Wolff rating: NOT BAD
Plot summary: Pointy-headed idiots lose their TV and go on a cross-country quest for sex. Or TV.
Biased, pithy comments: So it's a Beavis and Butthead movie. Yup. That's what you need to say, really, but in the interests of profundity I'll make up some more. Mike Judge's two morons are quite moronic and the world conspires by sheer chance to let them survive without being deported, which is strangely the point of this film. Beavis and Butt-head are clearly the products of our stupefying, irresponsible culture, but that message can (more often than not) get lost in the dick jokes. Stack (``Unsolved Mysteries'') is the most self-important of the inflated windbags anyone over 40 becomes in this film, while Moore and Willis are solid as two gun-runners using Beavis and Butthead as cover. The movie homages and parodies are what really make the film, along with some (to those of us who were once 10-year-old boys) amusing sexual innuendo and moron jokes. Is it great art? No. Will it, with its brutal humor and strange hijinks, silence critics of this lowest-common-denominator milieu? No. Will it become a cult classic? Maybe, though it doesn't explore enough material outside of the TV show to really warrant that. No, it's just B-and-B for two hours without a really long video. I did like the renderings of famous vistas of the American west.
Other Notes: Good soundtrack, and the opening credits, even if you don't stay for the rest of the movie, are good.
How many times I have seen it: x1
Starring: Mike Judge, Robert Stack, Cloris Leachman, Eric Bogosian, Bruce Willis, Demi Moore.
Directed by: Mike Judge and Yvette Kaplan