Beavis And Butthead the series may have been an acquired taste, but anyone should enjoy their American voyage, now realised on the big screen. They have lost their TV, and set off looking for it. After stumbling across low-life criminal "Muddy Grimes" they are offered the chance to "do" his wife for $10k (As ambiguous a task is ever there was one). This then sets them off on a cross country trip of site seeing, karma and Todd Anderson (The old neighbourhood nemesis). "This sucks" proclaims Butthead. Luckily, the film doesn't.
The humour in "Beavis And Butthead Do America" (let's call it BBDA) is all in it's delivery. In lesser hands most of these jokes would come across as cheap and fruitless. But there's something curiously bizarre about our two protagonists which made the TV series so hilariously compelling. They don't really tell jokes, nor do they provide us with lovable characters to balance the satire like such adult-animation as The Simpsons or Daria. What B&B DO have in abundance is attitude. These are too men so stupid and self-absorbed that when Butthead is confronted by umpteen armed guards attempting to arrest them, all he sees are the guns. "Wow! This is the coolest thing I have ever seen.". The world passes them by, without them even noticing. In a way, it's a classic example of a generation defined by featherbrained shallowness. The highlight of a B&B week would be seeing the video to Black Hole Sun. When their TV is stolen their world falls apart - yet it takes them quite a few seconds to realise what exactly is wrong with their situation - despite footprints and a broken window.
They're not lovable characters. Like The Office, it's compelling in it's hyperbolic depiction of people most of us would have encountered at one time or another, being as goofy and asinine as possible. It's clear the movie is not glorifying these fools, but rather sending them up. Some people have the impression that B&B are the glorification of embraced ignorance. Almost every joke in BBDA is at their expense, which is what makes it so funny. And getting rid of those rubbish music videos.
The humour in "Beavis And Butthead Do America" (let's call it BBDA) is all in it's delivery. In lesser hands most of these jokes would come across as cheap and fruitless. But there's something curiously bizarre about our two protagonists which made the TV series so hilariously compelling. They don't really tell jokes, nor do they provide us with lovable characters to balance the satire like such adult-animation as The Simpsons or Daria. What B&B DO have in abundance is attitude. These are too men so stupid and self-absorbed that when Butthead is confronted by umpteen armed guards attempting to arrest them, all he sees are the guns. "Wow! This is the coolest thing I have ever seen.". The world passes them by, without them even noticing. In a way, it's a classic example of a generation defined by featherbrained shallowness. The highlight of a B&B week would be seeing the video to Black Hole Sun. When their TV is stolen their world falls apart - yet it takes them quite a few seconds to realise what exactly is wrong with their situation - despite footprints and a broken window.
They're not lovable characters. Like The Office, it's compelling in it's hyperbolic depiction of people most of us would have encountered at one time or another, being as goofy and asinine as possible. It's clear the movie is not glorifying these fools, but rather sending them up. Some people have the impression that B&B are the glorification of embraced ignorance. Almost every joke in BBDA is at their expense, which is what makes it so funny. And getting rid of those rubbish music videos.