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Synopsis:
When our favourite cartoon high-schoolers have their home broken into, they come to one conclusion… it sucks.
So they go out on a grand adventure to “find this butt-hole that stole our TV”.
Review:
Hah! I was a huge fan of B&B from the very start and when the movie was released in 1996, my Brother and I saw it together.
For a 14 year old lad who loved the show, this movie was everything I could want.
Has the movie held out these days though? Sure has, but only if you’re an 80s/90s teen who grew up with the show.
B&B isn’t really a universal movie. It drops the acts of having music videos laced into the story (not that there ever really was much actual story per episode) for a more linear plot of traipsing across America running into various forms of adventure, all based around a MacGuffin.
The dropping of certain formatting and going for a basic adventure opens the movie up for non-fans, but is still a little closed because of the humour that maybe only fans will find funny.
What makes the movie watchable though, for fans anyway, is that the characters of Beavis and Butt-Head are at their dumbest best in amongst all the strange and wonderful events they get caught up in, the one-liners and crude remarks they score from the convoluted plotline and the various cartoon violence they dish out on each other.
It’s kinda like The Simpsons, well, in a way… it starts out with them wanting to get their stolen TV back, to thinking they’re going to score, and then ends up with them involved in an International Terrorism plot involving a deadly virus.
There’s not much I can say about the acting or voice-over work tbh. Mike Judge is on form as the main duo, plus a number of others.
Bruce Willis and Demi Moore show up too as Hubby and Wife criminal mastermind duo Muddy and Dallas respectively. Willis in particular doesn’t sound like Willis, he does a pretty good job.
The main voice-overs who make an impression are Tony Darling and David Letterman as the two Mötley Crüe roadies. If you know the main two characters, you’ll know exactly who these two new additions are meant to be.
The action, well, erm, effects… no wait… animation? Yeah, the animation is a touch up from the TV show. It’s still hand drawn and jittery, but has had a bigger budget put to it and there’s a couple computer effects in there too that add that air of bigger-budget to the mix.
The action and highly charged scenes tend to revolve around slapstick cartoon violence, rather much like the TV show, just with more enthusiasm from the filmmakers. A “let’s see what we can do with them now” sort of thing and a “I have an idea for a scene, let’s incorporate it somehow”.
It is pretty funny though at times, especially when Butt-Head is endangering Beavis’ life and laughing about it.
All in all, you’ll need to be a fan of the TV series to enjoy it, as I said it’s not that universal in terms of humour, but the more relaxed take on the B&B world might make it a bit more bearable for someone after a cartoon adventure.
As a fan though, watching in the way fans would, this is a must see if you haven’t yet.
If you’re not a fan, get ready for some crude humour and cartoon slapstick violence.
My Rating: 88%
Review #240, Movie #311
Year Of Release
1996
Director/s
Mike Judge
Producer/s
Abby Terkuhle, Michael Blakely, Mike Judge
Writer/s
Mike Judge, Joe Stillman
Cast
Mike Judge, Mike Judge, Mike Judge, Mike Judge, Mike Judge, Demi Moore, Bruce Willis, Robert Stack, Cloris Leachman, Richard Linklater, Greg Kinnear, Tony Darling and David Letterman
Notes And Trivia
The movie was extremely difficult for the crew to put together, particularly Mike Judge, as all of their past experience was in the television show. Judge explained that with the TV show being so well established, the film was “ad hoc”, meaning it was created in a way that would fit the two main existing characters and left little room for movement in the story they had come up with.
The hallucination scene was directed by animation legend Chris Prynoski and was based on works by Rob Zombie.
During the scene, there is a backwards soundtrack of Beavis and Butt-Head saying “Everybody go to college, study hard, study hard”.
Chris Farley and David Spade were almost cast in the lead roles, as the studios were actually in favour of making the film live-action.
At the time, the movie had the largest December opening weekend of all time.
The AC-DC song Gone Shootin’, makes a show in the movie… the main Gone Shootin’ guitar riff was played backwards and used in the TV show’s start sequence for years without AC-DC knowing about it. It was only in the movie’s DVD Commentary that Mike Judge confesses they used the AC-DC track in the TV show.
The “God Dam” joke was also something Mike Judge hated at the time as it wasn’t the typical Beavis-style line. He got the joke from his Grandmother. Yet it was the one thing in the film that was quoted more than any other line. He has since seen the funny side, but still says he doesn’t like the joke.
Year Of Release
1996
Director/s
Mike Judge
Producer/s
Abby Terkuhle, Michael Blakely, Mike Judge
Writer/s
Mike Judge, Joe Stillman
Cast
Mike Judge, Mike Judge, Mike Judge, Mike Judge, Mike Judge, Demi Moore, Bruce Willis, Robert Stack, Cloris Leachman, Richard Linklater, Greg Kinnear, Tony Darling and David Letterman
Notes And Trivia
The movie was extremely difficult for the crew to put together, particularly Mike Judge, as all of their past experience was in the television show. Judge explained that with the TV show being so well established, the film was “ad hoc”, meaning it was created in a way that would fit the two main existing characters and left little room for movement in the story they had come up with.
The hallucination scene was directed by animation legend Chris Prynoski and was based on works by Rob Zombie.
During the scene, there is a backwards soundtrack of Beavis and Butt-Head saying “Everybody go to college, study hard, study hard”.
Chris Farley and David Spade were almost cast in the lead roles, as the studios were actually in favour of making the film live-action.
At the time, the movie had the largest December opening weekend of all time.
The AC-DC song Gone Shootin’, makes a show in the movie… the main Gone Shootin’ guitar riff was played backwards and used in the TV show’s start sequence for years without AC-DC knowing about it. It was only in the movie’s DVD Commentary that Mike Judge confesses they used the AC-DC track in the TV show.
The “God Dam” joke was also something Mike Judge hated at the time as it wasn’t the typical Beavis-style line. He got the joke from his Grandmother. Yet it was the one thing in the film that was quoted more than any other line. He has since seen the funny side, but still says he doesn’t like the joke.
When our favourite cartoon high-schoolers have their home broken into, they come to one conclusion… it sucks.
So they go out on a grand adventure to “find this butt-hole that stole our TV”.
Review:
Hah! I was a huge fan of B&B from the very start and when the movie was released in 1996, my Brother and I saw it together.
For a 14 year old lad who loved the show, this movie was everything I could want.
Has the movie held out these days though? Sure has, but only if you’re an 80s/90s teen who grew up with the show.
B&B isn’t really a universal movie. It drops the acts of having music videos laced into the story (not that there ever really was much actual story per episode) for a more linear plot of traipsing across America running into various forms of adventure, all based around a MacGuffin.
The dropping of certain formatting and going for a basic adventure opens the movie up for non-fans, but is still a little closed because of the humour that maybe only fans will find funny.
What makes the movie watchable though, for fans anyway, is that the characters of Beavis and Butt-Head are at their dumbest best in amongst all the strange and wonderful events they get caught up in, the one-liners and crude remarks they score from the convoluted plotline and the various cartoon violence they dish out on each other.
It’s kinda like The Simpsons, well, in a way… it starts out with them wanting to get their stolen TV back, to thinking they’re going to score, and then ends up with them involved in an International Terrorism plot involving a deadly virus.
There’s not much I can say about the acting or voice-over work tbh. Mike Judge is on form as the main duo, plus a number of others.
Bruce Willis and Demi Moore show up too as Hubby and Wife criminal mastermind duo Muddy and Dallas respectively. Willis in particular doesn’t sound like Willis, he does a pretty good job.
The main voice-overs who make an impression are Tony Darling and David Letterman as the two Mötley Crüe roadies. If you know the main two characters, you’ll know exactly who these two new additions are meant to be.
The action, well, erm, effects… no wait… animation? Yeah, the animation is a touch up from the TV show. It’s still hand drawn and jittery, but has had a bigger budget put to it and there’s a couple computer effects in there too that add that air of bigger-budget to the mix.
The action and highly charged scenes tend to revolve around slapstick cartoon violence, rather much like the TV show, just with more enthusiasm from the filmmakers. A “let’s see what we can do with them now” sort of thing and a “I have an idea for a scene, let’s incorporate it somehow”.
It is pretty funny though at times, especially when Butt-Head is endangering Beavis’ life and laughing about it.
All in all, you’ll need to be a fan of the TV series to enjoy it, as I said it’s not that universal in terms of humour, but the more relaxed take on the B&B world might make it a bit more bearable for someone after a cartoon adventure.
As a fan though, watching in the way fans would, this is a must see if you haven’t yet.
If you’re not a fan, get ready for some crude humour and cartoon slapstick violence.
My Rating: 88%
