Beavis and Butt-Head Do America
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| Beavis and Butt-Head Do America | |
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| Directed by | Mike Judge, Yvette Kaplan (animation) |
| Produced by | Abby Turkuhle |
| Written by | Mike Judge, Joe Stillman |
| Starring | Mike Judge Bruce Willis Demi Moore Robert Stack Cloris Leachman Greg Kinnear (uncredited) David Letterman (credited as Earl Hofert) |
| Music by | John Frizzel |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures MTV Films |
| Release date(s) | December 20, 1996 |
| Running time | 81 minutes |
| Country |  United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $12,000,000 |
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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. It opened at over $20 million and finished off with $63+ million at the box office.
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[edit] Plot
The film opens with Butt-Head dreaming about himself and Beavis as giants attacking the city. 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, and after further adventures finally 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 had 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. He drives them to the LAX airport to catch the plane to her hotel room on the Las Vegas Strip.
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 capital 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. Meanwhile the ATF starts looking for them, desperate to get the weapon back before it goes off and kills thousands. They are apprehended by Muddy Grimes, but escape 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.
The weapon is recovered with Beavis and Butthead 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.
[edit] 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
[edit] Deleted scene
When Beavis and Butt-Head Do America premiered on MTV on August 7, 1997, 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 a previous scene in the movie. 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.[citation needed]
[edit] Soundtrack
| Beavis and Butt-Head Do America: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | ||
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| Soundtrack by Various Artists | ||
| Released | November 5, 1996 | |
| Recorded | 1978-1996 | |
| Genre | Heavy metal, Alternative rock, Ska punk | |
| Length | 49:00 | |
| Label | Geffen | |
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- "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.
[edit] Awards and nominations
[edit] BMI Film & TV Awards
One award:
- BMI Film Music Award for John Frizzel
[edit] 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. The front cover was the same as the original 1999 DVD cover, only the border is white and doesn't have the title on the front.
[edit] MTV Movie Awards 1997
One nomination:
- Best On-Screen Duo: Beavis & Butt-Head
[edit] External links
- Beavis And Butt-head Do America at the Big Cartoon DataBase
- Beavis And Butt-head Do America at the Internet Movie Database
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