![]() Your favorite Gen X’ers have somehow made it to space, and like, find a black hole or something. ![]() Beavis and Butthead Do The Universe is like, I don’t know, a spiritual successor to Beavis and Butthead Do America. ![]() It’s like pretty cool if you’re not a buttmunch about it. Uhhhh hey baby, there’s like, a new Beavis and Butthead movie streaming on Paramount Plus. Subscribe: RSS BEAVIS AND BUTTHEAD DO THE UNIVERSE MOVIE REVIEW As in the first movie, they’re on a quest to lose their virginities (or, in the parlance of their times, to “score”), which, as before, various government officials mistake for something far more nefarious.Podcast (theatrical-movie-review-podcast): Play in new window | Download Eventually, this leads to them getting sucked into a black hole, and popping out in 2022. The movie picks up in 1998, shortly after their show’s 1997 end: When Beavis and Butt-Head (both voiced, as ever, by creator Mike Judge) are sent to space camp in an attempt to rehabilitate their general delinquency, they are improbably recruited for a real mission. Like a lot of the classic Beavis shorts, it’s all predicated on a misunderstanding - a steadfast and mistaken belief that these two eternally snickering, muttering, horny teenage boys must be concealing hidden depths. In between the sci-fi embellishments, the movie has set pieces in such exotic, far-flung locales as a porta-potty and a motel room. Like The Simpsons in its fifth season, it does indeed send its dull-witted protagonists into space - and, unlike The Simpsons (as far as I know I’m not current on the last few seasons), it also gives them multi-versal doppelgangers, smarter versions of the boys who urge them to do their part to save the universe. ![]()
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