One Small Step For A Moron: ‘Beavis and Butt-Head Do The Universe” Sends The Boys Where No Dork Has Gone Before
“The Earth sucks.” – Beavis.
No argument here, but Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe might make it suck a little less. MTV Entertainment Studios released a trailer for the movie, which will stream on Paramount Plus on June 23rd.
The movie is a sequel to the 1996 hit Beavis and Butt-Head Do America and will be the first time the gruesome twosome have appeared on any screen since 2011. MTV says the film “promises to sit atop all future lists of the Dumbest Science Fiction Movies Ever Made,” and if that’s not a reason to sign up for a Paramount Plus trial period, nothing is.
The movie starts with the duo being sent to Space Camp in 1998, as part of “creative sentencing” from a juvenile court judge. They are asked to join a Space Shuttle mission (!) after demonstrating dexterity with a docking simulator, but unsurprisingly, things go wrong. NASA leaves them for dead, after which they go through a black hole, only to reemerge on Earth circa 2022. They run afoul of the NSA, the governor of Texas, and highly intelligent versions of themselves from a parallel universe, and even almost lose their virginity.
Beavis and Butt-Head creator Mike Judge returns to voice his loveable losers, and he’s joined by Gary Cole (NCIS), Chris Diamantopoulos (Made for Love), Nat Faxon (Our Flag Means Death), Brian Huskey (Bob’s Burgers), Chi McBride (Hawaii Five-0), Tig Notaro (Star Trek: Discovery), Stephen Root (Barry), Andrea Savage (I’m Sorry), Martin Starr (Silicon Valley) and Jimmy O. Yang (Space Force).
Beavis and Butt-Head the series originally aired on MTV from 1993-97, then came back for an eighth season on the network in 2011. In July of 2020, Comedy Central ordered two seasons of a “reimagined” Beavis and Butt-Head series (with Judge at the helm) but that project got shifted to Paramount+. It should premiere on the streamer later this year.