1. Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989)2. Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020)3. Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey (1991) Overall rating: ★★★☆☆ Previously on Film Franchise Fridays:
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Movie Review: Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020)
Movie #27 of 2025: Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020) A fun but muddled legacy sequel, picking up with the titular dudes several decades after their previous adventures. Overall I would say this movie is better than I expected it to be, and easily stronger than Bogus Journey (1991). It just could have benefited …
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Movie Review: Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey (1991)
Movie #26 of 2025: Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey (1991) One of the strangest genre pivots for a sequel that I’ve ever seen, swapping the time-travel shenanigans of the first movie for the afterlife experience of this installment’s title. Things here start out fine: the last film established that a utopian future was somehow built …
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Movie Review: Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989)
Movie #25 of 2025: Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989) A fun little story about two California slackers who travel around in a time machine that looks like a phone booth — surprisingly not intended as a Doctor Who reference — collecting famous historical figures to include in their class project. The boys are dim …
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