BEAVIS AND BUTTHEAD DO AMERICA Review By David Wilcock (C)1998
Starring Mike Judge, Bruce Willis, Demi Moore and Robert Stack
Directed by Mike Judge
The two thickest, rudest and sex desperate teenagers on MTV finally made there way to the movies with this uneven, but usually funny road movie. The film opens with Beavis and Butthead (both voiced by Mike Judge) waking up to find that they television has been stolen. While searching for it, they stumble into Muddy's (voiced by Bruce Willis) motel room. Muddy mistakes Beavis and Butthead for two murderers he hired to 'do' (i.e kill) his wife (voiced by Willis' real life wife, Demi Moore) Naturally, the boys mistake 'do' for 'have sex with' his wife, and go to 'do' his wife. When they finally reach the wife, she tells them to kill Muddy, and also hides a deadly virus into Beavis's pants, which the F.B.I are after. Soon, our heroes have Muddy, the wife, and the F.B.I all trying to kill them.
Beavis and Butthead prove to be their normal irritating, yet strangely likeable selves. There are some good movie references, such as King Kong (1933) and every single blaxploitation film ever made (such as the classic Shaft (1971)) The voices are good, with Bruce Willis and Demi Moore delivering fine performances, and an resonable funny Robert Stack (1941 (1979), Airplane! (1980)) as a cavity searching obsessed F.B.I officer.
But although the performances are good, the jokes are hit and miss. I have never watched Beavis and Butthead on MTV, so this was the first time I was introduced to their world. Some of the gags are great (such as an hippy teacher singing 'Lesbian Seagull,' before being flattened by a door) yet some are pretty awful (such as Cornholio, which, although funny at first, started to grow on my nerves.) Thankfully, though, the film is not particulary long (about 1 hour 20 minutes) so when the gags do start running out, the film is about to end anyway.
Fans of the television show will probably enjoy this far more than I did, but I would still recommend this film to people who are unfamiliar with Beavis and Butthead. There are some good jokes in there, and the film is resonably good fun. Overall, then, this a enjoyable, if not particulary smart, comedy.
OVERALL= *** out of *****
REVIEW BY DAVID WILCOCK ©1998 DAVID WILCOCK david.wilcock@btinternet.com Visit the Wilcock Movie Page! http://wilcockmovie.home.ml.org -OR- http://www.geocities.com/hollywood/9061
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