In this sequel to Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989), lovable slackers Bill and Ted find themselves on a journey to hell, heaven and earth.
While watchable and certainly inventive, see: Bill and Ted playing board games in hell with the Grim Reaper (a film stealing, William Sadler), this sadly isn't a patch on the beloved original.
The storyline is slight and the (at the time groundbreaking) special effects are showing their age.
Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter (in dual roles, also playing bad robot Bill and Ted) give it their all, they nail the surfer, slacker, stoner vibe again, with some funny dialogue ("best three out of five?" Grim Reaper: "Damn right!"), but the material overall just isn't as good.
George Carlin returns briefly as Rufus, Amy Stock-Poynton is Missy (formerly Bill's stepmother, now Ted's) and the princesses / babes are back too (Annette Azcuy and Sarah Trigger.) Not quite bogus but far from excellent.
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DIRECTED BY: Pete Hewitt. SCREENPLAY BY: Chris Matheson, Ed Solomon. RUNNING TIME: 93 minutes. CERTIFICATE: PG. USA.
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