Beavis and Butt-Head Do America

1996 "Coming to a screen bigger than your TV."
6.8| 1h20m| PG-13| en| More Info
Released: 20 December 1996 Released
Producted By: Paramount
Country: United States of America
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Revenue: 0
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Slacker duo Beavis and Butt-Head wake to discover their TV has been stolen. Their search for a new one takes them on a clueless adventure across America, during which they manage to accidentally become America's most wanted.

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Eric Stevenson I 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. ***
MartinHafer 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.
John Doe I rented this because i wanted to see some of the Beavis and Butt-head cartoons but the TV series DVDs are censored and i have never seen a single episode of the TV series so i settled for this instead. Beavis and Butt-head wake up from a dream only to find that their TV is stolen. This leads them on a trip across the United States of America to find it.I find the humor funny but in a dumb and stupid way. Both Beavis and Butt-Head's brains are the size of a peanut (no, wait even smaller...how about a speck of sand? Yeah, that's it their brains are the size of a speck of sand lol). Anyway they get on a bus and meet an elderly lady there and keep thinking they are gonna 'score' with a gunman's wife (The gunman is voiced by Bruce Willis and his wife is voiced by Demi Moore.) Anyways this takes them across the desert where they meet their fathers (and they're more crude then Beavis and Butt-Head are), go to a church, and among other things and all of this there is a conspiracy about some remote which i didn't understand but oh well. Beavis and Butt-Head become heroes lol. If you like the series. you will like this.I give Beavis and Butt-Head Do America a 6/10
TheLittleSongbird I 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