Somehow, the MTV folks and Paramount Pictures were impressed enough by the "Beavis and Butt-Head" TV show to green light a movie version...a crazy gamble that paid off big-time as the movie turned out to be a hit and made them many times their investment. Why did the film work? Well, part of it is because the movie got rid of the most annoying thing about the TV show...the music videos. So, in the film you got nothing but Beavis and Butt-Head...and all their insanely stupid antics. Another reason, and this is a real shocker, Siskel & Ebert liked this one...a lot...and folks took their thumbs up to heart!
When the picture begins, thieves make off with the boys' television set...and they are naturally unable to function without it as watching TV is almost all they do. But through their efforts to find a television set, they wander into a murder for hire plot, destroy Hoover Dam and plunge Vegas into chaos, smuggle a killer virus from the US government, get on the FBI's most-wanted list and generally make a mess of everything while they laugh like idiots (because they are) at all sorts of childish double entendres. On their tails throughout is a crazed Federal Agent with a strong penchant for cavity searches.
Sophisticated entertainment, this certainly is not. The film is very crude, often stupid and the animation is of only passable quality. But, it also is funny IF you are the sort of person who laughs at these guys and their idiotic antics. Others should steer clear and avoid the film at all costs!! As for me, I did (despite myself) enjoy it...and liked watching my wife roll her eyes and complain throughout about the dubious quality of the movie.
When the picture begins, thieves make off with the boys' television set...and they are naturally unable to function without it as watching TV is almost all they do. But through their efforts to find a television set, they wander into a murder for hire plot, destroy Hoover Dam and plunge Vegas into chaos, smuggle a killer virus from the US government, get on the FBI's most-wanted list and generally make a mess of everything while they laugh like idiots (because they are) at all sorts of childish double entendres. On their tails throughout is a crazed Federal Agent with a strong penchant for cavity searches.
Sophisticated entertainment, this certainly is not. The film is very crude, often stupid and the animation is of only passable quality. But, it also is funny IF you are the sort of person who laughs at these guys and their idiotic antics. Others should steer clear and avoid the film at all costs!! As for me, I did (despite myself) enjoy it...and liked watching my wife roll her eyes and complain throughout about the dubious quality of the movie.