Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991) is, of course, the sequel to Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure. In many ways I feel it is far superior to the original film, but it's also more bizarre.Apparently people wear ridiculous fluorescent outfits in the future. This isn't exactly consistent with the prequel, where people wore tinfoil. I guess I shouldn't be looking for consistency in a funny, far-fetched movie like this one, but I notice these things.
Rufus' old gym teacher has a plan to prevent the music of Wyld Stallyns from having the societal impact that it would ultimately have, and sends two evil robots that look exactly like Bill & Ted.
Bill & Ted - the heroes of the movie - are killed by their robotic counterparts within the first 30 minutes of the opening credits, which is also unusual.
And then we have our brave heroes dropping into a deep abyss (a hilarious and classic moment), all the way down to hell. While they're down there, they each experience their personal hell, with somewhat disturbing results.
The heroes opt to challenge the grim reaper to a battle. If they win, they will be brought back to life. This is also a really entertaining sequence, because the reaper keeps losing and challenges them to more games (like Battleship and Twister).
Of course, Bill & Ted win the battle against the reaper and are brought to heaven in order to find the world's smartest scientist in the form of two alien creatures called Station. They thus return to Earth, and have Station construct "good robot usses".
The Wyld Stallyns are scheduled to play at the fated battle of the bands, which presents an impossibly good deal for winning. The "evil robot usses" are there, filling in, carrying out their evil plan, when our heroes burst in with their good robot counterparts, and destroy the evil robots.
But it's not over yet. Rufus' old gym teacher (Chuck De Nomolos) bursts in and attempts to gun them down. His plan is foiled, as Bill & Ted use their time-travelling faculty to stage his downfall. They realize that they still aren't good enough to put on a show, so they go on an intense guitar training session, again using their time-travelling facility to their advantage.
And that's pretty much it. They play, the credits roll, and we see a magazine and newspaper montage that indicates how successful they would become.
Although technically Bogus Journey isn't an 80s movie, it's a sequel to an 80s movie, so I thought it would be worth reviewing (especially since I already reviewed the prequel).
Station!
