Corner of solitude

Last time we saw Bill and Ted, it was San Dimas, California, 1988, and they found out from time traveller Rufus that the music of The Wyld Stallyns (Bill and Ted’s Band) was the basis for peace throughout the cosmos and that by 2688 the universe exists in perfect harmony. Therefore, it was pivotal that Rufus helped the two pass their history oral examination or the band would falter and collapse. They passed, and Rufus presented the pair with new guitars and saved the two princesses from medieval England who became part of the band.

2691, San Dimas, California. Three years on, and the future might not be looking so great for Bill and Ted. Chuck De Nomolos, presumed dead, isn’t happy about his present being built upon the legacy of two fools and he wants to change all that. In the future, our Rufus is teaching the physics of acoustical reverberation at the Bill and Ted University with special guest speakers thanks to the time travelling phone booth.

De Nomolos interrupts the session in an entrance not unlike that of Star Wars’s Darth Vader and presents his secret weapons: Bill and Ted, robotic replicas. It’s the mission of these automatons to: totally kill Bill and Ted, take over their lives and totally destroy them and give the speech they were going to give at the Battle of the Bands, only differently.

Bill and Ted have reached the “second most crucial stage in their destiny lines”. They have moved into an apartment together and are about to propose to their girlfriends, the medieval English “Pincess Babes”, Joanna and Elizabeth who are celebrating their 521st birthdays. Life is good and they still can’t play their guitars, but then the doppelgangers arrive and lead our heroes (who are expecting ‘a most unprecedented expedition’) to the top of a cliff in the desert and push them off. Now their evil selves are wrecking their lives, and Bill and Ted can’t do anything about it because they’re dead. They must enlist the help of the Grim Reaper and the martian, Station the greatest scientist in the universe, in order not only to rescue the future of mankind but the love of their lives, the “Princess Babes”.