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Summary: Beavis & Butt-Head Rock!!!!
Review: One of the funniest 'underground' TV shows becomes one of the five funniest theatrical comedy films of the 1990's! BEAVIS AND BUTT-HEAD DO AMERICA (1996) stars our favorite pair of perpetually horny and clueless Texas teens as they go searching all over the country for their stolen TV set---while trying to "score," of course. That's all the plot there is! That's all the plot there needs to be; indeed, the whole point of this film is to sit back and follow the precocious, infectiously chuckling duo as they get from Point A to Point Z---with lots of stops along the way---and do what they do best. Besides doing the voices of the titular characters---"hehe hehe"---Mike Judge also voices that old favorite, Tom Anderson, who would later metamorphose into Hank Hill. (As a testament to Judge's perpetual maintenance of television popularity, "King of the Hill" is currently in its seventh season and has by far outlasted the show that spawned it.) In his work, Mike Judge really shows that he is not merely a voice-over comedian; rather, he is a social commentator of all the different types of people you'd likely find in Middle America...and he is very funny. Plot being irrelevant in this film, expect to see the kind of gags used on the show reappearing here (including, of course, The Amazing Cornholio!) and jammed into 80 minutes of quality crude comedy. Because this is a PG-13 movie, the crudeness is definitely turned up a notch from the TV show; however, nothing too outrageous happens (at least not onscreen). Robert Stack has a lot of fun spoofing his serious Elliot Ness image in the character of ATF Agent Flemming, who displays a much-too-eager predilection for cavity searches. (That's DEEP cavity searches!) In fact, this is his most inspired comedic performance since AIRPLANE! (1980). Cloris Leachman also has a lot of fun as a nice little old lady who keeps meeting Beavis & Butt-head at various times throughout their adventure and, miraculously enough, can see no wrong in them whatsoever. Other standout voice-overs are handled by Eric Bogosian (remember him from Oliver Stone's TALK RADIO?), Jacqueline Barba, Pamela Blair and even David Letterman! Bottom line: If you loved the TV show, you'll love the movie; although if you loved the TV show, that most likely means that you already own this on DVD and have seen it at least 10 times. If you were too young to remember the show, but like stoner comedy in general, then you can safely bet you'll like this one. At the time it was released, BEAVIS AND BUTT-HEAD DO AMERICA was the funniest feature-length animated film of all time. Even though it easily lost that title to the Trey Parker/Matt Stone sidesplitter SOUTH PARK: BIGGER, LONGER AND UNCUT just a few years later, this movie still, like, totally rules in its own right. And it's got one killer soundtrack. Yeah, dude! HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
MOST RECOMMENDED FOR FANS OF THE TV SHOW
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Summary: Five stars for the movie, considerably less for the DVD...
Review: INTRODUCTION:
Beavis and Butt-Head is not only the most successful series in the history of MTV, it's also the very best. Mike Judge is a comedy genius, and he proved it with this series. His series became so successful, that he even made a major motion picture! Read on for my review of Beavis and Butt-Head Do America. BASIC PLOT:
Beavis and Butt-Head have been robbed of the most important thing of theirs in the world - their television. They go looking for it, but end up as pawns in a plan to unleash a biological weapon in Washington D.C. FILM OPINIONS:
Great film. I had my doubts that Beavis and Butt-Head would transfer well to the big screen, but this film shattered those doubts. If you liked the series, it's doubtful that you won't like the film. Voice acting is one of the greatest aspects of this film. Among the voice actors are Bruce Willis and Demi Moore as smugglers, and the late Robert Stack as the head of the ATF. Even the musical arrangement was done well. There's a little bit of everything musical in this movie, and everything seems to fit in perfectly. In the end, this film is one of Mike Judge's masterpieces. DVD:
I LOVED the film, but the DVD could have been WAY better. First and foremost, you don't get an option between full screen and widescreen on the disc - you have to purchase one or the other. Second is the lack of extras. There's two trailers for the film and that's it! Where's the deleted "national archives" scene that aired on MTV? Also, episodes of the series would have been a good extra. Of course, Paramount doesn't exactly have a reputation for putting good extras on DVDs, so I guess this was to be expected. OVERALL:
Overall this is a great film, I just wish the DVD would have been done better! Paramount needs some serious counseling when it comes to putting good extras on their DVDs! But I won't let that little blunder get in the way of the movie, which is the main attraction. Do yourself a favor and watch this movie - it will be impossible not to laugh.
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Summary: HILARIOUS. NUMB-SKULLED, YES, BUT THAT'S THE POINT BEAVIS.
Review: This big-screen version of the popular MTV breakout hit about the dimwitted duo probably won't make any converts, but if you're already a fan, there's a whole lot to enjoy. The doozy theme: famed slackers Beavis and Butt-Head go on a cross country trip to find their stolen television, but mistaken identity plunges them deep into a complex terrorist scheme. Whether you like Intelligently Silly comedies or not is up to you, but this DVD is easily one of my prized possessions now, for the following reasons: (1) It's a B&B show without any of the ads or music video interruptions
(2) And it's a pure gut-buster. Some gags are laugh out loud
(3) The cast of voices is terrific (e.g., Demi Moore, David Letterman, Bruce Willis)
(4) The music, surprisingly, is pretty neat (e.g., White Zombie, AC/DC)
(5) What do you know, it's actually got a plot to it that had me watching Highly recommended rental to enjoy with friends or to convert a slow evening into some quality time.
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Summary: funny stuff
Review: I like Beavis and Butthead. But not for four or five stars. Let's face it, this was probably the best the movie could be. Yeah Yeah. The Cornholio stuff is worth the price.
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Summary: Surprisingly Good
Review: In an interview in the special features of one of the Star Trek DVDs, Patrick Stewart said that he was the only member of the Academy to vote for "Beavis and Butt-Head Do America" for best picture. I think "Braveheart" won that year. Anyway, based on Captain Picard's rcommendation, I decided to have a look. I was surprised to find that it was relatively coherent and watchale all the way through. If you hated the MTV series, I'm sure you'll hate the movie nearly as much, but if you like idiotic juvenile humor,
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Summary: Do WHAT????
Review: What a waste of time and supidity! Hahahahahahaha ... Yea Butthead did you see ...
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Summary: Not the very best of Bevis and Butthead
Review: After this film Mike Judge more or less wapped B&B up and I can see why. They are funny characters in short stories but this film kind of lost it's funny side and became limp. A must for any fan, but in my mind not that brilliant. On MTV though they were absolutely brilliant.
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Summary: Get a life
Review: Stop writing all your thoughts like people care what you think. Take your hands off the keyboard and go disrespect yourself.
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Summary: Probably the happiest memory of the whole marriage...
Review: New Year's Day, 1996, I made a rather foolish, STUPID mistake, and "married" a woman who - she said - had been "chasing" me since 1980 (refer to Eccleasiastes 7:26 in your Bible). I mention this, because concurrently I discovered Beavis & Butthead, courtesy of my betrothed's 9 year old son. Of course, I was immediately captivated, and, as I've mentioned in several other reviews, since I've pretty much eschewed "popular music" since about the time Elvis died, it made me very, VERY HAPPY to view videos with Beavis & Butthead and learn that I wasn't the ONLY one who didn't particularly care for "Winger" or "Faith No More." You get the idea, rock and roll's been dead since 1977, and its "remnant" has all pretty generic since. Anyway, by February, my stepson and I were quoting entire blocks of dialogue from B&B (which, of course, went over like the proverbial **** in the punchbowl with my "wife"), and I was taking the ersatz "remote" off the B&B book, "This Sucks, Change It!" with me to work. So you can imagine how happy it made me to learn that "Beavis & Butthead Do America" would be released a couple of weeks before Christmas that year. I took my stepson and his cousin to see it, and it took the three of us until probably February of 1997 to quit acting out entire scenes or laughing about the movie. Needless to say, I caught unmitigated hell from my stepson's relatives and from the folks with whom we attended Church. But, truth is, except for that one line in the movie where Beavis takes the Lord's name in vain while he & Butthead are visiting the Hoover Dam, there was absolutely NOTHING worse in the movie than what my stepson heard EVERY DAY at school. Enough babbling: "B&B Do America" was and is the funniest movie I've seen since 1987 ("Raising Arizona"), and the series' subsequent absence has removed ANY justification for MTV's existence. OK, I've whined enough. Buy this movie, sit back and view it when you're in a..."happily irresponsible" (you know what I mean) mood, and I can guarantee you the most thorough, the most hysterical, tears-down-your-face laughter you've experienced since (this's gonna give my age away) your first Marx Brothers movie. The scene in the desert when B&B meet their fathers is, probably, alone worth the price of the movie, but the running gag about hapless neighbor, Tom Anderson, or the scene where B&B are dancing to "Love Rollar Coaster" in Las Vegas, or - especially - where they run amuck in the White House, and Butthead tries to flirt with First Daughter, Chelsea, are hilarious, too. "B&B Do America," along with "Raising Arizona" and/or Chevy's Chase's "Modern Problems" will do the exact same thing for you that Prozac is supposed to do, and IT doesn't require a doctor's prescription.
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Summary: funnier than king of the hill
Review: this movie is so freaken hilarious. beavis and butthead do america is like one of my all time favorite movies. mike judge is a genious. this movie kicks sleeping beauty's ass. this movie is about 2 teens who looses their tv. the whole adventure is about that. thats why it is so freaken smerph. im warning you people though this movies is only for idiots, why you think ebert and Siskel liked it. well there smart so ill ive give them that. but why george bush didnt like it is way out of the question. im pretty sure every other president in the world wonders that.
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