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based on the

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animated television series ''

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''. The film was co-written and directed by series creator

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, who also reprises his roles from the series;

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and

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star in supporting roles. The film follows

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and

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, two teen slackers who travel the US 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

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composed the film's score. ''Beavis and Butt-Head Do America'' premiered at

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on December 15, 1996, and was released in the United States on December 20, 1996, by

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. The film later aired on

in 1999. The film was a critical and commercial success, 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 ''

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'', and was the second highest-grossing animated film of 1996, behind

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's '' The Hunchback of Notre Dame'' (which also starred Moore). A stand-alone sequel, ''

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'', was released in 2022.

Plot

and

discover that their television has been stolen and set out to find it. After several failed attempts to obtain one, they come across a motel that offers one in every room. They meet Muddy Grimes, who mistakes them for hired hitmen and offers them $10,000 to "do" his wife Dallas in

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. Thinking he wants them to have sex with her, Butt-Head convinces Beavis that they can finally "score" and buy a new TV. Muddy drives the boys to the airport. In Las Vegas, Beavis and Butt-Head arrive at their hotel room, but Dallas catches them eavesdropping and holds them at gunpoint. The boys refuse Dallas's offer of $20,000 to "do" Muddy and argue over who will "do" Dallas first. Realizing that Beavis and Butt-Head have misunderstood their instructions, she plants the X-5 unit, a stolen

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, in Beavis's shorts. She tells them to meet her at the U.S. Capitol. Beavis and Butt-Head board a tour bus. After they accidentally sabotage

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, Agent Flemming of the

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becomes convinced that the duo are criminal masterminds and places them on the FBI's most-wanted list. At

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, Beavis and Butt-Head accidentally board a bus full of nuns who are repulsed by the boys and abandon them in

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. After walking through the desert, the boys meet two former

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, oblivious that they are their biological fathers. Muddy returns to the motel, meets the real hitmen, and angrily swears to track down and kill Beavis, Butt-Head, and Dallas. The hitmen, who stole Beavis and Butt-Head's TV, abandon it in front of the motel. Beavis and Butt-Head awaken to find the drifters gone and continue walking until they become dehydrated and weak, they start to see their lives flash before their eyes, with Butthead reminiscing on him and Beavis growing up together while Beavis sees himself as a

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going inside an

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. While suffering dehydration, Beavis takes a bite out of a peyote cactus, causing him to have hallucinations of himself and Butt-Head being in a

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heavy-metal type music video. Muddy finds Beavis and Butt-Head. After learning that Dallas intends to meet them, he puts them in his trunk and drives on. In

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, they jump out onto the interstate and cause a 400-car pileup. They walk past the scene and board their original tour bus, stopping at the Capitol before reaching the

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. Muddy confronts Dallas in a parking garage before she can meet Beavis and Butt-Head. She seduces him and they have sex in his car, but they are found and arrested by the ATF. The ATF is dispatched to the White House because Beavis and Butt-Head are there on the same day as a peace conference. Beavis consumes caffeine and sugar and transforms into

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, his hyperactive alter ego. Wandering into the

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, he picks up the red phone, causing a military alert. Meanwhile, Butt-Head attempts to seduce

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, but is thrown out of her bedroom window before he is detained and cavity-searched by ATF officers. Beavis goes to their neighbor Tom Anderson's travel trailer, where Anderson catches him masturbating and throws him out. The ATF, thinking Beavis has the bioweapon, are about to open fire when Anderson throws out Beavis's shorts. The shorts are ripped, and the bioweapon flies into Butt-Head's hand, and he casually gives it to Flemming. Anderson is falsely accused of trying to frame Beavis and Butt-Head for a crime of his own and is arrested along with Dallas and Muddy while his wife is taken for a cavity search. Flemming proclaims Beavis and Butt-Head heroes, and they meet President

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, who makes them honorary ATF agents. Beavis and Butt-Head return to Highland, upset that they did not have sex or receive money, but they find their TV at the motel and walk into the sunset carrying it back home, insulting each other along the way until Beavis suggests stopping by Anderson's tool shed.

Voice cast

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, Mr. Van Driessen, and Principal McVicker *

as Muddy Grimes *

as Dallas Grimes *

as Martha the Old Woman *

as Agent Flemming Lisa Collins has an uncredited role as Marcie Anderson, and

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has an uncredited role as ATF Agent Bork.

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(credited as Earl Hofert) had a role as a

roadie.

Production

Development began in 1993 as part of a production deal with

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, and

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Geffen so believed in the potential of the ''Beavis and Butt-head'' TV series that he suggested creating a film and record album based on the program. They originally conceived it in live-action, with ''

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'' regulars

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and

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in mind to play the title characters. After MTV's parent company

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acquired

's parent company Paramount Communications on July 7, 1994, the studio became a partner in the film, replacing Warner's interest in the project and dropping the live action concept under pressure from series creator

. Judge has stated production of the animated film was very ad hoc and had some difficulties with progressing due to most of the staff's television background. The animation of the film was provided by

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. The hallucination sequence's design and animation was based on the works of

. The sequence's director was

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Deleted scene

When the film premiered on MTV on August 7, 1999, an additional

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followed the airing: while visiting the

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, Beavis attempts to use the restroom, but cannot because of the lack of toilet paper in the stall. Coincidentally, Butt-head is angry because the urinals lack the automatic flushing mechanisms that had amazed him at

. After the rest of their tour group finishes looking at the encased

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, Beavis sneaks out, breaks the glass with the U.S. flag pole, and steals it to use as "T.P. for his bunghole." While Archive guards rush to see what happened, Beavis cleans up, and exits the stall with a piece of the Declaration, containing

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's signature, stuck to his shoe. The scene does not appear on the DVD, although it is mentioned on the commentary track. In the track, Judge noted that the scene did not

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well. A deleted scene showing

packing up to leave the White House was also shot as an alternative to the scene in the film depicting Butt-Head meeting Chelsea in her bedroom, in the event that

should lose his 1996 reelection bid to

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; however, by the spring of 1996, Judge chose to keep the original scene, feeling confident that Clinton would win his reelection bid against Dolewhich he ultimately did that November.

Soundtrack

Noticeably missing are "Mucha Muchacha", the version of "

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" with Mr. Van Driessen singing, and the score tracks performed by The London Metropolitan Orchestra, which were released on a separate album. "Two Cool Guys", written and performed by

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funk Funk is a music genre that originated in African-American communities in the mid-1960s when musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of various music genres that were popular among African-Americans in the ...

musician Isaac Hayes, is a semi-parody of Hayes'

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-winning " Theme from ''Shaft''". It incorporates the theme from the ''Beavis and Butt-head'' television series as a rhythm guitar line, and series creator Mike Judge, who wrote the theme, is given a co-writing credit with Hayes in the soundtrack liner notes. The opening credit sequence which the song features is a take-off on popular 1970s cop movies and TV shows with Beavis and Butt-Head as hip ace sleuth Lothario detectives. The version of Ozzy Osbourne's "Walk on Water" is not the same version included in the film. The film used an earlier demo version, while the soundtrack itself contains a later, revised version. The original demo, which appears in the film, can be found on Osbourne's ''Prince of Darkness'' box set. Osbourne and co-writer

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both prefer the demo version heard in the film. "Walk on Water" was released as a single and peaked at number 28 on ''

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''s

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chart. The use of AC/DC's "Gone Shootin is particularly fitting for the series, as Judge himself would eventually admit the guitar solo that serves as the show's theme was in fact the solo from the AC/DC song played backwards. The soundtrack was re-released in 2016 on a special edition LP picture disc.

Certifications

Reception

Box office

''Beavis and Butt-Head Do America'' opened at number 1 in North America on December 20, 1996, collecting $20.1 million in its opening weekend. This broke the record for the highest December opening weekend previously held by '' Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country''. That record was surpassed a year later by ''

''. The film also held the record for the highest December opening weekend for an animated film until surpassed by ''

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'' in 2009. It maintained the highest opening weekend for any rated PG-13 animated film until 2007 when ''

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'' took it. ''Beavis and Butt-Head Do America'' overall earned $63.1 million at the US box office against a $12 million production budget.

Critical reception

Audiences polled by

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gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale.

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of ''

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'' praised the film as a "vulgar" satire on American youth, and compared it favorably to ''

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''. On the film review show ''

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'', Ebert's reviewing partner

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gave the film a "modest recommendation", having been taken with the two lead characters. Ebert and Siskel ultimately awarded it a " two thumbs up" rating. Ty Burr writing for

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gave it a C+ saying it "turns from spoofing teenage dimness to merely embodying it." In a retrospective review in ''

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'' for the film's 25th anniversary, writer Leonard Pierce praised ''Beavis and Butt-Head Do America'' for its continued relevancy into the 21st century. Pierce described the film as "the greatest satire of the twenty-first-century American

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," adding that "we wouldn't be talking about the film at all today if it wasn't still painfully funny, with a distinctly 2020s nervous energy and a rowdy, bubbling pace that never slows down." Pierce concluded that ''Beavis and Butt-Head Do America'' "seems far fresher today than anything

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and

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have done this century."

Accolades

Home media

The film was released on

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on June 10, 1997, and on

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on November 23, 1999, by

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. It was re-released on a Special Edition DVD in 2006. The video went straight to number one in the official UK video charts on release of which it stayed at the number one spot for two weeks before moving to number two during its third week. The movie spent a total of 17 weeks on the official video charts in the UK. The film was released on

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for the first time on December 7, 2021, by Paramount Home Entertainment, in commemoration of the film's 25th anniversary.

Sequel

In the years following, many fans rumored the possibility of a

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or follow-up to the film, tentatively titled ''Beavis and Butt-Head: The Sequel'' or ''Beavis and Butt-Head 2''. On August 31, 2009, during the promotion of ''

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'', Judge said he would like to see Beavis and Butt-Head on the big screen again. In 2019, Judge revealed that he has "some ideas" for a new film, saying there might be potential for a live-action version of the show. In February 2021, it was announced that a new ''Beavis and Butt-Head'' movie was in production for

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, with Mike Judge on board. ''

'' was released on June 23, 2022.

References

External links

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