1991 · adventure · comedy · sci-fi
Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey
Directed by Peter Hewitt1h 33m1991
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.
Our read: Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive adventure · comedy · sci-fi entry — gentle in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, breathless, gentle adventure / comedy, inventive in texture. Redemptive, epic, measured.
- warm
- kinetic
- gentle
- inventive
- epic-stakes
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