Product Details

• Actors: Mike Judge, Bruce Willis, Demi Moore, Cloris Leachman, Robert Stack
• Directors: Mike Judge, Brian Mulroney, Mike de Seve, Yvette Kaplan
• Writers: Mike Judge, Brian Mulroney, Joe Stillman
• Producers: Abby Terkuhle
• Format: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Paramount
• VHS Release Date: June 6, 2000
• Run Time: 81 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (123 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6304437544
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #104,104 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Mike Judge, the creator and voice of MTV's insouciant Beavis and Butt-head characters, made his feature film directorial debut with this full-length B&B misadventure, which finds the boys going on a cross-country adventure after their all-important television set is stolen. Fans of the now-defunct TV show will obviously enjoy this film the most, though almost anyone with a passing awareness of the characters will find something to chuckle about. (The funniest recurring gag finds beleaguered B&B neighbor Tom Anderson constantly sabotaged by the guys while on vacation.) Celebrity voices are fun to pick out, particularly that of David Letterman, who rather appropriately plays Butt-head's long-lost father. --Tom Keogh

From The New Yorker

Here's an unexpected and hilarious turn of events: this animated film, based on the popular MTV show, may be the hippest comedy of the season. The crude and lifeless style in which Mike Judge's two disaffected adolescents are drawn wears a little thin over the course of a full-length movie, but the trendy catchphrases, the scatological jokes, and the misogynistic lewdness-a result of endless hours of music-video viewing-make for hormonal, anarchic fun. The plot has the boys on the road in search of thieves who have stolen their treasured television. Their monumentally stupid and childish observations burst like water balloons over the heads of everyone they encounter; the movie plays like a dumbed-down "Animal House," and its idiocy is irresistible. -Bruce Diones
Copyright © 2006 The New Yorker

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24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars "Uh, could you like not stand there and stuff?" (4.5 stars), December 6, 2002

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Michael Crane (Orland Park, IL USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (DVD)

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 unpredictable.

This is a great movie for anyone who loves Beavis and Butt-Head. Is it as good as the shows? Not in my opinion, but it's pretty darn close. The sick and stupid humor is all there and the storyline is very creative and well-done. There are tons of celebrity voices that you just might recognize.

The DVD itself is average. Nothing real new and exciting here. There's two trailers, and that's about it. The sound and picture quality is really good. I just wished the DVD itself had more to offer. This is a movie I wouldn't mind re-buying if they ever decide to make a special edition.

All in all, "Beavis and Butt-Head Do America" is outrageously funny and is a lot more clever than people give it credit for. If you want laughs and a good time, pick up this film as soon as possible. Just thank God that you're not as dumb as these two morons. Thanks to these two dudes, you'll never want to drop out of high school.

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Laughed so hard I almost passed out..., March 2, 2001

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David J. Huber "Addicted to books!" (New York, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Beavis & Butthead Do America [VHS] (VHS Tape)

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 like the musical introduction to starsky and hutch and other truly bad "cinematic" TV shows and movies of the 70s. Thank God we left that decade, eh?

I recommend this movie heartily to anyone who might like Airplane, Monty Python, Hot Shots, or other absurdist humor. Brilliant writing, and hilarious!

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars And the Oscar Goes To............. The Great Cornholio !, August 28, 2000

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paperbackriter (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Beavis and Butt-head Do America (DVD)

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 people laugh. If you're offended by B&B's disgusting brand of humor, avoid this one like Beavis avoids working at Burger World. But,("huh,huh...he said but...") if you liked Beavis & Butthead on MTV, you'll love this video. Beavis & Butthead may never score with the chicks, but they sure scored big with this flick !