Beavis And Butt-Head Do The Universe Is One Of The Movies Of The Year
I was ready to ignore Paramount Plus, which recently launched in the UK, because who needs another streaming service in their life, right? Then I saw there was a new Beavis and Butt-Head movie on there, written and directed by series creator Mike Judge. Damn. They got me. I'm in my mid-30s, and I grew up watching these idiots on Channel 4 every Friday night, so Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe—their first feature length misadventure since 1996's Beavis and Butt-Head Do America—is aimed squarely at someone like me. I'm always wary of beloved characters from a bygone era being revived for a new audience, but I should have known Judge would be able to pull it off. Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe is both brilliantly stupid and just plain brilliant.
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In the real world, the first run of Beavis and Butt-Head ended in 1997. There was a comeback series in 2011, but the movie seems to forget it existed. This new story is set a year after the show's cancellation, in 1998, where the boys are continuing to live their best lives: meaning eating nachos, watching music videos, and terrorising their neighbours. Like the previous movie, their oblivious stupidity and the promise of 'scoring' with a woman who has no interest in them, leads them on an odyssey—only this time it's a space odyssey. Don't ask me how, but Beavis and Butt-Head join NASA and end up getting sucked into a black hole, emerging in a strange, confusing new world: Texas in the year 2022. It's an absurd, far-fetched premise, even by this series' standards, but just go with it.
Unphased by being flung into the future, our heroes continue their quest to score, ignorant of a larger problem looming over
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