Written by Judge and Lew Morton, Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe begins in 1998 with the boys misbehaving at the Highland High School Science Fair, where they’re unable to decide if their current experiment - Butt-Head attempting to see how many times he can kick Beavis in the balls before Beavis passes out - counts as “scientific.” When chaos and, inevitably, fire ensue, Beavis and Butt-Head are hauled in front of a judge who sentences them to a summer at NASA Space Camp. But in proving that Beavis and Butt-Head absolutely have a place in the contemporary world, it suggests that there’s a limit to how deeply we probably want to interrogate that place. It’s frequently funny and occasionally savage in its commentary on the changed terrain. That doesn’t mean Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe isn’t funny. Thanks to the less-than-benign passage of time, Beavis and Butt-Head have gone from confrontational, anti-social spuds raised on heavy metal and the distant promise of sexuality to non-threatening relics. Paramount Owner National Amusements Takes $125M Strategic InvestmentĪlthough the entire purpose of the 86-minute Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe is to situate the characters in a modern context, maybe you’ll be able to watch the new movie without dwelling, in the thankfully-rare slow moments, on how the actual Beavises and Butt-Heads of 2022 would behave - where they’d congregate and what outlets they would find for their disaffection.
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