Rotten
[The] filmmakers might have gotten more mileage if they'd rooted their adventure a bit more in reality.
Variety Staff, Variety
Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey
Once... they made history. Now... they are history.
1991 · 1h 33m · PG
Adventure, Comedy, Science Fiction
Directed by
Peter Hewitt
Overview
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.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
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56%
Tomatometer
Fresh
A riot of visual invention and weird humor that works on its chosen sub-moronic level, and on several others as well...
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Fresh
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.
Janet Maslin, New York Times
Fresh
Funnier and livelier than the original.
Desson Thomson, Washington Post
Fresh
A masterpiece of stupid.
Hal Hinson, Washington Post
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