"Uh, could you like not stand there and stuff?" (4.5 stars)
How I do miss the boys. At a time when MTV was actually cool and was playing music videos, (what are those again?), Beavis and Butt-head pretty much ruled the channel, providing us with hours after hours of pure entertainment. Was it stupid entertainment? Of course it was, that's why it was so amusing. I actually think of the shows as a clever satire of how high school students are portrayed. Now with their very own film, "Beavis and Butt-Head Do America," the boys are causing more chaos and mischief than ever before.
After their beloved television set is stolen, Beavis and Butt-Head decide to watch another one, no matter where they find it. Their stupidity leads them a drunken fool who mistakes the boys for paid killers he had hired to kill his wife. And things quickly go out of control from one mix up to another. The boys end up being a "national security threat" with every FBI agent after them. And all they wanted was their TV back! The results are hilarious and...
Laughed so hard I almost passed out...
And I'm not kidding. This is absolutely one of the funniest movies I have ever seen, in terms of really dumb people who continue to do really dumb (but amazingly hilarious) things. I have NEVER laughed so hard during a movie - and I do laugh a lot - as I did for this one. I actually missed a few parts of the movie - I was laughing so hard I couldn't pay attention anymore, because I was so worried about not starving myself of oxygen.
Robert Stack is absolutely wonderful as the hard-nosed FBI agent, who wants to cavity search everyone he comes across. He plays his role, a very absurd but serious lawman, with perfecet straightness, like Leslie Nielsen in the airplane movies.
This is a movie that is consistently well-written throughout, with no real weak spots, or lapse in the comedy, and no lapse of self-awareness that Beavis and Butthead are truly stupid - intellectualy, culturaly, socially, and interpersonally, they are completely deficient.
The opening, too, is great - just...
And the Oscar Goes To............. The Great Cornholio !
If you don't laugh at this one, you probably won't laugh at anything ! America's favorite moronic duo hits the road in search of their stolen T.V. and Western Civilization as we know it is never the same. Along the way, the Boys nearly destroy Hoover Dam, hit on a few nuns, and experience a wild hallucenigenic nightmare. (A bizarre sequence which must be seen to believed!)
All of B&B's usual adversaries --Principal McVicker, Mr.Van Driesen and of course, Tom Anderson -- make cameos. And yes, the Boys do everything possible to destroy them as well !
Other highlights: The Charlie's Angels/Starsky & Hutch title sequence is hysterical. Check out Butthead as he wanders the White House halls hoping to score with America's First Daughter, and who could ever forget the Great Cornholio.
"Beavis and Butthead Do America" rules! It isn't meant to be taken seriously -- it's meant to offend and to gross-out the audience. Most of all, it's just meant to make...
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