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{{short description|1996 film by Mike Judge}}
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{{Infobox film
| name           = Beavis and Butt-Head Do America
| image          = Beavis And Butthead Do America.jpg
| alt            = At the forefront of the poster are the two title characters – Beavis on the left, Butt-Head on the right – who are also shown riding motorcycles at the lower area.
| caption        = Theatrical release poster
| director       = [[Mike Judge]]
| producer       = Abby Terkuhle
| writer         = {{Plainlist|
* Mike Judge
* [[Joe Stillman]]
}}
| based_on       = {{Based on|''[[Beavis and Butt-Head]]''|Mike Judge}}
| starring       = {{Plainlist|
* Mike Judge
* [[Demi Moore]]
* [[Bruce Willis]]
* [[Robert Stack]]
* [[Cloris Leachman]]
}}
| music          = [[John Frizzell (composer)|John Frizzell]]
| editing        = {{Plainlist|
* Gunter Glinka
* Terry Kelley
* Neil Lawrence
}}
| color_process  = [[Deluxe Media|Deluxe Entertainment Services]]
| studio         = {{Plainlist|
* [[MTV Entertainment Studios|MTV Productions]]<ref name=afi>{{cite web|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Film/59989-BEAVIS-ANDBUTT-HEADDOAMERICA?sid=5593bdb3-7795-42b1-9261-5e4aee61c9de&sr=0.7080989&cp=1&pos=0|title=Beavis and Butt-Head Do America|work=[[American Film Institute]]|access-date=November 15, 2019}}</ref>
* [[The Geffen Film Company|Geffen Pictures]]<ref name=afi/>
}}
| distributor    = [[Paramount Pictures]]
| released       = {{Film date|1996|12|15|[[Grauman's Chinese Theatre|Mann's Chinese Theater]]|1996|12|20|United States}}
| runtime        = 81 minutes<!-- US theatrical runtime: 80:57 --><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbfc.co.uk/EVF066576 |title= Beavis and Butt-Head Do America |website=[[British Board of Film Classification]] |date=January 13, 1997 |access-date=July 8, 2011}}</ref>
| country        = United States
| language       = English
| budget         = $12&nbsp;million<ref name="Budget"/>
| gross          = $63.1&nbsp;million<ref name="mojo">{{cite web | title=Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (1996 film) | website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl88376833/weekend/ | access-date=December 11, 2015}}</ref>
}}
'''''Beavis and Butt-Head Do America''''' is a 1996 American [[adult animation|adult animated]] [[comedy film|comedy]] [[road movie|road film]]<!-- Please seek consensus at the talk page before changing/adding genres --> based on the [[MTV]] animated television series ''[[Beavis and Butt-Head]]''.<ref>{{cite news|title= Road Trip the Right Vehicle for Beavis and Butt-head|work= The Los Angeles Times|date=December 20, 1996|url= https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-12-20-ca-10832-story.html|access-date=November 8, 2010|first=Kevin|last=Thomas}}</ref> The film was co-written and directed by series creator [[Mike Judge]], who also reprises his roles from the series; [[Demi Moore]], [[Bruce Willis]], [[Robert Stack]] and [[Cloris Leachman]] star in supporting roles. The film follows [[Beavis]] and [[Butt-Head]], two teen slackers who travel the US and unknowingly become fugitives.

Previous offers by MTV to adapt ''Beavis and Butt-Head'' to film were rejected by Judge, before he eventually agreed to the film in 1994. As production began, the series' staff halted production while Judge wrote the screenplay with [[Joe Stillman]]. [[John Frizzell (composer)|John Frizzell]] composed the film's score.

''Beavis and Butt-Head Do America'' premiered at [[Grauman's Chinese Theatre|Mann's Chinese Theater]] on December 15, 1996, and was released in the United States on December 20, 1996, by [[Paramount Pictures]]. The film later aired on [[MTV]] in 1999. It also aired on [[VH1]] in 2003. The film was a critical and commercial success, grossing $63.1&nbsp;million in the United States and becoming the largest December box office opening of all time until it was surpassed the following year by ''[[Scream 2]]'', and was the [[List of animated feature films of 1996|second highest-grossing animated film of 1996]], behind [[The Walt Disney Company|Disney]]'s ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996 film)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]''. A sequel, ''[[Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe]]'', was released in 2022.

== Plot ==
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[[Beavis]] and [[Butt-Head]] discover that their television has been stolen and set out to find it. After several failed attempts to obtain one, they come across a motel which offers one in every room. They meet Muddy Grimes, who mistakes them for hired hitmen and offers them $10,000 to "do" his wife Dallas in [[Las Vegas]]. Thinking he wants them to have sex with her, Butt-Head convinces Beavis that they can finally "score" and buy a new TV.

Muddy drives the boys to the airport. In Las Vegas, Beavis and Butt-Head arrive at their hotel room, but Dallas catches them eavesdropping and holds them at gunpoint. The boys refuse Dallas' offer of $20,000 to "do" Muddy and argue over who will "do" Dallas first. Realizing that Beavis and Butt-Head have misunderstood their instructions, she plants the X-5 unit, a stolen [[biological weapon]], in Beavis' shorts. She tells them to meet her at the [[U.S. Capitol]].

Beavis and Butt-Head board a tour bus. After they accidentally sabotage [[Hoover Dam]], Agent Flemming of the [[Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms|ATF]] becomes convinced that the duo are criminal masterminds and places them on the [[FBI's Most Wanted List|FBI's most-wanted list]]. At [[Yellowstone National Park]], Beavis and Butt-Head accidentally board a bus full of nuns who are repulsed by the boys and abandon them in [[Petrified Forest National Park]]. After walking through the desert, the boys meet two former [[Mötley Crüe]] [[Road crew|roadies]], oblivious that they are their biological fathers.

Muddy returns to the motel, meets the real hitmen, and angrily swears to track down and kill Beavis, Butt-Head and Dallas. The hitmen, who stole Beavis and Butt-Head's TV, abandon it in front of the motel. Beavis and Butt-Head awaken to find the drifters gone and continue walking until they become dehydrated and weak, they start to see [[Life review|their lives flash before their eyes]], with Butthead reminiscing on him and Beavis growing up together while Beavis sees himself as a [[Sperm|sperm cell]] going inside an [[ovum]]. While suffering dehydration, Beavis takes a bite out of a [[peyote|peyote cactus]], causing him to have hallucinations of himself and Butt-Head being in a heavy-metal type music video.

Muddy finds Beavis and Butt-Head. After learning that Dallas intends to meet them, he puts them in his trunk and drives on. In [[Virginia]], they jump out onto the interstate and cause a 400-car [[Multiple-vehicle collision|pileup]]. They walk past the scene and board their original tour bus, stopping at the Capitol before reaching the [[White House]]. Muddy confronts Dallas in a parking garage before she can meet Beavis and Butt-Head. She seduces him and they have sex in his car, but they are found and arrested by the ATF.

The ATF is dispatched to the White House because Beavis and Butt-Head are there on the same day as a peace conference. Beavis consumes caffeine and sugar and transforms into [[Cornholio]], his hyperactive alter ego. Wandering into the [[Oval Office]], he picks up the [[Moscow–Washington hotline|red phone]], causing a military alert. Butt-Head attempts to seduce [[Chelsea Clinton]], but is thrown out of her bedroom window. He is detained and cavity-searched by ATF officers.

Beavis goes to their neighbor Tom Anderson's travel trailer, where Anderson catches him masturbating and throws him out. The ATF, thinking Beavis has the bioweapon, are about to open fire when Anderson throws out Beavis' shorts. The shorts are ripped and the bioweapon flies into Butt-Head's hand and he casually gives it to Flemming. Anderson is falsely accused of trying to frame Beavis and Butt-Head for a crime of his own, and is arrested along with Dallas and Muddy while his wife is taken for a cavity search. Flemming proclaims Beavis and Butt-Head heroes, and they meet President [[Bill Clinton]], who makes them honorary ATF agents. Beavis and Butt-Head return to Highland, upset that they did not have sex or receive money, but they find their TV at the motel, and walk into the sunset carrying it and insulting each other until Beavis suggests going into Anderson's tool shed to masturbate.

== Voice cast ==
{| style="float:right"
|- style="vertical-align:top"
|[[File:Demi Moore 2010 Time 100 Shankbone.jpg|thumb|upright|none|Demi Moore voices Dallas Grimes]]
|[[File:Bruce Willis by Gage Skidmore.jpg|thumb|upright|none|Bruce Willis voices Muddy Grimes]]
|[[File:Mike Judge by Gage Skidmore.jpg|thumb|upright|none|Mike Judge, the voice of Beavis and Butt-head for TV, returned to work on the film]]
|}
<!-- main cast only -->
* [[Mike Judge]] as [[Beavis]], [[Butt-Head]], [[List of Beavis and Butt-Head characters#Tom Anderson|Tom Anderson]], [[List of Beavis and Butt-Head characters#Mr. Van Driessen|Mr. Van Driessen]], and [[List of Beavis and Butt-Head characters#Highland High faculty and staff|Principal McVicker]]
* [[Bruce Willis]] as Muddy Grimes
* [[Demi Moore]] as Dallas Grimes
* [[Cloris Leachman]] as Martha the Old Woman
* [[Robert Stack]] as Agent Flemming

[[Greg Kinnear]] has an uncredited role as ATF Agent Bork;<ref name="cinemablend">{{Cite web|url=https://www.cinemablend.com/dvds/Beavis-Butthead-Do-America-Special-Collector-Edition-1817.html|title = Beavis and Butthead do America: Special Collector's Edition|date = May 27, 2016 |website=Cinema Blend}}</ref> [[David Letterman]] (credited as Earl Hofert) had a role as a [[Mötley Crüe]] [[roadie]].<ref name="ifc">{{cite web |last=McKinney |first=Luke |title=15 Things You Might Not Know About Beavis and Butt-Head |website=[[IFC (American TV channel)|IFC]] |url=https://www.ifc.com/2016/01/15-things-you-might-not-know-about-beavis-and-butt-head |date=January 12, 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160114202223/http://www.ifc.com/2016/01/15-things-you-might-not-know-about-beavis-and-butt-head |archive-date=January 14, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Nadel |first=Nick |date=August 15, 2014 |title=The Greatest 'Celebrity Cameos' In The History Of 'Beavis And Butt-Head' |url=https://www.mtv.com/news/ugpgff/celebrity-cameos-beavis-and-butt-head |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20230111030639/https://www.mtv.com/news/ugpgff/celebrity-cameos-beavis-and-butt-head |archive-date=2023-01-11 |access-date=2023-01-11 |website=MTV |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Harris |first=Will |date=August 26, 2022 |title=Mike Judge Interview: David Letterman Should Come Back To 'Beavis And Butt-Head' |url=https://decider.com/2022/08/26/mike-judge-interview-beavis-and-butthead/ |website=Decider |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20230111031018/https://decider.com/2022/08/26/mike-judge-interview-beavis-and-butthead/ |archive-date=2023-01-11 |access-date=2023-01-11 |language=en-US}}</ref>

== Production ==
Development began in 1993 as part of a production deal with [[MTV]], [[David Geffen]], and [[Warner Bros.]] Geffen so believed in the potential of the ''Beavis and Butt-head'' TV series that he suggested creating a film and record album based on the program. They originally conceived it in live action, with ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' regulars [[David Spade]] and [[Adam Sandler]] in mind to play the title characters. After MTV's parent company [[Viacom (1952–2006)|Viacom]] acquired [[Paramount Pictures]]'s parent company [[Paramount Communications]] on July 7, 1994, the studio became a partner in the film, replacing Warner's interest in the project and dropping the live action concept under pressure from series creator [[Mike Judge]].<ref>{{cite news |title=The Geffen Camp Heh-Hehs All the Way to the Bank |date=January 17, 1997 |work=The Los Angeles Times |first=Claudia |last=Eller |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-01-17-fi-19392-story.html}}</ref> Judge has stated production of the animated film was very ad hoc and had some difficulties with progressing due to most of the staff's television background. The animation of the film was provided by [[Rough Draft Studios|Rough Draft Korea]]. The hallucination sequence's design and animation was based on the works of [[Rob Zombie]]. The sequence's director was [[Chris Prynoski]]. <!-- This information is taken from the 2006 DVD release's end credits. -->

=== Deleted scene ===
When the film premiered on MTV on August 7, 1999, an additional [[deleted scene]] followed the airing: while visiting the [[National Archives and Records Administration|National Archives]], Beavis attempts to use the restroom, but cannot because of the lack of toilet paper in the stall. Coincidentally, Butt-head is angry because the urinals lack the automatic flushing mechanisms that had amazed him at [[Yellowstone National Park]]. After the rest of their tour group finishes looking at the encased [[United States Declaration of Independence|Declaration of Independence]], Beavis sneaks out, breaks the glass with the U.S. flag pole, and steals it to use as "T.P. for his bunghole." While Archive guards rush to see what happened, 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 DVD, although it is mentioned on the commentary track. In the track, Judge noted that the scene did not [[test screening|test]] well.

A deleted scene showing [[Chelsea Clinton]] packing up to leave the White House was also shot as an alternative to the scene in the film depicting Butt-Head meeting Chelsea in her bedroom, in the event that [[Bill Clinton]] should lose his [[1996 United States presidential election|1996 reelection bid]] to [[Bob Dole]]; however, by the spring of 1996, Judge chose to keep the original scene, feeling confident that Clinton would win his reelection bid against Dole{{tsp}}{{mdash}}{{tsp}}which he ultimately did that November.

== Soundtrack ==
{{Infobox album
| name         = Beavis and Butt-Head Do America: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
| type         = Soundtrack
| artist       = various artists
| cover        = File:Beavis_and_Butt-head_Do_America_Soundtrack_-_Cover.png
| caption      = 
| border       = yes
| alt          = 
| released     = November 5, 1996
| recorded     = 1995–96
| studio       = 
| genre        = {{hlist|[[Heavy metal music|Heavy metal]]|[[alternative rock]]|[[punk rock]]|[[Hip hop music|hip hop]]}}
| length       = {{duration|m=49|s=00}}
| label        = [[Geffen Records|Geffen]]
| producer     = {{hlist|[[Mike Judge]] <small>([[Executive producer|exec.]])</small>|[[Butthole Surfers]]|[[Isaac Hayes]]|[[Silkski|Jerome Evans]]|[[John Frizzell (composer)|John Frizzell]]|[[Lars Frederiksen]]|Mark Williams|[[Moby]]|[[No Doubt]]|[[Rashad Smith (producer)|Rashad Smith]]|[[Red Hot Chili Peppers]]|[[Southern Culture on the Skids]]|[[Sylvia Massy]]|[[Terry Date]]|[[Tim Armstrong]]|[[Ulrich Wild]]|[[Vanda & Young]]|[[White Zombie (band)|White Zombie]]}}
| chronology   = ''[[Beavis and Butt-Head]]''
| prev_title   = [[The Beavis and Butt-Head Experience]]
| prev_year    = 1993
| next_title   = 
| next_year    = 
| misc         = {{Singles
 | name        = Beavis and Butt-Head Do America: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
 | type        = soundtrack
 | single1     = Lesbian Seagull
 | single1date = 1996
 | single2     = [[Love Rollercoaster#Red Hot Chili Peppers version|Love Rollercoaster]]
 | single2date = November 1996
 | single3     = [[Ain't Nobody#LL Cool J remix|Ain't Nobody]]
 | single3date = November 26, 1996
 | single4     = Walk On Water
 | single4date = 1996
}}
}}

{{Music ratings
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1Score = {{Rating|2|5}} [{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r241210|pure_url=yes}} link]
| rev2 = ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]''
| rev2Score = C [https://archive.today/20130409091333/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,294925_2,00.html link]
}}
{{track listing
| headline = ''Beavis and Butt-Head Do America: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack''<ref name="soundtrack liner notes">{{cite AV media notes|title= Beavis and Butt-Head Do America: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack |year= 1996 |type= booklet |publisher= [[Geffen Records|Geffen]]}}</ref>
| extra_column    = Producer(s)

| title1           = Two Cool Guys (Theme from Beavis and Butt-Head Do America)
| note1            = [[Isaac Hayes]]
| writer1          = {{hlist|Hayes|[[Mike Judge]]}}
| extra1           = {{hlist|Hayes|Ron Christopher {{small|(co.)}}|Mike Judge {{small|(co.)}}|Mark Kates {{small|(co.)}}}}
| length1          = 3:06

| title2           = [[Love Rollercoaster#Red Hot Chili Peppers version|Love Rollercoaster]]
| note2            = [[Red Hot Chili Peppers]]
| writer2          = {{hlist|[[Ohio Players|James Williams]]|[[Ohio Players|Clarence Satchell]]|[[Leroy "Sugarfoot" Bonner|Leroy Bonner]]|[[Marshall "Rock" Jones|Marshall Jones]]|[[Ohio Players|Ralph Middlebrooks]]|[[Ohio Players|Marvin Pierce]]|[[Ohio Players|William Beck]]}}
| extra2           = {{hlist|[[Sylvia Massy]]|Red Hot Chili Peppers}}
| length2          = 4:37

| title3           = [[Ain't Nobody#LL Cool J remix|Ain't Nobody]]
| note3            = [[LL Cool J]]
| writer3          = {{hlist|[[Hawk Wolinski]]|[[LL Cool J|James Todd Smith]] {{small|(additional lyrics)}}}}
| extra3           = [[Rashad Smith (producer)|Rashad Smith]]
| length3          = 4:37

| title4           = Ratfinks, Suicide Tanks and Cannibal Girls
| note4            = [[White Zombie (band)|White Zombie]]
| writer4          = {{hlist|[[Rob Zombie]]|[[Jay Yuenger]]|[[Sean Yseult]]|[[John Tempesta]]|[[Charlie Clouser]]}}
| extra4           = {{hlist|[[Terry Date]]|[[Ulrich Wild]]|White Zombie}}
| length4          = 3:52

| title5           = I Wanna Riot
| note5            = [[Rancid (band)|Rancid]] with [[Stubborn All-Stars]]
| writer5          = {{hlist|[[Tim Armstrong]]|[[Matt Freeman]]|[[Lars Frederiksen]]}}
| extra5           = {{hlist|Tim Armstrong|Lars Frederiksen}}
| length5          = 3:59

| title6           = Walk on Water
| note6            = [[Ozzy Osbourne]]
| writer6          = {{hlist|Osborne|[[Jim Vallance]]}}
| extra6           = [[Moby]]
| length6          = 4:16

| title7           = Snakes
| note7            = [[No Doubt]]
| writer7          = {{hlist|[[Gwen Stefani]]|[[Tony Kanal]]}}
| extra7           = No Doubt
| length7          = 4:34

| title8           = Pimp'n Ain't EZ
| note8            = Madd Head
| writer8          = {{hlist|[[Jerry Lewis]]|Jakkell Brown|[[Silkski|Jerome Evans]]}}
| extra8           = Jerome Evans
| length8          = 4:21

| title9           = The Lord is a Monkey
| note9            = Rock Version) ([[Butthole Surfers]]
| writer9          = Butthole Surfers
| extra9           = [[Paul Leary]]
| length9          = 4:44

| title10          = White Trash
| note10           = [[Southern Culture on the Skids]]
| writer10         = [[Southern Culture on the Skids|Rick Miller]]
| extra10          = {{hlist|Mark Williams|Southern Culture on the Skids}}
| length10         = 2:02

| title11          = [[Powerage|Gone Shootin{{'-}}]]
| note11           = [[AC/DC]]
| writer11         = {{hlist|[[Malcolm Young]]|[[Angus Young]]|[[Bon Scott]]}}
| extra11          = [[Vanda & Young]]
| length11         = 5:04

| title12          = Lesbian Seagull
| note12           = [[Engelbert Humperdinck (singer)|Engelbert Humperdinck]]
| writer12         = Tom Wilson Weinberg
| extra12          = [[John Frizzell (composer)|John Frizzell]]
| length12         = 3:50
}}

Noticeably missing are "Mucha Muchacha", the version of "Lesbian Seagull" with Mr. Van Driessen singing, and the score tracks performed by The London Metropolitan Orchestra, which were released on a separate album.

"Two Cool Guys", written and performed by [[Soul music|soul]]/[[funk]] musician Isaac Hayes, is a semi-parody of Hayes' [[Academy Award]]-winning "[[Theme from Shaft|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 opening credit sequence which the song features is a take-off on popular 1970s cop movies and TV shows with Beavis and Butt-Head as hip ace sleuth Lothario detectives.<ref name="Young">{{cite web |date=2 July 2009 |author1=Alex Young |title=Cinema Sounds: Beavis & Butt-head Do America |url=https://consequence.net/2009/07/cinema-sounds-beavis-butt-head-do-america-original-motion-picture-soundtrack/ |website=Consequence of Sound }}</ref>

The version of Ozzy Osbourne's "Walk on Water" is not the same version included in the film. The film used an earlier demo version, while the soundtrack itself contains a later, revised version. The original demo, which appears in the film, can be found on Osbourne's ''Prince of Darkness'' box set. Osbourne and co-writer [[Jim Vallance]] both prefer the demo version heard in the film.<ref>{{cite web |title=Walk On Water |url=http://www.jimvallance.com/01-music-folder/songs-folder-may-27/pg-song-osbourne-ozzy-walk.html |website=JimVallance.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150414024542/http://www.jimvallance.com/01-music-folder/songs-folder-may-27/pg-song-osbourne-ozzy-walk.html |archive-date=2015-04-14}}</ref> "Walk on Water" was released as a single and peaked at number 28 on ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]''{{'}}s [[Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks|Mainstream Rock Tracks]] chart.<ref>{{cite web |title=''Billboard'' singles chart history-Ozzy Osbourne |url= https://www.billboard.com/artist/ozzy-osbourne/ |access-date=August 11, 2023 |website=[[Billboard Hot 100]]}}</ref>

The use of AC/DC's "Gone Shootin{{'"}} is particularly fitting for the series, as Judge himself would eventually admit the guitar solo that serves as the show's theme was in fact the solo from the AC/DC song played backwards.

The soundtrack was re-released in 2016 on a special edition LP picture disc.<ref>{{cite web |title=Beavis And Butt-Head Do America – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack |url=https://www.discogs.com/release/8537727-Various-Beavis-And-Butt-Head-Do-America-Original-Motion-Picture-Soundtrack |website=Discogs |access-date=April 4, 2022}}</ref>

===Certifications===
{{Certification Table Top}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=Canada|artist=Various Artists|title=Beavis and Butt-head Do America|award=Gold|type=album|relyear=1996|certyear=1997|access-date=April 28, 2022}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=United States|artist=Soundtrack|title=Beavis and Butthead Do America|award=Gold|type=album|relyear=1996|certyear=1997|access-date=April 28, 2022}}
{{Certification Table Bottom|nosales=true}}

== Reception ==
=== Box office ===
''Beavis and Butt-Head Do America'' opened at number 1 in North America on December 20, 1996, collecting $20.1&nbsp;million in its opening weekend.<ref>{{cite news |last=Elber |first=Lynn |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-south-bend-tribune-beavis-and-butt/134665474/ |title='Beavis and Butt-head' sets record
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231105161707/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-south-bend-tribune-beavis-and-butt/134665474/ |date=December 26, 1996 |access-date=November 5, 2023 |archive-date=November 5, 2023 |page=41 |work=AP Entertainment Writer |publisher=[[South Bend Tribune|The South Bend Tribune]] |via=[[Newspapers.com]] |url-status=live}} {{Open access}}</ref> Upon its release, it generated the highest December opening weekend, breaking the former record held by ''[[Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country]]''.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/st-cloud-times-hey-hey-hey-beavis-but/133726491/ |title=Hey-hey-hey, Beavis, Butthead No. 1 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231104165433/https://www.newspapers.com/article/st-cloud-times-hey-hey-hey-beavis-but/133726491/ |date=December 25, 1996 |access-date=November 4, 2023 |archive-date=November 4, 2023 |page=12 |publisher=[[St. Cloud Times]] |url-status=live}} {{Open access}}</ref> The film overall earned $63.1&nbsp;million at the US box office.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/1996W51/ |title=Weekend Box Office Results for December 20–22, 1996 |website=Box Office Mojo |date= |access-date=January 15, 2012}}</ref> It had a $12&nbsp;million production budget.<ref name="Budget">{{cite news|title= Beavis and Butt-head Make Creator and Paramount Proud |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=December 24, 1996|url= https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-12-24-ca-12081-story.html|access-date=November 8, 2010 |first=Elaine |last=Dutka}}</ref>

=== Critical reception ===
On [[Rotten Tomatoes]]  the film has approval rating of {{RT data|score}} based on {{RT data|count}} reviews and an average of {{RT data|average}}. The site's consensus reads: "''Beavis and Butt-Head Do America'' is unabashedly offensive, unapologetically stupid, and unexpectedly funny."<ref>{{cite Rotten Tomatoes |id=beavis_and_butt_head_do_america|title=Beavis and Butt-head Do America|type=m |access-date={{RT data|access date}}}}{{RT data|edit}}</ref> On [[Metacritic]], the film has a 64 out of 100 rating based on 16 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".<ref>{{cite Metacritic |id=beavis-and-butt-head-do-america | title=Beavis and Butt-head Do America | type=m | access-date=May 3, 2022}}</ref> Audiences polled by [[CinemaScore]] gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://ew.com/article/1997/01/17/critical-mass-37/ |title=Critical Mass |magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]] |date=January 17, 1997 |access-date=May 3, 2022}}</ref>

[[Roger Ebert]] of ''[[Chicago Sun-Times]]'' praised the film as a "vulgar" satire on American youth, and compared it favorably to ''[[Wayne's World (film)|Wayne's World]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/beavis-and-butt-head-do-america-1996 |first=Roger |last=Ebert |author-link=Roger Ebert |title=''Beavis and Butt-head Do America |date=December 20, 1996 |work=[[Chicago Sun-Times]] }}</ref> On the film review show ''[[Siskel and Ebert]]'', Ebert's reviewing partner [[Gene Siskel]] gave the film a "modest recommendation", having been taken with the two lead characters. Ebert and Siskel ultimately awarded it a "[[two thumbs up]]" rating.<ref>{{cite episode|url=https://siskelebert.org/?p=2452 |title=''Beavis and Butt-head Do America'' review |series=[[At the Movies (1982 TV program)|At the Movies]] |date=December 21, 1996 |season=11 |number=16 |network=Buena Vista Television |access-date=August 11, 2023}}</ref> Ty Burr writing for [[Entertainment Weekly]] gave it a C+ saying it "turns from spoofing teenage dimness to merely embodying it."<ref>{{cite magazine | url=https://ew.com/article/1997/06/20/beavis-and-butthead-do-america/ | title=Beavis and Butthead do America | magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]] }}</ref>
In a retrospective review in ''[[Jacobin (magazine)|Jacobin]]'' for the film's 25th anniversary, writer Leonard Pierce praised ''Beavis and Butt-Head Do America'' for its continued relevancy into the 21st century. Pierce described the film as "the greatest satire of the twenty-first-century American [[national security|security state]]," adding that "we wouldn't be talking about the film at all today if it wasn't still painfully funny, with a distinctly 2020s nervous energy and a rowdy, bubbling pace that never slows down." Pierce concluded that ''Beavis and Butt-Head Do America'' "seems far fresher today than anything [[Matt Stone]] and [[Trey Parker]] have done this century."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://jacobin.com/2021/12/beavis-and-butt-head-do-america-mike-judge-25-years |title=Beavis and Butt-Head Do America Stands the Test of Time |last=Pierce |first=Leonard |date=December 21, 2021 |website=[[Jacobin (magazine)|Jacobin]] |access-date=January 24, 2023}}</ref>

=== Accolades ===
{| class="wikitable"
! Organization !! Award || Awardee || Result || {{Ref heading}}
|-
| [[BMI Awards|BMI Film & TV Awards]] || BMI Film Music Award || [[John Frizzell (composer)|John Frizzell]] || {{won}} || {{citation needed|date=June 2016}}
|-
| [[1997 MTV Movie Awards]] || Best On-Screen Duo || rowspan=3 | [[Beavis and Butt-Head]] || {{nom}} ||<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mtv.com/ontv/movieawards/archive/year.jhtml?year=1997|title=1997 MTV Movie Awards|work=[[MTV.com]]|access-date=June 4, 2016|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20071216143218/http://www.mtv.com/ontv/movieawards/archive/year.jhtml?year=1997 |archive-date=December 16, 2007}}</ref>
|-
| rowspan=2| [[17th Golden Raspberry Awards]] || Worst New Star || {{nom}} || rowspan=2|<ref>{{cite book|title=The Official Razzie Movie Guide|last=Wilson|first=John|publisher=[[Grand Central Publishing]]|year=2007|isbn=9780446510080|chapter=Seventeenth Annual Razzies (1996)|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bLpJHjGFNk8C&pg=PT259}}</ref>
|-
| Worst Screen Couple || {{nom}}
|}

== Home media ==
The film was released on [[VHS]] on June 10, 1997, and on [[DVD]] on November 23, 1999, by [[Paramount Home Entertainment]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (1996) - Financial Information |url=https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Beavis-and-Butt-head-Do-America#tab=summary |website=[[The Numbers (website)|The Numbers]] }}</ref> It was re-released on a Special Edition DVD in 2006 as "The Edition That Doesn't Suck".

The video went straight to number one in the official UK video charts on release<ref>{{cite web |title=Official Film On Disc Chart Top 50 04 January 1998 – 10 January 1998 |url=https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/film-on-video-chart/19980104/15/ |website=official charts company |access-date=April 23, 2022}}</ref> of which it stayed at the number one spot for two weeks<ref>{{cite web |title=Official Film On Disc Chart Top 50 11 January 1998 – 17 January 1998 |url=https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/film-on-video-chart/19980111/15/ |website=official charts company |access-date=April 23, 2022}}</ref> before moving to number two during its third week.<ref>{{cite web |title=Official Film On Disc Chart Top 50 18 January 1998 – 24 January 1998 |url=https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/film-on-video-chart/19980118/15/ |website=official charts company |access-date=April 23, 2022}}</ref> The movie spent a total of 17 weeks on the official video charts in the UK.<ref>{{cite web |title=Official Film On Disc Chart Top 50 26 April 1998 – 02 May 1998 |url=https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/film-on-video-chart/19980426/15/ |website=official charts company}}</ref>

The film was released on [[Blu-ray]] for the first time on December 7, 2021, by Paramount Home Entertainment, in commemoration of the film's 25th anniversary.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.animationmagazine.net/2021/10/beavis-and-butt-head-do-america-rolls-to-blu-ray-for-25th-anniversary/|title='Beavis and Butt-head Do America' Rolls to Blu-ray for 25th Anniversary}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|title=Beavis and Butt-Head Do America Blu-ray|url=https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Beavis-and-Butt-Head-Do-America-Blu-ray/59491/|access-date=2021-09-17}}</ref>

== Sequel ==
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In the years following, many fans rumored the possibility of a [[sequel]] or follow-up to the film, tentatively titled ''Beavis and Butt-Head: The Sequel''<ref name="screenrant.com">{{Cite web|url=https://screenrant.com/beavis-and-butt-head-movie-mike-judge-kofi-23670/|title=Beavis and Butt-Head: The Sequel?|last=Outlaw|first=Kofi|date=August 31, 2009|website=[[Screen Rant]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170610183835/https://screenrant.com/beavis-and-butt-head-movie-mike-judge/|archive-date=June 10, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> or ''Beavis and Butt-Head 2''.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://cinemablend.com/new/Comic-Con-Mike-Judge-Teases-Beavis-Butt-Head-2-14086.html |title=Comic Con: Mike Judge Teases Beavis and Butt-Head 2 |date=July 25, 2009 |website=Cinema Blend |access-date=2016-09-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161004002256/http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Comic-Con-Mike-Judge-Teases-Beavis-Butt-Head-2-14086.html |archive-date=2016-10-04 |url-status=live }}</ref> On August 31, 2009, during the promotion of ''[[Extract (film)|Extract]]'', Judge said he would like to see Beavis and Butt-Head on the big screen again.<ref name="screenrant.com"/> In 2019, Judge revealed that he has "some ideas" for a new film, saying there might be potential for a live-action version of the show.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.loudersound.com/news/mike-judge-has-some-ideas-for-new-beavis-and-butt-head-movie|title=Mike Judge has "some ideas" for new Beavis and Butt-Head movie|last=Pattillo|first=Alice|website=Metal Hammer Magazine|date=July 29, 2019|language=en|access-date=2019-09-27}}</ref> In February 2021, it was announced that a new ''Beavis and Butt-Head'' movie was in production for [[Paramount+]], with Mike Judge on board. ''[[Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe]]'' was released on June 23, 2022.

==See also==
* [[List of films set in Las Vegas]]
* [[List of films featuring hallucinogens]]

== References ==
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