Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991)

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure was already a comedic romp rife with creativity. So how do you follow up a film whose climax featured Ghengis Kahn wreaking havoc in a sporting goods store and Sigmund Freud cock-blocking Billy the Kid and Socrates in a mall food court? How about having your heroes get killed by evil future robot doppelgängers then challenge the grim reaper so they can escape their own private Easter Bunny-filled hell and return to the land of the living with a pair of martians to build good robot versions of themselves from parts bought at Home Depot. You got to admit, that's some bold storytelling right there. That's the screenplay equivalent of a Salvador Dali painting. Think about The Seventh Seal scene where our protagonists play chess (and Clue, and Twister...) with Death himself. The sheer amount of balls that screenwriters Ed Solomon and Chris Matheson had! To write a script that references a film 98% of its target audience hasn't even heard of? That earns my respect...and a little air guitar.