this movie be very underrated . it highly imaginative and creative and clever . it just plain fun and in my opinion this film top the first one . but the film be forget when it first come out and and become even more overlooked a the year pass . bill and ted bogus journey also bomb at the box office and whereas the first one be a pretty good hit and very popular . i think the problem may be that this film be just release a couple year too late . in 1991 and bill and ted already seem so 80 . even though the 80 be only a couple year ago back at that time and the landscape of the music and style for kid have change so radically with gangsta rap and hip hop and pearl jam and nirvana and grunge and the seattle sound . bill and ted with their ozzy osbourne and van halen and gun n rose music along with their 80 style seem so out of place and very outdated in 91 and and i think that one big reason the film bomb at the box office . nobody but surfer be still say stuff like excellent . and bogus . in 1991. gremlin 2 which also come out in the early 90 suffer a similar fate of be a good film that bomb at the box office because it be too associate with the 80 . the transition from the 80 to the 90 be a much fast change then now with the 90 and 00s . 1991 be nothing like 1988 or 1989 and whereas right now and 2002 and last year 2001 still look or look like 1995 or 1996. if only excellent adventure which be make in 1988 and be release that year instead of 1989 and and bogus journey be make quickly and release in 1989 and then it too would have probably be just a wildly receive a the first .