This is the movie adaptation of the once wildly popular MTV show, Beavis and Butthead. The show was about a couple of slackers (the titular Beavis and Butthead) who were voiced by series creator Mike Judge, who basically watched TV most of the time and were a pain in the ass to everyone in their town when they ventured outside. The movie starts out like a regular episode of the show, with some of the show's other characters (mostly voiced by Judge) appearing. When Beavis and Butthead discover their TV has been stolen, they try to find it, wind up being (somehow) mistaken for hitmen (by characters voiced by Demi Moore and Bruce Willis), and mistaken for criminal mastermind domestic terrorists by the government. They end up traveling across the country, tailed by an FBI agent voiced by Robert Stack with the climax of the movie occurring in Washington D.C.
The DVD has quite a few extras, including a commentary track on the movie by Judge and the animation director, a making-of documentary that runs just over 22 minutes that has cast interviews and clips from the movie, a 10-minute feature on the movie's score, a 2-minute montage of Beavis and Butthead hitting each other, a short collection of celebrity interviews talking about the characters, and then the trailers and a bunch of promotional TV spots.
The movie was made at the height of, or just past the height of, the show's popularity. The humor in the movie is pretty much the same as that of the show, and probably a bit more on the adult side. Judge manages to use stupid, juvenile humor while also making subtle (and sometimes not so subtle) social commentary. The movie does not have the music video breaks that the TV show had, but the story flows well enough that you don't really miss them. So, ultimately, if you were a fan of the TV show, you will probably be a fan of the movie. If you did not like the show, chances are the movie is not going to do anything for you either.
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