Film Excess - Free Ukraine - Stop Putin - End the war NOW!!: Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (1996)

11/22/2013

Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (1996) - Judge's hilarious America portrait

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+ Best Road Movie of the Year + Best Satire of the Year

Mike Judge's uniquely off-putting animated teenage characters arrive on the big screen in full colors on this adventure-teasing poster for his Beavis and Butt-Head Do America

Typical US teenagers and heavy rock fans Beavis and Butt-Head suffer the agony of having their TV set stolen, and to get it back they end up crossing the country and falling into a nasty situation with an assassin, without ever really realizing this however.

Beavis and Butt-Head Do America is written by Joe Stillman (Gulliver's Travels (2010)), co-writer/director Brian Mulroney (KaBlam! (1997, TV-series)) and great Ecuadorean-American filmmaker, feature-debuting co-writer/director Mike Judge (Idiocracy (2006)), who created the Beavis and Butt-Head TV-series that ran from 1993-11. Mike de Seve (Father of the Pride (2004, TV-series)) and Yvette Kaplan (Zooey's Zoo (1999, TV movie)) co-directed.

Beavis & Butt-Head Do America may be the funniest adult animation comedy of all time. A road movie comedy based on MTV's popular cartoon-looking series' juvenile duo, the humor is drier, more low-key and hysterical than the loud escapades of Springfield (in the Simpsons TV-series (1989-) and the 2007 movie), and different from the 1999 South Park movie, which are the two closest comparison works.
The animation is neat, and especially the delightful caricatures of a palette of more or less archetypical American characters is highly comical. Robert Stack (Mumford (1999)), Demi Moore (Ghost (1990)), Bruce Willis (Die Hard (1988)) and Cloris Leachman (When We Last Spoke (2019)) deliver some of the best voices in the film, besides the two leads which Judge do himself.

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Watch a trailer for the movie here

Cost: 12 mil. $
Box office: 63.1 mil. $ (North America alone)
= Huge hit (projected return of 5.83 times its cost)

[Beavis and Butt-Head Do America premiered 15 December (Los Angeles) and runs 81 minutes. The show was put on hiatus to make the film. The film opened #1 to a 20.4 mil. $ first weekend in North America, where it spent another weekend in the top 5 (#4), grossing 63.1 mil. $. The film went unreleased in many markets and was likely mostly a North-American-centered hit. My projected world gross total is 70 mil. $. Roger Ebert gave it a 3/4 star review, translating to a notch under this one. A VoD sequel followed in 2022, Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe. Judge returned with Office Space (1999). Beavis and Butt-Head Do America is fresh at 71 % with a 6.40/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

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