Note: This review was originally posted to my Epinions account.
Beavis and Butthead to America is based on a popular TV series on MTV
that aired around the time I was in high school. The show focused on
two teenagers that had little else to do than to make trouble at school,
waste time working at a burger place and to comment on music videos.
They were so oblivious to their surroundings that the show was
essentially a study in dramatic irony. Many of us were sad when the
show went off the air. Then, in 1996, a Beavis and Butthead movie was
released. The masses rejoiced.
The movie begins when the duo's TV set is stolen. Being the slackers that they are, their entire lives revolve around the TV set. They have to find their TV set. So, they set off to get it back. Along they way, they meet Muddy. Muddy will pay them good money to ‘do' his wife, Dallas. (Beavis and Butthead take ‘do' to mean ‘have sex with' instead of ‘kill'.) Having seen a picture of her, they think it a very fair deal. Not only do they get to ‘do' an attractive woman, but they get paid to do so.
So, they're off to Las Vegas to find Dallas. If you've seen the show, you know that the movie is going to be one long comedy of errors. Beavis and Butthead have no idea what they're doing, or even what they're supposed to do. They have no experience tracking someone down. Amazingly, they do manage to find her. They get really confused when she doubles his offer to do her husband. It's then that she realizes what they're thinking and sends them off on a tour bus loaded with seniors.
The rest of the movie is Beavis and Butthead bouncing around the country not really knowing what they're doing. Both are idiots, usually oblivious to their surroundings, so this is nothing new. Throughout the movie, Beavis and Butthead are being chased by federal agents. They manage to outsmart them entirely by luck. Despite the agents' best efforts, Beavis and Butthead manage to stay ahead of them.
Those that saw the TV series will not be in for many surprises. Most of the major characters are in it. The movie doesn't have the music-video commentary that the TV series had. However, a good part of the show was the total slacker humor. This is the worst that teenagers of the time had to offer. I don't know how the movie (or the TV show) would hold up if it was aired today.
Those of my generation loved Beavis and Butthead. Most of the jokes required a little bit of thought, but were generally easy to get. For instance, part of the movie shows Beavis and Butthead having their picture taken at various city-limit signs like Butte, MT. Yes, they can be mildly offensive. When a woman says that she's going to score on the slots in Vegas, Beavis thinks she means sluts.
For those that are a generation younger than me, I think you'd be able to get some of the humor, but part of it will be lost. Yes, fart jokes never get old, but there are going to be a few references that were meant for the 90s. I think at this point, it's safe to say that there's not going to be a sequel, although I do think there would be a definite market for it.
The movie begins when the duo's TV set is stolen. Being the slackers that they are, their entire lives revolve around the TV set. They have to find their TV set. So, they set off to get it back. Along they way, they meet Muddy. Muddy will pay them good money to ‘do' his wife, Dallas. (Beavis and Butthead take ‘do' to mean ‘have sex with' instead of ‘kill'.) Having seen a picture of her, they think it a very fair deal. Not only do they get to ‘do' an attractive woman, but they get paid to do so.
So, they're off to Las Vegas to find Dallas. If you've seen the show, you know that the movie is going to be one long comedy of errors. Beavis and Butthead have no idea what they're doing, or even what they're supposed to do. They have no experience tracking someone down. Amazingly, they do manage to find her. They get really confused when she doubles his offer to do her husband. It's then that she realizes what they're thinking and sends them off on a tour bus loaded with seniors.
The rest of the movie is Beavis and Butthead bouncing around the country not really knowing what they're doing. Both are idiots, usually oblivious to their surroundings, so this is nothing new. Throughout the movie, Beavis and Butthead are being chased by federal agents. They manage to outsmart them entirely by luck. Despite the agents' best efforts, Beavis and Butthead manage to stay ahead of them.
Those that saw the TV series will not be in for many surprises. Most of the major characters are in it. The movie doesn't have the music-video commentary that the TV series had. However, a good part of the show was the total slacker humor. This is the worst that teenagers of the time had to offer. I don't know how the movie (or the TV show) would hold up if it was aired today.
Those of my generation loved Beavis and Butthead. Most of the jokes required a little bit of thought, but were generally easy to get. For instance, part of the movie shows Beavis and Butthead having their picture taken at various city-limit signs like Butte, MT. Yes, they can be mildly offensive. When a woman says that she's going to score on the slots in Vegas, Beavis thinks she means sluts.
For those that are a generation younger than me, I think you'd be able to get some of the humor, but part of it will be lost. Yes, fart jokes never get old, but there are going to be a few references that were meant for the 90s. I think at this point, it's safe to say that there's not going to be a sequel, although I do think there would be a definite market for it.
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