Beavis and Butt-Head Do America

Infobox_Film
name = Beavis and Butt-Head Do America


caption = Promotional Poster For "Beavis and Butt-Head Do America"
writer = Mike Judge,
Joe Stillman
starring = Mike Judge
Bruce Willis
Demi Moore
Robert Stack
Cloris Leachman
Greg Kinnear (uncredited)
David Letterman (credited as Earl Hofert)
director = Mike Judge,
Yvette Kaplan (animation)
producer = Abby Turkuhle
distributor = Paramount Pictures
MTV Films
released = December 20, 1996
country = flag|United States
runtime = 81 minutes (1:20:45)
language = English
budget = $12 million
gross = $63.11 million | music = John Frizzel
amg_id = 1:136658
imdb_id = 0115641

"Beavis and Butt-Head Do America" is an animated feature film, based on the TV series, "Beavis and Butt-Head", that was released on December 20, 1996, produced by Paramount Pictures, Geffen Pictures, and MTV Films, and directed by Mike Judge. The film grossed $20.11 million in its opening weekend, and grossed a total of $63.11 million in North America.

Plot

The film opens with Butt-Head dreaming about himself and Beavis as giants attacking the city, Butt-Kong, who grabs a woman from the window, and Beaviszilla, who is kicking up tanks and breathing fire on the army. They are being hit by constant volleys of shots from helicopters, tanks, and missile launchers. Butt-Head is then woken by Beavis, exclaming in horror that their TV has been stolen. In their efforts to replace their television, the title characters steal a TV from school and accidentally destroy it, resulting in their expulsion. During their search, they stumble onto Tom Anderson's camper, and while watching TV in there, accidentally destroy that TV when Beavis spits soda all over it, because "this crap is warm." They visit a low-quality motel that advertises TVs in every room. After bumbling into a room in which their principal is getting spanked by a prostitute, they encounter the drunken Muddy Grimes (voiced by Bruce Willis) who is waiting for two hired hitmen, the same men who stole Beavis and Butt-Head's television, to murder his wife, Dallas.

Grimes, thinking Beavis and Butt-Head are the killers he has contracted, tells them that they must "do" (murder) his wife. Thinking that by "do", Grimes means "score with", Butt-Head convinces Beavis that both of them can "score" and then use the money to buy a new TV. Muddy then hands them a photograph of his wife with instructions on where to find her. Beavis asks if they can watch TV first, which Muddy subsequently shoots. He drives them to LAX airport to catch the plane to her hotel room on the Las Vegas Strip. During the plane ride, both Beavis and Butt-Head manage to cause chaos, with Butt-Head unbuckling his seatbelt and tumbling to the back of the plane during takeoff. During the flight, Beavis consumes massive quantities of caffeine pills given to him by an old lady. He subsequently transforms into Cornholio, and nearly causes the plane to crash when be barges into the cockpit and scares the pilot and co-pilot.

Upon meeting the two teenage boys, the hunted woman, Dallas Grimes (voiced by Demi Moore) realizes they have no idea what they were actually hired for. While Beavis and Butt-Head begin fighting over who will "do" Dallas first, the police arrive to arrest her. Thinking quickly, she plants a stolen biological weapon called the "X-5 Unit" in Beavis' pants in order to get rid of it as evidence. She then gets them tickets on a tour bus to Washington, D.C. instructing them that she will be waiting for them in the capitol of the United States and will let them "do her" there.

After getting on the bus, the pair unleash a chain of chaos across the states they travel, several times crossing the path of their long-suffering neighbor, Mr. Anderson, who is on a cross-country vacation with his wife. During their quest, they damage the Hoover Dam, which causes a blackout across Las Vegas. Meanwhile the ATF starts looking for them, desperate to get the weapon back before it goes off and kills thousands. While wandering through the desert, the boys meet two men who strongly resemble them. The men tell them that they once hooked up with two "sluts" from the boys' hometown of Highland. Despite genetic evidence to the contrary, Butt-Head's dad acts as his son would, and claims that he slept with both the women while Beavis's dad "didn't score". The boys then continue to survive the desert and after munching on a cactus, Beavis goes into a hellish hallucination. The next day they are found by Muddy Grimes, after nearly dying of dehydration. Muddy agrees to take them the rest of the way in his car trunk, and they spend the trip laughing at his car jack. In the middle of I-81 in Virginia, Butt-Head jacks the trunk open, and they escape, causing a huge traffic accident in the process, and finally reach the White House. Before Dallas can meet with Beavis and Butt-Head to recover the weapon, she is confronted in the parking garage by Muddy, who flies into a rage when he realizes that the two managed to escape from his trunk. Muddy then ties her wrists together. Muddy and Dallas then briefly reconcile before they are arrested by the ATF while having sex in Muddy's car. Faced with the possibility of a 60 year jail sentence, Dallas betrays Muddy, telling the ATF that he hid the weapon despite the fact that they both get a life sentence.

During their visit to the white house, Beavis consumes more caffeine pills given to him by the same old lady that was on the plane. He transforms into Cornholio in the White House. During his adventures, he asks if a painting of Richard Nixon is threatening him, and causing the Army to go to DEFCON 4. Meanwhile, Butt-Head wanders around the White House and encounters Chelsea Clinton putting away clothes in her bedroom. Butt-head makes a pass at her, and she promptly throws him out the window. As Beavis is calming down from his caffene high, the phallic imagery of the Washington Monument convinces him to whack off in Mr. Anderson's camper. Eventually the ATF spots Beavis/Cornholio, believing that the weapon is on him. They are just about to fire upon him when Mr. Anderson opens his camper door telling Beavis to take his pants with him, which causes the ATF to go after his pants. The pants are ripped open, with the weapon flying out of them. The weapon is recovered with Beavis and Butt-Head causing the maximum of chaos in the process, ultimately pinning blame for the theft on Mr. Anderson. Bill Clinton makes them honorary ATF agents. Afterwards, they return to Highland and find their TV on the side of the road. The movie ends with them carrying their TV into the sunset while insulting each other with various names, before deciding to stop by Tom Anderson's toolshed.

Guest voices

*Bruce Willis - Muddy Grimes (uncredited in the end credits from the theatrical version; credited in the home video version)
*Demi Moore - Dallas Grimes (uncredited in the end credits from the theatrical version; credited in the home video version)
*Cloris Leachman - Old Woman
*Robert Stack - ATF Agent Flemming
*Greg Kinnear - ATF Agent Bork (uncredited)
*Richard Linklater - Tour Bus Driver
*David Letterman - Mötley Crüe Roadie #1 - a.k.a. Butt-Head's Dad (credited as Earl Hofert)
*Tony Darling - Mötley Crüe Roadie #2 - a.k.a Beavis's Dad

Deleted scene

When "Beavis and Butt-Head Do America" premiered on MTV on August 7, 1999, an additional cut scene followed the movie. While visiting the National Archives, Beavis attempts to defecate but cannot due to the absence of toilet paper in the stall. Butt-Head is equally angry because the urinals lack automatic flushing mechanisms that had amazed him in Yellowstone National Park. After the rest of their tour group finished looking at the encased Declaration of Independence, Beavis sneaks out, breaks the glass and snatches it to use as "T.P. for his bunghole." While Archive guards rush to investigate, Beavis exits the stall with a piece of the Declaration, containing John Hancock's signature, stuck to his shoe. The scene does not appear on the recently released DVD, although it is mentioned on the disc's commentary track. In the track, Judge noted that the scene did not test well.Fact|date=June 2007

oundtrack

Infobox Album
Name = Beavis and Butt-Head Do America: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Type = Soundtrack
Artist = Various Artists


Released = November 5, 1996
Recorded = 1978-1996
Genre = Heavy metal, alternative rock, ska punk
Length = 49:00
Label = Geffen
Producer =
Reviews = * Allmusic Rating|2|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:2g57gjvro6ix link]
Last album =
This album =
Next album =

# "Two Cool Guys" - Isaac Hayes - 3:06
# "Love Rollercoaster" - Red Hot Chili Peppers - 4:37
# "Ain't Nobody" - LL Cool J - 4:38
# "Ratfinks, Suicide Tanks and Cannibal Girls" - White Zombie - 3:53
# "I Wanna Riot" - Rancid with Stubborn All-Stars - 3:59
# "Walk on Water " - Ozzy Osbourne - 4:18 *
# "Snakes" - No Doubt - 4:34
# "Pimp'n Ain't EZ" - Madd Head - 4:21
# "The Lord Is a Monkey" (Rock Version) - Butthole Surfers - 4:44
# "White Trash" - Southern Culture on the Skids - 2:03
# "Gone Shootin'" - AC/DC - 5:05
# "Lesbian Seagull" - Engelbert Humperdinck - 3:39

Noticeably missing are Mucha Muchacha, the version of Lesbian Seagull with Mr. Van Driessen singing, and the score tracks, which were released on a separate album.

"Two Cool Guys", written and performed by soul and funk icon Isaac Hayes, is a semi-parody of Hayes' Academy Award-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 version of Ozzy Osbourne's Walk on Water is not the same version included in the film. The film actually used an earlier demo version, while the soundtrack itself contains a later, more revised and complete version. The original demo, which appears in the film, can be found on Osbourne's "Prince of Darkness" box set.

Awards and nominations

BMI Film & TV Awards

One award:

* BMI Film Music Award for John Frizzel

Beavis and Butt-Head Do America was also nominated for a couple of Razzies, making it the 3rd animated film to be nominated for the award. Unlike Thumbelina (1994 film) and The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996 film) Beavis and Butt-Head Do America is not a family feature.

DVD release

The movie was released on DVD from Paramount Home Entertainment in 1999. It contained no french lanugage tracks or subtitles, only English language tracks and subtitles. The bonus features on the disc were a widescreen presentation, and two theatrical trailers.

The movie was re-released on a Special Edition DVD in 2006 as "The Edition That Doesn't Suck." It contained more in the way of bonus features such as audio commentaries, Spanish language tracks, more theatrical trailers, "Making of" documentaries, and more. However, even the special edition still lacks the deleted National Archives scene.

MTV Movie Awards 1997

One nomination:

* Best On-Screen Duo: Beavis & Butt-Head

External links

* " [http://www.bcdb.com/bcdb/cartoon.cgi?film=23613&cartoon=Beavis%20and%20Butt-head%20Do%20America Beavis And Butt-head Do America] " at the Big Cartoon DataBase
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