4. Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure
Though I've never quite understood the appeal of these two rapscallions, this film is mildly entertaining and relatively inoffensive. It was also very delayed, which begs the question - was it worth bothering at all? While principal photography was completed in 1987, the film's initial financiers went bankrupt not long after. In a similar way to Cabin in the Woods twenty years later, a sympathetic production company called Nelson Entertainment saved the film in 1988. Whether they did the world a favour or not is up for debate. Still, for better or for worse, the film was finally released in 1989. The movie sees rambunctious high school slackers Bill and Ted embark on a time-travelling journey that allows them to meet historical figures and eventually to pass their history paper. What japes! There's lots of amusing American 80s slang and annoying music references to god-awful 80s bands with too much hair. Luckily, the box office return was rather impressive, suggesting there may have been some point in pushing this film through the delays after all.