Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (1996)

Directed by

Mike Judge

Genre

comedy film, adventure film, animated film, crime film, music-themed film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 21m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 786 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two lazy teenage slackers set off across America to find their stolen television. Along the way, they accidentally become fugitives and cause chaos.

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What happens

Beavis and Butt-Head Do America is a 1996 American adult animated comedy road film based on the MTV animated television series Beavis and Butt-Head. The film was co-written and directed by series creator Mike Judge, who also reprises his roles from the series; Demi Moore, Bruce Willis, Robert Stack and Cloris Leachman star in supporting roles. The film follows Beavis and Butt-Head, two teen slackers who travel the US in search of their stolen television and unknowingly become fugitives. Previous offers by MTV to adapt Beavis and Butt-Head to film were rejected by Judge, before he eventually agreed to the film in 1994. As production began, the series' staff halted production while Judge wrote the screenplay with Joe Stillman. John Frizzell composed the film's score. Beavis and Butt-Head Do America premiered at Mann's Chinese Theater on December 15, 1996, and was released in the United States on December 20, 1996, by Paramount Pictures. The film was a critical and commercial success, with critics praising the story and humor, and grossing $63.1 million in the United States and becoming the largest December box office opening of all time until it was surpassed the following year by Scream 2, and was the second highest-grossing animated film of 1996, behind Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame (which also starred Moore). A sequel, Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe, was released in 2022. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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