classictitle80s.gif

Home
80s Films
80s News
80s Games
80s Store
80s Links
Contact Us

Bill and Ted

Totally Excellent

Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989)

billandted.jpg
Box Art

Classic Film Rating: 7/10
 
Release Date: 13th April 1990 (17th February 1989 US)
 
Director: Peter Hewitt


Main Characters:
 
Ted Theodore Logan (Keenu Reeves)
Bill S Preston Esq (Alex Winter)
Rufus (George Carlin)
 
Plot:
 
Two excellent teenages must pass a vital History test, otherwise Ted will be sent to Alaskan Military School.  Luckery Rufus arrives from the future and lends them a time machine (a phone box), which they must use in order to pass their test!

Buy From Amazon UK

Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey (1991)

billandtedbogusjourney.jpg
Box Art

Classic Film Rating: 6/10
 
Release Date: 3rd January 1992 (19th July 1991 US)
 
Director: Peter Hewitt
 


Main Characters:
 
Ted Theodore Logan (Keenu Reeves)
Bill S Preston Esq (Alex Winter)
Rufus (George Carlin)
Chuck De Nomolos (Joss Ackland)
Grim Reaper (William Sadler)
 
Plot:
 
Chuck De Nomolos plans to stop Bill and Ted from playing at the fourth annual San Dimas battle of the bands.  He takes the time machine and sends two robot Bill and Ted look a likes to kill them.  In order to  save the babes and win the battle of the bands they must escape from hell by outwitting the Grim Reaper.

Buy From Amazon UK

Trivia
 
Historical Figures appearing in Excellent Adventure:
 
Napoleon Bonaparte (Terry Camilleri)
Socrates (Tony Steedman)
Billy the Kid (Dan Shor)
Sigmund Freud (Rod Loomis)
Beethoven (Clifford David)
Genghis Khan (Al Leong)
Joan of Arc (Jane Wiedlin)
Abraham Lincoln (Robert V Barron)
 
The orginal name for Bogus Journey was Bill and Ted Go To Hell

 
"I'm in love dude" Ted
 
"Oh you beautiful babes from England, for whom we have travelled through time.  Will you go with us to the prom in San Dimas? We will have a most triumphant time!" Ted
 
"EXCELLENT!" Bill and Ted
 
"Ted you and I have witnessed many things, but nothing as bodacious as what just happened" Bill
 
"I am the Earl of Preston" Bill
 
"I am the Duke of Ted" Ted

Awards

Excellent Adventure
 
Nominated for two Saturn Awards in 1991
 
Nominated for one International Fantasy Film Award in 1990
 
Bogus Journey
 
Won one Saturn Award for Best Suporting Actor (William Sadler) in 1992
 
Also nominated for  a Saturn Award for Best Special Effects in 1992

Your Reviews


Home | Films | News | Games | Store | Links | Contact Us

A Matty Boosh Production
All orginal content is © 2007 Classic 80s Films
Disclaimer