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Year One
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Beavis and Butt-Head Do America
Generally favorable reviews
Based on 16 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 4 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Adventure | Animation | Comedy
Written by:
Mike Judge (television series "Beavis and Butt-head")
Joe Stillman
Directed by:
Mike Judge
Yvette Kaplan (animation)
Release Date:
Theatrical: December 20, 1996
DVD: November 23, 1999
Running Time: 81 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: PG-13 for continuous crude sex-related humor and language, and for a drug-related scene
Starring Mike Judge, Cloris Leachman, Robert Stack, Jacqueline Barba, Eric Bogosian, Demi Moore, Bruce Willis, and Greg Kinnear
Beavis and Butt-head hit the road in search of their stolen TV and get mistaken for hit-men hired to "do" a man's sexy wife (Moore). In the pursuit of their misunderstood task, the duo tour the country from Vegas, to the Grand Canyon, and finally to D.C. where Beavis' alter-ego Cornholio makes his last stand at the White House.
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Film Threat Brad Laidman
Even the harshest critic has to recognize the sheer unbridled joy of their ignorance.
Read Full Review >The New Yorker Bruce Diones
Their monumentally stupid and childish observations burst like water balloons over the heads of everyone they encounter; the movie plays like a dumbed-down "Animal House," and its idiocy is irresistible.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
A wellspring of lowbrow comedy that leaves you giggling in spite of yourself. Truly, it does not suck.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
Those who deplore Beavis and Butt-Head are confusing the messengers with the message.
Read Full Review >Variety Joe Leydon
Has some genuinely amusing moments of dumb and dumber silliness.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas
Successfully brings to the big screen those no-brainer nerds who have brought laughter to living rooms around the world for nearly four years.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Desson Thomson
Takes the spirit of their late night TV show and flies with it.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Lisa Alspector
A hallucination sequence and a scene set in a Vegas nightclub are so engrossing you forget they're animated; even the showiest techniques don't detract from the story.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
Scene for scene, the duo are in good form. Yet this is one case where more turns out to be less.
Read Full Review >ReelViews James Berardinelli
Those who have learned to enjoy the duo on MTV (for whatever reason) will welcome this as a holiday treat. Everyone else will have a better time if they stay away.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Staff (Not credited)
It's just as juvenile as you'd expect, and even funnier.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
Admirers of their MTV series will find a few laughs in this animated odyssey. Others will find it as repetitious as it is vulgar.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Gary Kamiya
There are some yucks in this ludicrous movie, but what was amusingly imbecilic at 20 inches becomes simply simian at 20 feet. To paraphrase SCTV's fishing louts, some things just don't blow up real good.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
Has some funny moments, and if you're a Beavis and Butt-head fan, you'll enjoy the movie.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) John Krewson
Adds up to another prefab youth-culture event and a mediocre movie.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 9.0 (out of 10) based on 4 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Sam gave it a9:
While Butt-head is indeed hysterical, the real star of this movie is beavis. "Cornholio" is one of the funniest things to ever grace cinema and the music video/mirage sequence will leave you dying.
Pat C. gave it a7:
There's actually some character development here as we take a trip to the shallow end of the gene pool to find out how the boys turned into such losers. Good tunes. Frighteningly reminiscent peyote scene. Easy story line. And of course the maddening chaos caused as the boys who, though immune to stress, are such virulent carriers.
