Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

Crappy film

It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves return as Bill S. Preston and Ted "Theodore" Logan. The plot for this sequel to the surprisingly good original film borrows from James Cameron's "The Terminator," with an evil overlord from the future, Joss Ackland, sending robot duplicates of Bill & Ted into the past to kill them before their band "Wyld Stallyns" becomes famous, which somehow changes the course of history against the evil tyrant. The main problem with this sequel is that it's not all that funny. You get the feeling that filmmakers decided to embrace the notion that bigger is better in an effort to conceal the fact that there really wasn't much of a story to tell here. However, the film is unpretentious and does manage to be likable despite it's vapidness. George Carlin returns as Rufus, William Sadler plays a very un-Ingmar Bergman version of Death, Pam Grier has a small role, and the excellent band Primus even appears in a concert scene.

This sequel to 'Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure' sees the duo in even more trouble; the evil Chuck De Nomolos hates the way the future turns out so decides to change it by sending Bill and Ted's evil robotic doppelgangers back in time to kill the real Bill and Ted then replace them before they can give their history-changing performance at the 'Battle of the Bands'. These two robots manage to kidnap Bill and Ted and throw them off Vasquez Rocks. Bill and Ted's ghosts are then met by Death; they escape from him but soon find themselves exorcised to Hell! Here they eventually meet death again and except his challenge… if they beat him he will help them return to their lives but if they lose they will be stuck in Hell. Inevitably they win and after a detour to heaven where they enlist the help of an unusual scientist they eventually confront the evil robots and De Nomolos at the 'Battle of the Bands'.The original 'Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure' was a lot of fun so it is no surprise that this sequel was made… and while I don't think it is as good as the first it is still a lot of fun. On the plus side this has an entirely new story and that story was pretty creative. Death was particularly funny; I liked how he kept refusing to admit that he was beaten as Bill and Ted defeated him in a series of games. Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves return as Bill and Ted, as well as their evil doubles, and are as good as ever and Joss Ackland was suitably villainous as De Nomolos, William Sadler is also rather fun as Death. There are plenty of good comic scenes along the way as well as a somewhat creepy version of Hell. Overall I'd recommend this to anybody who liked the original; however if you didn't like the first film I doubt you'd like this one.

In the idyllic future created by the influence of the Wyld Stallyns, Chuck De Nomolos (Joss Ackland), has become angry with the society and system, so he decides to change things in such a way that his ideas would form the basis for a new future. De Nomolos and his followers seize control of Rufus' (George Carlin) classroom and the phone booth time machine. De Nomolos reveals that he's constructed android duplicates, Evil Bill and Ted, which will go back to the 1990's, kill the real Good Bill and Ted, wreck their lives and reshape history in De Nomolos' image. In 1991 San Dimas, Bill S. Preston, Esq. (Alex Winter) and "Ted" Theodore Logan (Keanu Reeves), aka Good Bill and Ted, seemingly have everything going for them after they miraculously secure a place in the local Battle of the Bands Contest. The Princess of the first-Joanna and Elizabeth-also become engaged to the righteous duo. Not long after though, Evil Bill and Ted show up, proceeding to ruin Good Bill and Ted's arrive to ruin the lives and history of the Wyld Stallyns. Good Bill and Ted are murdered by the robots and must find a way back to world to the world living accompanied on their journey through the afterlife (the Bogus Journey of the title) by Death (William Sadler). The Grim Reaper is a parody of Death from the 1957 film The Seventh Seal.Fact: The working title for this film was Bill and Ted go to Hell and thrash metal band Megadeth have a song on the soundtrack called "Go to Hell." The soundtrack also features music from Slaughter, Faith No More and KISS, who perform the credit track "God Gave Rock and Roll to You." It's a pretty entertaining film and a rare case of a sequel bettering the original. Some the jokes are childish along with the slang, California dude accents and musical anecdotes can be tiresome, especially when Bill and Ted quote "Every Rose has it's Thorn" by Poison at the Gates of Heaven. Some parts it haven't aged well either since the future glimpsed at the beginning looks like an encapsulated picture of over-the-top late 1980's/early 1990's fashion inspired music videos. It would cool though to have a class that could allow a person to learn musical theory and history from great composers and rock stars in person through the use of a time machine. The afterlife in particular, though,looks pretty strange in a good way, the bluish gray haze of the spirit plane, and Hell did look scary, at least it did to a 10-year-old when I first saw this movie.

As I was watching the first Bill&Ted I was thinking that it represents the end of an era, the 80's, where studios would risk on a fun movie that didn't take itself at all seriously. The sequel, unfortunately, is "bogus". They push it all too far, they remove from the fun of the first and they push the movie all over the place: evil despots, robots, Death, The Devil and God. If in the first movie the pleasure was to watch the hapless Bill & Ted, in this film William Sadler steals the spot.Bottom line: while still a little funny, it was a lot more boring than the first film. Studios didn't do it for fun this time, they just wanted to cash on the success of the Excellent Adventures. In view of 2015 rumors about a third part to be released, I wonder if the... franchise, I guess we must call it, will regain its irreverent fun side or be yet another reboot of a sequel that is a prequel of a previous reboot, as is the custom nowadays.