There are two kinds of people in this world. Those who find Beavis & Butt-Head hilarious and those who find them unbearable. I'm in the former category and was pleasantly surprised by how funny I still found this film. I remember when it originally came out that Beavis & Butt-Head were pretty played out by this point and a feature length theatrical film filled with big names voicing characters (Bruce Willis, Demi Moore, Robert Stack, Cloris Leachman, Eric Bogosian, Richard Linklater, Greg Kinnear, David Spade, and David Letterman as a Roadie) seemed like overkill. I remember grudgingly liking the film, but rewatching after having not seen Beavis & Butt-Head in quite some time, the film felt pretty fresh and surprisingly prescient given the amount of pop culture youth take in today, along with the dumbing down society (also see Mike Judge's underrated satire "Idiocracy" for further explorations of these same themes). However, it may be that I'm now older and and am just cranky old man bemoaning "kids these days." Back in 1996, MTV was the main source of youth pop culture and Beavis & Butt-Head were a hilarious sent up of MTV's lowest common denominator fans. Today, youth consume pop culture instead through any number of social media apps and streaming apps/devices, rather than one channel and Tiger Beat magazine. The medium may have changed, but a satire of youth culture being dumbed down (to a ridiculously low level of by our two heroes) is still just as relevant today. I think it's this element of satire that many critics missed back when Beavis & Butt-Head originally aired. Beavis & Butt-Head were never presented as characters to to aspire to or intended to be seen as "cool." They were made by their creators to be held up for ridicule and to be mocked. Admittedly, many youth at the time missed the intended irony and instead enjoyed the TV series for all the wrong reasons, but that's not a reason to dismiss the characters outright. Now to this film in particular, the pair have their precious television stolen and they then set out to find a replacement, which has them mistaken for hitmen and puts them in the middle of government espionage and intrigue, of which they are completely oblivious. I found just about everything in the film hilarious and worthy of being considered satire. Everything in the film works as both as straight humor and also as social commentary. From the oblivious Tom Anderson (a likely cousin of King of the Hill's Hank Hill) to Mr. Van Driessen lovingly sung rendition of Lesbian Seagull over a montage of Beavis & Butt-Head obscenities committed across the country on their ill conceived cross country road trip to "score," to the pair meeting the Bubba US President of the 90s, Bill Clinton, is all quite funny and quite clever. Overall, if you can get past (or get into) the crass surface level humor, "Beavis & Butt-Head Do America" is heeeeee-larious.
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CuriosityKilledShawn14 May 2006I know a lot of you who have never seen Beavis and Butthead probably think very little of the show based on the low-brow nature of it (I was one of them), but if you give this movie a chance you'll see that it's actually as well written and at times as, dare I say, subtle as King of the Hill.
Beavis and Butthead have their TV stolen and when trying to get it back are mistaken for hit men by drunken drunk Muddy Grimes (Bruce Willis, as I was rather shocked to find out once the credits rolled), who sends them on a mission to 'do his wife' Dallas. Misinterpreting this as any horny teenagers would, B+B head to Las Vegas to carry out the terrible act. But we discover (they don't, however) that Dallas and Muddy are part of international weapons conspiracy and our two teen-aged heroes are being set-up to take the blame.
So, as they take off across the country, causing absolute mayhem wherever they go, the ATF closely follow, giving full body cavity searches to everyone and anyone they meet at the order of head honcho Agent Flemming (the late Robert Stack), who comes out with some brilliant, deadpan one-liners. The set-pieces are wonderful and the mushroom-induced dream sequence by Rob Zombie looks amazing.
Mike Judge's animation style also brilliant. Avoiding bright, primary colors used in shows such as The Simpsons, Family Guy and Futurama, he uses mainly softer colors, pencil-effect scenery and water-color backgrounds. It's a sort of calming, easy-going animation style that he's totally made his own.
You should totally check-out this movie. Don't be put off by what you may have heard or may think of Beavis and Butthead. You'll be conning yourself out of loads of laughs if you do.
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eduderocks18211 December 2015Beavis and Butthead is just hilarious. This movie is exactly what the show is like but longer. I couldn't stop laughing. Beavis and Butthead love to entertain us (ha ha anus). I just couldn't stop laughing at cornholio no matter how many times I heard it. It just never gets old. The bit where they walk in on the principal getting spanked is hilarious and the plane scene. If you are a fan of Beavis and Butthead and you haven't seen this movie you should go watch it. Trust me you won't be disappointed. To be honest I wasn't even expecting much and I loved it. Mr anderson was good in this movie as well and so was the main fbi agent. I also liked the character Muddy voiced by Bruce willis.
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lesleyharris3017 April 2015Beavis & Butt-Head Do America is a good movie with a pretty well written storyline and a terrific voice cast. It's nothing outstanding, but it's simply a fun and enjoyable ninety minutes of animated adult comedy. I'm not a huge fan of the Beavis & Butt-Head television series, I like it but don't love it and that's the same way I felt about this, I don't have any care or sympathy for these characters, but seeing them behave like huge idiots in this movie, which is basically just a long episode of the series, was certainly a good time. Die hard fans of the television series will certainly love it, as for people who have never seen a single episode, it is still worth the watch if you ever see it on television and have some time to kill.
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Movie-Misfit9 September 2014Beavis and Butthead have always been tricky to love. The humour in their shows is often slow, and obviously childish. But with this great feature film, we get plot and constant laughs as they make their way across Amurhka casing trouble and destroying everything in their path!
Of course, they don't know any better, and with the FBI hot on their heels we are thrown into a full length chuckle that never tires.
I remember seeing it on the big screen upon release, and now, to see it again on DVD almost 20 years later (oh dear god), is quite enjoyable!
Check it out and switch the brain off.
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Hey_Sweden19 April 2013Animated MTV characters Beavis and Butt-Head made their feature film debut with this very funny movie that actually does a good job of sustaining itself for 81 minutes, with a pretty good story and plenty of the kind of humour that us B & B fans love so much. It's gleefully lowbrow stuff, and that's just the way we like it.
Our favourite antisocial horn dog teenagers wake to discover that the most important item in their lives, their TV set, has been stolen, and their search leads them to a shady character named Muddy (voiced by Bruce Willis). Muddy offers them $10,000 to do his wife Dallas (voice of Demi Moore), and B & B readily accept after misinterpreting the word "do". They become embroiled in an elaborate plot to steal a powerful biological weapon, all while following the quintessential B & B agenda: trying to score!
B & B's assorted adventures include making life miserable for cranky old neighbor Tom Anderson, causing havoc at places such as the Hoover Dam, the appearance of the legendary Cornholio (who, of course, just needs TP for his bunghole), encountering two very familiar looking former Motley Crue roadies, hallucinating in the desert, and having some eventful plane and bus rides. (It's just so priceless that B & B, upon seeing that they'll be on a bus full of nuns, can't see past the fact that their fellow passengers are chicks.) The colourful cast of characters also includes Agent Flemming (in an inspired bit of casting, Robert Stack voices this part), an ATF agent obsessed with cavity searches. Cloris Leachman plays the aged "slut" on the plane & bus, and Eric Bogosian, Richard Linklater, and David Letterman (billing himself as Earl Hofert) round out the various pop culture figures supplying voices.
And everything is set to a kick ass soundtrack that begins with a "Shaft" style number co-written by Isaac Hayes and B & B creator Mike Judge. Other artists heard include the Red Hot Chili Peppers, White Zombie (Rob Zombie also supplies the artwork for the hallucination sequence), AC/DC, Rancid, LL Cool J, Ozzy Osbourne, and Butthole Surfers.
If you're a fan of the TV series, you're sure to enjoy "Beavis & Butt-Head Do America". It's extremely agreeable from start to finish, and doesn't overstay its welcome. It delivers more laughs than a lot of live-action comedies.
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garydiamond6 November 2008"Beavis and Butthead Do America" is filled with vulgar humour, sadistic or otherwise bizarre characters and a convoluted plot insane enough to make no sense. These are some of the movie's finer qualities. If you didn't like the main duo to begin with then this will do nothing to convince you otherwise. But why should it?
Mike Judge has managed to fill out the 75 or so minutes well without making it drag, and he's done it with style. Since he cannot change the simplistic, constantly sniggering leads he has done the most logical thing he could by surrounding them with a plethora of multi-faceted characters tied together with a conspiracy plot that takes them into other locations where their simple-but-effective double-entendre humour can flourish. Previous characters make a return and are given some development where relevant to the plot.
It all starts inauspiciously enough - the hard rock obsessed teenagers awake one day, still on their couch, to find their beloved television is missing. Not smart enough to put the pieces of the puzzle together to catch the thieves in the act, they try and steal one from their school. Wandering around town ever more desperate, they somehow manage to usurp the television thieves, but not in the way you might expect. This lands them right in the thick of it, and the unassuming pair make their way through. Hilarity ensues on a regular basis.
In my opinion as a would-be critic, we need more films like these. Certainly there are plenty of gross-out movies, some of them also animated (as a side note the animation here is a nice balance between the original show and something more polished) but there are few that can take simple toilet humour and dress it up so well, making it more than just a guilty pleasure to enjoy after a few beers and/or a joint. This is right up there with the finer moments of South Park for such an achievement, and can easily be considered Beavis and Butt-Head's crowning moment of funny and/or awesome.
Overall this is a fun, feelgood comedy which doesn't require all your brainpower to enjoy to the fullest, though an extra watch or two might throw up a few sight gags or subplot references that you missed the first time around for whatever reason(!) The plot seems somehow relevant too, considering that it also deals with an issue that has been a headline grabber in post-9/11 society. But not without a couple of sniggers along the way, of course.
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Quinoa198419 March 2000Beavis and Butthead Do America is as funny (if not funnier) than the television show. It looks at the two morons like never before (with intelligence). The plot involves the duo on a cross-country odyssey to "score". Along the way, we overhear the voices of Robert Stack, Cloris Leachman, Eric Bogosian, Demi Moore, Bruce Willis, Greg Kinnear and David Letterman. And of course, Mike Judge (who directed, co-wrote and voiced 5 characters) who created this (God help me for saying) satirical masterpiece brings this film to a fine edge that isn't lost years later. For it's fans it's entertaining, in spots hysterically funny, and even cool to an extent; it's a film that, in a way, should get more credit than it got, but as a film on a level of 'cult' status it ranks in the background of other comedy peaks from the X-ers of the 90s. Where else will you get Dave Letterman playing former Motley Crue roadies turned drifters?
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tfrizzell6 July 2002The controversial but highly popular MTV animated series hits the big screen in this surprisingly entertaining and humorous film from the crazed mind of Mike Judge. The two dim-witted teenage friends have their television stolen and set out to find it. However it seems that a chemical weapon of mass destruction has fallen into the pair's hands. Now national security is a major issue as the two go on a long journey to some of the country's most famous locales. The authorities always seem to be two steps behind in this film that has a comedic life of its own. Interesting voice characterizations by Judge, Bruce Willis, Demi Moore, Cloris Leachman and the golden-voiced Robert Stack all match their animated alter-egos perfectly. 3.5 out of 5 stars.
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The_Movie_Cat7 August 2000I enjoyed this film a lot more than I expected to. I was never very taken with Beavis and Butthead's short sketches on MTV, and in truth they've never really taken off in England the same way they did in the States. The somewhat obvious satire lacks the gentle wit of Mike Judge's other creation, "King of the Hill", and spending 80 minutes in their company was a dubious prospect.
However, ...Do America sensibly opens out the scope, taking in less broad targets. For a start, we have Beavis and Butthead's hippie teacher, who gently strums his spiritual song, "Lesbian Seagull". It's a testament to the profile of the cartoon that Englebert Humperdinck gives his own rendition of this for the end titles. But best of all is their neighbour, redneck Tom Anderson (Catchphrase: "I'd love to get my hands on those two b******s for whacking off in my camper van"), who, while not the same character, has the exact same voice, personality and appearance of Hank from "Hill". Judge obviously knew when he was on to a good thing and built a series around this great character.
The plot is brilliantly silly, with the two boys getting involved, unwittingly, in a plot that sees a killer virus, attempted murder and the emergence of World War III. President Clinton even makes an appearance towards the end. Movie culture is openly lambasted, starting with King Kong, and taking in an opening title sequence (theme song by Isaac Hayes, a year before South Park) that parodies both Shaft and Charlie's Angels. Look out too for the climatic "slow motion" sequence.
Jokes are puerile, such as the two obnoxious leads laughing uncontrollably at the word "wood", or another scene where a man asks the pair "have you got a match?" "Yeah," replies Butthead, the slightly smarter of the two, "my butt and ... uh ... your butt". It's childish, but it made me laugh. Not the most subtle exercise in wit, the film is still a worthwhile, and, by it's own small ambitions, successful picture. -
Coxer9915 March 1999Duped by a sexy arms dealer (who just happens to be voiced by Demi Moore) into smuggling a chemical weapon across the U.S., the dopey duo wreak havoc and hell while trying to lose their virginity as they visit Las Vegas, the Hoover Dam and the White House. The laughs similar to the television series. Entertaining if you enjoy these two. I admit I still have a place in my heart for these two, even if they are retarded in the highest form.
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JoeytheBrit2 November 2005This film spin-off from the MTV show featuring the archetypal juvenile slackers with an all-consuming passion for TV, rude words ("huh, huh-huh, you said anus,") and scoring with chicks (at which they are singularly unsuccessful) is pretty good considering the low level of the humour. The moronic duo wander through life completely unaware of both their innate doofishness and the trail of chaos they leave in their wake as they are mistakenly hired by a drunken low-life (voiced by Bruce Willis) to 'do' his sexy wife (Demi Moore) who has absconded with the macguffin they stole together. The genesis of Hank Hill from B&B creator Mike Judge's other show, King of the Hill, can be seen here in the character of Tom Anderson, a tourist who runs across Beavis and Butthead throughout the film. Anderson is older, but he bears a strong resemblance to Hill, and his voice is identical. There's a neat riff on monster movies at the start of the film, and a great satire of 70s cop shows during the credits, and while the jokes are mostly juvenile and silly, they're consistently amusing, which makes this film surprisingly funny and enjoyable.
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Favorite Movie Quote: "Why does everyone want to look at my schlong?"
(Huh-huh-huh)
Is this movie dumb? - Yes.
Is this movie funny? - Yes. Most definitely!
I mean, according to Bungholio, even someone like Engelbert Humperdinck (huh-huh-huh) would enjoy the moronic level of humor that's readily found in this flick. But, then again, seeing really is believing.
For those who don't already know this, Beavis and Butthead are the unabashedly ignorant, flagrantly antisocial, hormonally charged, adolescent duo (who never understand any situation) from MTV's once-popular television series of the same name.
In this crudely drawn and outrageously funny "Comedy" from 1996, Beavis and Butthead (a pair of real idiot-losers) find themselves on a cross-country odyssey that begins right at home when someone steals their beloved, all-important TV set.
Alternately stupid, gross, and, genuinely hilarious (guaranteed), Beavis & Butthead Do America is a modest cartoon feature that is certainly true to nobody, but itself. And, yes, it's most certain to please even more than just hardcore fans of the now-defunct TV show.
Directed by Mike Judge (creator and voice of the title characters), this film features the voice-talents of such Hollywood stars as Demi Moore, Eric Bogosian, David Letterman, and, best of all, Robert Stack, as the hard-nosed Federal Agent, Flemming.
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Somehow, the MTV folks and Paramount Pictures were impressed enough by the "Beavis and Butt-Head" TV show to green light a movie version...a crazy gamble that paid off big-time as the movie turned out to be a hit and made them many times their investment. Why did the film work? Well, part of it is because the movie got rid of the most annoying thing about the TV show...the music videos. So, in the film you got nothing but Beavis and Butt-Head...and all their insanely stupid antics. Another reason, and this is a real shocker, Siskel & Ebert liked this one...a lot...and folks took their thumbs up to heart!
When the picture begins, thieves make off with the boys' television set...and they are naturally unable to function without it as watching TV is almost all they do. But through their efforts to find a television set, they wander into a murder for hire plot, destroy Hoover Dam and plunge Vegas into chaos, smuggle a killer virus from the US government, get on the FBI's most-wanted list and generally make a mess of everything while they laugh like idiots (because they are) at all sorts of childish double entendres. On their tails throughout is a crazed Federal Agent with a strong penchant for cavity searches.
Sophisticated entertainment, this certainly is not. The film is very crude, often stupid and the animation is of only passable quality. But, it also is funny IF you are the sort of person who laughs at these guys and their idiotic antics. Others should steer clear and avoid the film at all costs!! As for me, I did (despite myself) enjoy it...and liked watching my wife roll her eyes and complain throughout about the dubious quality of the movie. -
SnoopyStyle1 November 2014MTV slacker icons Beavis and Butt-Head find their TV stolen. This sets them off on an epic quest to get a TV. They stumble onto a murder for hire. They are told to do her but she turns out to be an arms smuggler with a deadly virus. She sends them on a bus trip to DC with the virus sewn into Butt-Head's shorts.
Mike Judge has created two lovable idiot slackers. They stay lovable throughout and that's why this movie works so well. These are slobbering sex-obsessed idiot teens. Of course, some people can try to take it too seriously and complain about its low-brow vulgarity. They would right that this is vulgar but it doesn't make it lowest common denominator. This is well written by smart people and not just a series of bad jokes. This is a fun movie with some pretty big laughs. -
TheLittleSongbird28 March 2011I don't think Beavis and Butt Head Do America is quite as good as the wonderful TV show, but as far as a film based on a TV show goes, it is a worthy one and one of the better ones I've seen. It is a little too short and there are one or two scenes in the middle that could have done with a tighter pace.
The animation is not quite as good as it is in the show, but it is still good and tries hard to stick to its style. The score is infectious and there is also a killer soundtrack. The characters are fun and likable and the story is funny, clever and well structured.
The voices are also great, not just from the leads but also the celebrity voices. But the humour is what drives it, crude, vulgar and yes quite risqué it is quite hilarious and sharp.
All in all, a worthy film even if the TV show is better. 8/10 Bethany Cox -
george.schmidt27 February 2003BEAVIS AND BUTT-HEAD DO AMERICA (1996) ***1/2 Voices: Mike Judge, Bruce Willis, Demi Moore, Robert Stack, Greg Kinnear, Cloris Leachman, Eric Bogosian, Richard Linklater, Earl Hofert. Hysterically funny big screen debut of MTV's animated juvenile delinquents who find themselves embroiled in a cross-country dastardly plot involving a biochemical virus, cavity searches, the pursuit of losing their virginity and - oh yeah - the theft of their beloved television. Scatological humor and double entendres by the score (huh, huh ... you said score!) with the dim bulb duo at heir manic mischievous best. Irreverently brilliant and altogether a defiant against the establishment flick. Note: yes that is David Letterman's voice (aka Earl Hofert) as Butt-head's long-lost father; check out the gap in the teeth! Cool!!
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I didn't expect much from "Beavis and Butt-Head Do America," not least of all because what little I had seen of the television show totally failed to capture my interest and the title of the movie was a not-so-subtle sexual reference. (There is also a special from 1995 named "Beavis and Butt-Head Do Christmas." Har-har.) However, I was pleasantly surprised by the fact that the film is quite entertaining. It's very short so there's not much to complain about in terms of length - it flies by quite quickly. The plot is amusing and there are lots of celebrity cameos - David Letterman, Bruce Willis, Demi Moore, and so on and so forth.
The movie is very unassuming and is just plain entertaining. It's not the sort of film that is easy to hate, it's just very basic and amusing.
Mike Judge since went on to greener pastures with the cult success of "Office Space" on video and seemed to abandon the concept of a "Beavis" sequel around 1999 (there was one planned for a while). However recently I read that he's planning a comeback for the intellectually-devoid duo and I for one actually wouldn't be too hesitant about seeing another if it's done this well. -
ericstevenson7 March 2018I remember reading Roger Ebert's review of this review and how profound it was. He remarked that it's mistakenly thought that "Beavis And Butt-Head" is a show that takes pride in the stupidity of its main characters and this wasn't the message. He said, "I believe Mike Judge would rather die than share a taxi ride to the airport with his characters...". These are guys you're supposed to laugh at, not with. They are manifestations of creator Mike Judge's anger at ignorant people. They're not relatable at all, although I guess they're not technically bad people.
I've seen some episodes of the newer show and this was quite faithful to it. The animation does seem to be the same as the TV show. What matters is that this movie has a lot of great lines and jokes and that's what it's made for. I was kind of getting a Blues Brothers vibe from this as it features two guys causing all this trouble around the country, including a car pile-up. I didn't root for them like I did the Blues Brothers, oh no. That would again, be missing the point. *** -
I grew up being told that most adult oriented cartoons were not any good. That they were stupid, offending, and damaging to one's mind. At least that is what one of my high school teachers told my class when we brought up the subject of the Simpsons. Now I'm not saying I learned anything from watching the 2 hour movie Beavis and Butthead Do America but I am saying that I haven't laughed so hard in a while and that is the sole reason I watched it, to laugh.
Beavis and Butthead, our two friendly dimwitted high school students who are always trying to 'score with chicks', are now in a movie. The story revolves around when Beavis and Butthead get their TV stolen and attempt to find where it is. Soon they are hired by a drunken Muddy Grimes to go to Las Vegas and kill his wife. Not knowing any better they set off for Las Vegas and soon find themselves traveling all over America with a sexual innuendo in their minds at all times.
There is a ton of comedy in the film. Most jokes from the original Beavis and Butthead series came from sexual references and jokes and while the film has plenty of these this is not where all the comedy comes from. A lot of smart humor is also present which I did not notice as a young teen when I first saw this. There is also a lot of play on words and confusion between characters which makes some great comedy (especially the scene on the airplane with Beavis talking to the old lady).
Mike Judge is a master of crude humor. Voicing several characters in the film he brings a ton of laughs both as Beavis and Butthead. A surprising all star cast was assembled for the film. Bruce Willis, Demi Moore, Robert Stack, David Letterman and Cloris Leachman all contribute their voices to the film. Part of the laughter for me came from just hearing Robert Stack voice the stern ATF Agent Flemming and his constant use of cavity searches to obtain knowledge from suspects. The characters and the actors providing the voices are all great and really funny.
The animation is well done and Mike Judge takes us all over America. Another part of what I liked about the film is taking the audience virtually everywhere in America. The original cartoon always involved Beavis and Butthead staying in their hometown but in the movie they get to travel. Judge could have easily had them stay in their old town but instead he tried something new and it works well. The bus ride sequence with the duo seeing road signs is my favorite scene of the film but too hard to explain in a review.
All together though I enjoyed Beavis and Butthead Do America. It's simple and easy to watch. The comedy doesn't slow down at all the whole way through and none of the characters are dry. I wouldn't necessarily allow a child to watch the movie. There are a lot of sexual references in the film along with some language. Unless you want your kids asking you a lot of interesting questions, I wouldn't allow anyone under the age of 12 to watch this. 12 and up feel free to watch it, you'll understand it and laugh the whole way through.
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Budd-511 September 1999I never liked Beavis and Butt-head the TV series but I enjoyed this movie. It takes getting used to though. At times I felt like throwing the TV out if Butt-head laughed once more or said score. They can be so irritating but it's their stupidity that makes it funny.
The entire joke of the movie is that Beavis and Butt-head are travelling across America thinking they'll score with Demi Moore all while being tracked by the FBI because they're inadvertently carrying a secret weapon. Along the way Beavis and Butt-head make unscheduled and accidental stops which confuse the FBI leading them to believe the duo are geniuses. This is highly original stuff.
But it's not the storyline it's the characters that are funny. The old lady, the man who owns the camper (who looks remarkably like Hank Hill) and top performances to Robert Stack as the FBI agent. "Give them a cavity search" becomes his trademark line.
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Beavis and Butthead was one of the many points in my childhood where I knew, I was unlike anybody else. I was entertained beyond belief by these two dimwits who knew nothing in the world outside of their couch and their television. Seeing this movie young, most likely around ten, I honestly didn't like it. I found it to be "boring" and I hated how Beavis and Butthead left the town of Highland and ventured out into the big world.
I watched it a year later and went on to like it. This is my third viewing. Now I can fully appreciate it. I understood all the jokes, but at the same time I wished the film took place in the town of Highland, I realize that the creators and the director, respectively, had to create a plot that was very large and made to fit an eighty-five minute run time. Not the usual five to ten minute run time the MTV program was used to.
At the time, this movie was the near conclusion to the MTV program that ran for five years. There was rumored to be a sequel for years, and remained in development, but never happened. Fine by me. We got something better. It took fifteen years, but in 2011 it's said that the show will return to MTV with brand new episodes poking fun at music videos and viral videos. I'm skeptical, yet my excitement is through the roof.
Beavis and Butthead Do America is about the two adolescents that go in search of their missing television set. Wandering into a motel, they become mistaken by a drunk named Muddy (Willis) as the men he hired to kill his wife. Saying he hired them to "do his wife," the boys believe they are being payed to have sex with Muddy's wife. The boys don't object, but then become labeled the most dangerous men in America by the FBI who are in search of a mysterious chip they call "the unit." The humor isn't as racy as people would expect. It maintains a PG-13 rating, and uses it neutrally. That comes off as one of its flaws, sadly. Like the South Park movie that boasted an R rating with very foul language and sex references, clearly showed what could be on the big screen differs greatly from Comedy Central. With Beavis and Butthead Do America, it does the same thing it would've done if it were a TV movie. Even The Simpson's Movie went a little further than its FOX limits.
Still, it's worth it for the pleasure of seeing one of the greatest animated duos on the big screen doing what they do best, nothing. The best thing about the teens is they get in trouble, without even trying to get in trouble. They are a victim of bad timing, but somehow avoid every possible consequence. The FBI agent orders roadblocks, they are in the middle of the desert. They order the Dream America bus to stop, they get on a Nun's bus.
My favorite scene is when their "peace'd out" teacher tries to tell them from the bottom of his heart that having no Television actually opens a window of opportunity. He claims people need to realize that we don't need TV to entertain us. After that very near and dear moment, all they pick up is "entert(ain us)." Beavis and Butthead Do America has gotten better with repeated viewings, but is seems it never was "boring." I think being young and dumb, the film didn't sit right with me for the reasons I stated above. After the third time, it was pretty cool.
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ericjg62316 September 2003TV's Dumbnamic Duo make the jump to the Big Screen as they travel the country in their endless (and fruitless) efforts to 'score'. Spurred on by an offer from a drunken tough guy to "do" his wife for $10,000, they head to Vegas, then are sent back across the country when they run into her and she offers them even more money to take care of some business back in Washington, DC. This, in essence, is the plot, not that it matters much, since the point is simply an excuse to have the boys travel across the country via plane, bus and car (trunk) doing outrageous gags, wreaking havoc, and, in general, acting like the complete idiots they are.
Anyone who's watched the TV show knows the basic concept here, and the movie sticks to it faithfully. Beavis and Butthead are the ultimate caricatures of the MTV generation, a pair of oversexed, undereducated underachieving losers with absolutely zero redeeming qualities. It's not much of a stretch to call this movie a cartoon version of "Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas" inasmuch as it's about two utter buffoons who wreck everything in sight and make utter asses of themselves, all for the audience's amusement. It even includes a scene in which Beavis starts hallucinating after eating some Psychedelic plants, at first he freaks out, then he starts grinning when he realizes it's just like watching a rock video. This last was actually pretty gutsy, given Hollywood's fears of being perceived as glamorizing drug use, and especially so since it involved a high school kid.
In the end, this is really just an extended version of the hit TV show. With the exception of the drug scene, the creators didn't push the envelope the way the "South Park" movie did, at least in terms of swearing. The only part that true fans will miss is that, since the whole movie is kicked off when the boys realize their precious TV has been stolen, we never get to see them doing their trademark ripping on bad rock videos. Aside from that, all the rest of the stuff we loved from the show is there, the irreverence, the crudity, and best of all, the stupidity that is so stupid it often rises`to the level of genius!
7/10 -
This is one of the crappiest movies I've ever seen(although not completed). This "movie" is so crappy and so not-funny it was a pain to watch the hour I endured. I mean, come on... This is just completely boring, and immature, but not immature in a good way. I love cartoons like South Park, The Critic and The Simpsons, but this... the horror of this movie is unspeakable!
Fart jokes can to a certain extent be funny, like in South Park and Family Guy, this piece of sh*t doesn't even seem to try. They can just sit there, fart and laugh that extremely annoying laugh, I should commit myself for therapy trying to cope with the terrors of this horrible, horrible "film"!
Personally I think 1/10 stars is more than this "movie" deserves.