Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (1996)

I've never seen this show before and I know it's suppose to be stupid. But that was the most stupidest thing I've ever seen.

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.

I remember going to see 'Beavis and Butthead Do America' when it came out in the cinema back in 1996. I was nineteen and had never bothered to watch the cartoon it was based on. My expectations were low, but I found the whole film hilarious and couldn't believe how I'd never watched the TV show before.Now, as the decades have passed, I occasionally slip the DVD back into the machine, namely to try and recapture whatever I originally saw in it. I've watched it about three times since the cinema. Each time I can barely raise a smile. In the TV series, the two titular characters spend much of their time on their sofa, watching the television. Therefore, in order to give the film a little more scope, they're set is quickly stolen, giving them an excuse to leave the confines of their house and go on a road trip across America. Naturally, it isn't just as easy as buying a new telly. They also get caught up in a plot to assassinate someone and inadvertently transport a weapon of mass destruction across the country.However, despite all the many different directions the film now goes in, I still don't find it as funny as the first time I watched it. The ATF agent charged with the task of hunting the two 'fugitives' down it still quite funny. He has a 'catchphrase' still gets an audible chuckle out of me every time he uses it (if you haven't already seen it, I won't spoil it for you). But, he's about the high-point of the film – in my now adult opinion. And, seeing as he's only a peripheral character, I find I'm not getting as many laughs out of the central characters as I am a secondary one.Maybe this film appeals to younger people. Maybe I've outgrown its deliberately 'low-brow' humour. Maybe it's a sign I should never watch anything that 'kids today' enjoy? I guess that Beavis and Butthead Do America spells the end of my illusion that I'm still part of that demographic. I'll still probably watch it again in a couple of years just in case my opinion has changed back again.http://thewrongtreemoviereviews.blogspot.co.uk/

I became a Beavis and Butt-head fanatic since it came on MTV, when this movie came out to theaters in 1996, I was thrilled and this movie made me laugh throughout the entire film!!! I was laughing like crazy.The films stars as a voice cast: Mike Judge (Beavis and Butt-head, Tom Anderson, Mr. Van Driessen, Principal McVicker), Bruce Willis (Muddy Grimes), Demi Moore (Dallas Grimes), Robert Stack (ATF Agent Flemming), etc.While awaking from a crazy dream, Beavis and Butt-head soon realize that their TV was stolen from a bunch of thieves, and they were mad, so its them on a journey across America to find their TV, not only that, someone is hold captive of a deadly device that belongs to the FBI, it can be found in Beavis's shorts. While searching for the TV, they stop a motel where Muddy Grimes (voice of Bruce Willis) wants them to get Dallas (voice of Demi Moore) back in relationship, elsewhere, they stop at Tom Anderson's trailer and they screwed up his TV, once they stop at Las Vegas, they found Dallas caught in a terrorist control. Chaos ensues when they mess around with the control panel of the Hoover Dam. While many places to go, they got lost in a desert with two Motley Crue roadies, after that, they nearly die from dehydration until Muddy came up to pick them up to get them to Washington DC. Once they get there, the agents are on the run of the unit. After that's taking care of, Tom Anderson, Muddy and Dallas Grimes were arrested and Beavis and Butt-head saved everybody from total chaos, finally, they found their TV lying on the motel sidewalk.This is classic Mike Judge at it's best, next to King of the Hill, and the movie Office Space.One of the funniest scenes in the movie is the Cornholio scene. I can laugh at that all night long. For a movie based cartoon film, it's 1,000,000 times better than that Spongebob Squarepants garbage.This movie is awesome, you'll laugh like there's no tomorrow.Beavis and Butt-head Do America gets 10 stars.