Beavis and butthead do the universe

A nyone seeking a window into the absurdities and stupidities of late-20th-century life could do far worse than the original televised misadventures of Beavis and Butt-Head. Of course, Mike Judge’s animated sensation, which disguised its high satire as the lowest of lowbrow comedy, was something of a mirror, too. Who were its eternally apathetic, horny and destructive adolescent heroes but boardwalk caricatures of the teens watching from home? With Beavis and Butt-Head, MTV lampooned its own audience – a whole generation of fellow tittering coach potatoes – alongside the countless other American stereotypes that passed into the pair’s orbit over seven seasons. Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe isn’t much of a window or a mirror. The hook of this new feature-length vehicle is that it plucks television’s densest duo out of their natural 90s habitat and deposits them straight into the modern world. America hasn’t gotten any less spoofable in the 30 years since Beavis and Butt-Head made their ignoble small-screen debut; there’s no shortage of contemporary targets for Judge to lock in his comedic crosshairs. So why does the film feel like a missed opportunity in the satire department, even as its eponymous slacker idiots score plenty of familiar laughs? Judge, who returns to write, direct and once more voice his most iconically imbecilic characters (yes, that’s still the film-maker supplying Butt-Head’s low, monotonic chortle and Beavis’s higher giggle), borrows a page from ...

All products and services featured are independently chosen by editors. However, Billboard may receive a commission on orders placed through its retail links, and the retailer may receive certain auditable data for accounting purposes. For the first time in 10 years, Beavis and Butt-Head are officially back onscreen together in Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe, arriving on The epic adventure finds the two traveling through space and time. The saga begins with Beavis and Butt-Head getting sentenced to space camp by a juvenile court judge in the year 1998, sending them on a disastrous Space Shuttle trip where they get left in dead space, before traveling through a black hole and re-emerging in the year 2022. Amazon Calls This the World's 'Smallest Bluetooth Speaker'& It's On Sale for Just $10 06/23/2022 In the present, Beavis and Butt-Head discover a very different world that puts them in the crosshairs of NASA, the governor of Texas, and a “highly intelligent version of themselves” from a parallel universe. Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe features the voices of Mike Judge, Gary Cole, Chris Diamantopoulos, Nat Faxon, Brian Huskey, Chi McBride, Tig Notaro, Stephen Root, Andrea Savage, Martin Starr and Jimmy O. Yang. The animated comedy doesn’t take itself too seriously, as it “Beavis and Butt-Head were defining voices of a generation, and to this day, the show is one of the most well-known and beloved animated IPs of all time,” Chris McCarthy, president/CEO, Paramoun...

A nyone seeking a window into the absurdities and stupidities of late-20th-century life could do far worse than the original televised misadventures of Beavis and Butt-Head. Of course, Mike Judge’s animated sensation, which disguised its high satire as the lowest of lowbrow comedy, was something of a mirror, too. Who were its eternally apathetic, horny and destructive adolescent heroes but boardwalk caricatures of the teens watching from home? With Beavis and Butt-Head, MTV lampooned its own audience – a whole generation of fellow tittering coach potatoes – alongside the countless other American stereotypes that passed into the pair’s orbit over seven seasons. Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe isn’t much of a window or a mirror. The hook of this new feature-length vehicle is that it plucks television’s densest duo out of their natural 90s habitat and deposits them straight into the modern world. America hasn’t gotten any less spoofable in the 30 years since Beavis and Butt-Head made their ignoble small-screen debut; there’s no shortage of contemporary targets for Judge to lock in his comedic crosshairs. So why does the film feel like a missed opportunity in the satire department, even as its eponymous slacker idiots score plenty of familiar laughs? Judge, who returns to write, direct and once more voice his most iconically imbecilic characters (yes, that’s still the film-maker supplying Butt-Head’s low, monotonic chortle and Beavis’s higher giggle), borrows a page from ...

All products and services featured are independently chosen by editors. However, Billboard may receive a commission on orders placed through its retail links, and the retailer may receive certain auditable data for accounting purposes. For the first time in 10 years, Beavis and Butt-Head are officially back onscreen together in Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe, arriving on The epic adventure finds the two traveling through space and time. The saga begins with Beavis and Butt-Head getting sentenced to space camp by a juvenile court judge in the year 1998, sending them on a disastrous Space Shuttle trip where they get left in dead space, before traveling through a black hole and re-emerging in the year 2022. Amazon Calls This the World's 'Smallest Bluetooth Speaker'& It's On Sale for Just $10 06/23/2022 In the present, Beavis and Butt-Head discover a very different world that puts them in the crosshairs of NASA, the governor of Texas, and a “highly intelligent version of themselves” from a parallel universe. Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe features the voices of Mike Judge, Gary Cole, Chris Diamantopoulos, Nat Faxon, Brian Huskey, Chi McBride, Tig Notaro, Stephen Root, Andrea Savage, Martin Starr and Jimmy O. Yang. The animated comedy doesn’t take itself too seriously, as it “Beavis and Butt-Head were defining voices of a generation, and to this day, the show is one of the most well-known and beloved animated IPs of all time,” Chris McCarthy, president/CEO, Paramoun...