Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991)
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57% of critics liked it
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59% of users liked it
(212,654 ratings)
Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey find the two obtuse pals battling The Grim Reaper, God, robots, great philosophical questions, and girls -- although not necessarily in that order. In this loose parody of the Terminator movies, directed by Peter Hewitt, the ultimate has happened -- at Bill and Ted… More Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey find the two obtuse pals battling The Grim Reaper, God, robots, great philosophical questions, and girls -- although not necessarily in that order. In this loose parody of the Terminator movies, directed by Peter Hewitt, the ultimate has happened -- at Bill and Ted University of the future, for many years now the people of the world have been "excellent to each other." But fed-up with Bill and Ted's peaceful world and even more fed up with heavy metal, the evil De Nomolos (Joss Ackland) decides to do something about it. De Nomolos creates a cyborg Bill and Ted, who travel back in time to kill the original Bill and Ted, win the Battle of the Bands and pave the way for the hellish reign of De Nomolos. In the past of 1990, Bill (Alex Winter) and Ted (Keanu Reeves) are immediately dispatched by the time-traveling cyborgs. And while the cyborgs Bill and Ted make time with the real Bill and Ted's girls (Sarah Trigger and Annette Azcuy) and prepare to take the real Bill and Ted's place in the Battle of the Bands, Bill and Ted are forced to deal with Hell ("Just like an Iron Maiden album cover"), the Grim Reaper (William Sadler), and God himself. When Bill and Ted are asked the secret of the universe, they get it right and as a reward a pair of Martians construct a set of "good" Bill and Ted robots to go head-to-head with the "bad" Bill and Ted robots at the Battle of the Bands. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi
- Directed By
- Peter Hewitt, Alex Winter
- Written By
- Chris Matheson, Ed Solomon
- Genres
- Action & Adventure, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Comedy
- In Theaters
- Jul 19, 1991 Wide
- Studio
- Orion Pictures Corp.
Critic Reviews
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Variety Staff, Variety
[The] filmmakers might have gotten more mileage if they'd rooted their adventure a bit more in reality.
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, Time Out
For those who appreciate dude-speak and bozo humor, this is a very funny film.
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Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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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Janet Maslin, New York Times
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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Desson Thomson, Washington Post
Funnier and livelier than the original.
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Cast
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Keanu Reeves
as Ted "Theodore" Logan
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Alex Winter
as Bill S. Preston / Evil Bill / Granny Pre...
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Bill Sadler
as Grim Reaper
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Joss Ackland
as DeNomolos
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Pam Grier
as Ms. Wardroe
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George Carlin
as Rufus
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Amy Stock-Poynton
as Missy
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Jim Martin
as Sir James Martin
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Hal Landon Jr.
as Captain Logan
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Annette Azcuy
as Elizabeth
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Chelcie Ross
as Colonel Oats
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Robert Noble
as Bach
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Tim "Herb" Alexander
as Primus
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Tom Allard
as Big Station
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Roy Brocksmith
as Deputy James
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Ed Cambridge
as George Washington Carver
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David Carrera
as Ted Double
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Michael Chambers
as Good Robot Bill
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Les Claypool
as Primus
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John Ehrin
as Albert Einstein
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Bruno "Taco" Falcon
as Good Robot Ted
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Terry Finn
as Heavenly Greeter
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Don Forney
as Benjamin Franklin
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Ed Gale
as Station
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Arturo Gil
as Station
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Tad Horino
as Confucius
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Eleni Kelakos
as Ria Paschelle
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Larry Lalonde
as Primus
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Max Magenta
as Smoker
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J. Patrick McNamara
as Mr. Preston
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Jeff Miller
as Bill Double
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Tanya Newbould
as Kate Axelrod
- Dennis Ott
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Carol Rosenthal
as 4th Seance Member
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Brendan Ryan Barrett
as Young Ted
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Anthony Schmidt
as Dark Figure
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Valerie Spencer
as 2nd Seance Member
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William Thorne
as Young Bill
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Sarah Trigger
as Joanna
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Taj Mahal
as Gatekeeper
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Chris Matheson
as "Ugly" Seance Member
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William Shatner
as James T. Kirk
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Ed Solomon
as "Stupid" Seance Member
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Kathryn Miller
as 3rd Seance Member
- Karen Rea
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Dana Stevens
as 1st Seance Member
- Kenau Reeves
- William Sadler



