Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure & Bogus Journey

Giving the time travel storyline a boost with an eighties twist, brought this pair of movies into the spotlight, and rocketed Keanu Reeves into the stratosphere. We also saw that George Carlin could play the straight man to our two heroes, which only shows how versatile he is as an actor. The idea that a future society could be totally based on the music of one group is so far fetched that as the movies move along you almost begin believing that it could happen. Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure - A guardian angel from the future help two buddies pass their final History exam by giving them a time machine to gather information. The cast of characters that the boys bring forward for their exam truly feel like they were plucked out of time for this experience. Subtle sight gags and verbal innuendo are rampant throughout the film and help with the childish nature of the characters. The storyline itself is very inventive, the idea that the two most brain dead students in high school could be the saviors of society just goes to show you can't judge a book by its cover.
Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey - A terrorist from the future plans on killing Bill and Ted and replacing them with robots, but Death isn't ready for the ultimate battle of wits with these two. The character of Death is by far one of the best additions to this film's cast, the battle of games that the three of them par take in was very ingenious. The sets and effects that were made and used for the Heaven and Hell sequences were very well done, you can almost believe that this is how it could be when the time comes. There are as many laughs in this film as the first but they just seem to be more forced than natural and that harms the film.
One of the best tag lines for a movie was used for the first film as a description of what it was about, "History is about to be rewritten by two guys who can't spell." And after they tear apart history they destroy the afterlife for good measure, this was about as far as you could have gone with this story but that is not what Hollywood is about. You must squeeze as much blood from a stone as possible, so a cartoon series was made, which altered the original premise of the story so that they could have a weekly show, and oh, what a bad series it was. So as a closing remark, watch these films, enjoy them for what they are, a fun trip around the universe, and be excellent to each other.