Beavis and Butt-head Do America

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Beavis and Butt-Head: Do America
Promotional Poster For Beavis and Butt-Head Do America
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
Studio	Geffen Pictures MTV Films
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date(s)	December 20, 1996
Running time	81 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$12 million
Gross revenue	$63.11 million

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. The film grossed $20.11 million in its opening weekend, and grossed a total of $63.11 million in North America. This is MTV Films' second film.

Plot

After a surreal dream, Beavis wakes Butt-Head to the fact that someone has stolen their television. The pair then embark on a quest to replace it. After stealing and destroying a TV from school (resulting in their expulsion) and breaking the TV in Tom Anderson's camper, they then visit a low-quality motel that advertises "TVs in every room." At the motel, they encounter the drunken Muddy Grimes (voiced by Bruce Willis) who is waiting for two hired hit men, 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 has 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. Beavis asks if they can watch TV first, which Muddy subsequently shoots. He drives them to DFW airport to catch the plane to her hotel room on the Las Vegas Strip. During the plane ride, both Beavis and Butt-Head manage to cause chaos and Beavis consumes massive quantities of caffeine pills given to him by an old lady. He subsequently transforms into Cornholio, and nearly causes the plane to crash when be barges into the cockpit and scares the pilot and co-pilot.

After causing a mild stir in a Las Vegas casino, the boys find themselves in their hotel room, which is adjacent to the room of the hunted woman, Dallas Grimes (voiced by Demi Moore). Dallas soon 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 Capitol of the United States and will let them "do her" there.

The stolen biological weapon attracts the attention of the ATF, headed by Agent Flemming (voiced by Robert Stack) who orders a cavity search on everyone he encounters. Agent Fleming becomes convinced the pair are criminal masterminds after they accidentally damage the Hoover Dam, effectively cutting the power to Las Vegas. On the tour bus, they visit landmarks including the Grand Canyon and Yellowstone National Park. After becoming stranded in Petrified Forest National Park, they wander through the desert and meet two men who strongly resemble them. The men tell them that they once hooked up with two "sluts" from the boys' hometown of Highland. They also share similar personalities, as evidenced by Beavis' father's fascination with fire, and Butt-head's father's pulling down his pants and farting in the fire, creating a large fireball. The boys then continue to survive the desert, and, after munching on a cactus, Beavis goes into a hallucination, featuring music by White Zombie with animation inspired by Rob Zombie. The next day they are found by Muddy Grimes, after nearly dying of dehydration. Muddy decides to take them the rest of the way in his car trunk to hunt down Dallas, and they spend the trip laughing at his car jack. In the middle of I-81 in Virginia, Butt-Head jacks the trunk open, and they escape by jumping onto the road, causing an eighteen wheeler to swerve off the road, resulting in a huge, 400-car pileup. Beavis and Butt-head casually past the scene and get back on the tour bus, stopping at the United States Capitol Building before finally reaching 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 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 "in some kid's pants."

The ATF is dispatched to the White House due to Beavis and Butt-Head being there on the same day as the "Give Peace A Chance" conference. Beavis consumes caffeine pills, sugar and coffee while on the White House tour, then transforms into Cornholio again. He wanders around the White House and picks up the red phone in the Oval Office, causing the Army to go to DEFCON 4. Meanwhile, Butt-Head also wanders around the White House and encounters Chelsea Clinton in her bedroom, making a pass at her. She promptly throws him out the window, where ATF enforcers detain him and perform a cavity search on him. Beavis leaves the White House and looks at the photo of Dallas before going to masturbate in Anderson's camper. Anderson discovers Beavis and throws him out of the camper, and the ATF spots Beavis walking around pants-less. They believe he has the weapon on him and are just about to fire when Mr. Anderson opens his camper door, telling Beavis to take his pants with him, which causes the ATF to go after the pants. The pants are ripped open, with the weapon flying out of them. The weapon, landing safely on Butt-Head's hand, is recovered. Blame for the incident is ultimately pinned on Mr. Anderson, who is arrested and placed in the same van as Dallas and Muddy. President Bill Clinton then makes Beavis and Butt-head honorary ATF agents. Afterwards, they return to Highland and find their TV in front of the hotel. 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 tool shed.

Backmasking

During the desert scene when Beavis and Butt-Head have their hallucination, backmasking occurs in which Beavis says "I suggest that everyone go to college and study hard."^[1]

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

Deleted scene

When Beavis and Butt-Head Do America premiered on MTV on August 7, 1999, an additional cut scene followed the movie. While visiting the National Archives, Beavis attempts to take a dump but cannot due to the absence of toilet paper in the stall. Butt-Head is equally angry because the urinals lack the automatic flushing mechanisms that had amazed him in Yellowstone National Park. After the rest of their tour group finished looking at the encased Declaration of Independence, Beavis sneaks out, breaks the glass with the US flagpole and steals it to use as "T.P. for his bunghole." While Archive guards rush to investigate, Beavis cleans up, and 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]}

Another alternate scene was done for when Butt-Head meets Chelsea Clinton in her bedroom, which showed her packing up to leave the White House. This alternate scene was made in the event Bill Clinton lost his 1996 re-election bid to Bob Dole.

Soundtrack

1. "Two Cool Guys" - Isaac Hayes - 3:06
2. "Love Rollercoaster" - Red Hot Chili Peppers - 4:37
3. "Ain't Nobody" - LL Cool J - 4:38
4. "Ratfinks, Suicide Tanks and Cannibal Girls" - White Zombie - 3:53
5. "I Wanna Riot" - Rancid with Stubborn All-Stars - 3:59
6. "Walk on Water " - Ozzy Osbourne - 4:18 *
7. "Snakes" - No Doubt - 4:34
8. "Pimp'n Ain't EZ" - Madd Head - 4:21
9. "The Lord Is a Monkey" (Rock Version) - Butthole Surfers - 4:44
10. "White Trash" - Southern Culture on the Skids - 2:03
11. "Gone Shootin'" - AC/DC - 5:05
12. "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. "Walk on Water" was released as a single and peaked at number 28 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Tracks.^[2]

Rating

The movie was rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for continuous crude sex-related humor and language, and for a drug-related scene. The Movie would have been rated R, due to the scene where the principal is getting spanked in the motel room. He was originally naked waist down, but they censored it by adding red-hearted boxer shorts.

Awards and nominations

BMI Film & TV Awards

One award:

• BMI Film Music Award for John Frizzell

MTV Movie Awards 1997

One nomination:

• Best On-Screen Duo: Beavis & Butt-Head

Golden Raspberry Awards

Two nominations:

• Worst New Star — Beavis and Butt-Head
• Worst Screen Couple — Beavis and Butt-Head

DVD release

The movie was released on DVD by Paramount Home Entertainment in 1999. 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. However, even the special edition still lacks the deleted National Archives scene.

References

External links

• Beavis And Butt-head Do America at the Big Cartoon DataBase
• Beavis And Butt-head Do America at the Internet Movie Database
• Beavis and Butt-Head Do America at Allmovie