointing results.

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06/23/08
TV Guide's Movie Guide
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[The] filmmakers might have gotten more mileage if they'd rooted their adventure a bit more in reality.

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06/23/08
Variety Staff
Variety Staff
Variety
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Has there ever been a more perfect role for Keanu Reeves than floppy-haired, dim-brained high school slacker Ted "Theodore" Logan?

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12/03/06
Phil Villarreal
Phil Villarreal
Arizona Daily Star

...the various elements that made Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure such an unexpected delight are almost entirely absent here.

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07/16/05
David Nusair
David Nusair
Reel Film Reviews

awash in weird humor and outlandish gags

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04/04/05
Keith Breese
Keith Breese
Filmcritic.com

A riot of visual invention and weird humor that works on its chosen sub-moronic level, and on several others as well...

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10/23/04
Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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No review available.

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08/09/04
Nicolas Lacroix
Nicolas Lacroix
EnPrimeur.ca

Its best moments make up for its more mediocre ones.

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06/29/04
Luke Y. Thompson
Luke Y. Thompson
New Times

No review available.

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05/18/04
Ryan Cracknell
Ryan Cracknell
Movie Views

No review available.

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01/13/04
Michael Dequina
Michael Dequina
TheMovieReport.com

No review available.

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01/06/04
Greg Maki
Greg Maki
Star-Democrat (Easton, MD)

No review available.

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08/22/03
Nell Minow
Nell Minow
Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies

No review available.

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08/06/03
Rob Blackwelder
Rob Blackwelder
SPLICEDWire

It's hard not to appreciate two guys who can invest a cry of "Whoa!" with such pure ecstasy and who think that Joan of Arc is Noah's wife.

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05/20/03
Janet Maslin
Janet Maslin
New York Times
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More mindless airhead time-traveling fun. The hilarious William Sadler gives the best portrayal of Death since Bengt Ekerot in THE SEVENTH SEAL.

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03/21/03
Brian Mckay
Brian Mckay
eFilmCritic.com

EXCELLENT! (But not quite as EXCELLENT! as the first.)

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02/05/03
Alex Sandell
Alex Sandell
Juicy Cerebellum
 
 
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