It was 1996 when Mike Judge’s animated dunderheads had their first movie, Beavis and Butt-head Do America. Thanks to the wonders of content-starved streaming services, 26 years later, we’ve gotten their next movie adventure, Beavis and Butt-head Do the Universe. They remain hilarious.
The film picks up in the late 1990s with our two heroes, Beavis and Butt-bead (both voiced by Judge) messing up a science fair and winding up in court. A sympathetic judge sentences them to space camp; this sets things in motion toward a trip on the space shuttle, an eventual encounter with a black hole, and time travel to 2022.
In 2022, the boys basically do what they did in 1998: They try to score, and they mock all that they encounter. They also converse with super-intelligent multiverse versions of themselves—and, yes, Cornholio returns in search of TP for his bunghole during a brief jail stay. The movie doesn’t really break any real ground, but we don’t need it to: We just want to hear these two boneheads snickering.
It’s good to have the boys back on the big screen. They did have a TV-series-reviving eighth season back in 2011, but even 11 years without Beavis and Butt-head is too much.
In addition to the new movie, a new season of the show is supposedly coming later this year, and the classic episodes have been remastered for Paramount+.
Beavis and Butt-head Do the Universe is now streaming on Paramount+.
