Settle down, fartknockers: The first trailer for Beavis and Butt-head Do the Universe is here. This time the low-jinks take our heroes to the Final Frontier — because, as the ever-wise(ass) Beavis notes, “The Earth sucks.” Have a look above.
Uh, hey baby, it’s been more than a quarter-century since the teen toon twits hit big screens in Beavis and Butt-head Do America, and Paramount+ said today that its original pic will launch June 23 on the streamer, marking the duo’s first onscreen appearance in more than a decade.
There are the usual giggled-at references to sex, an interstellar hurl-fest and an appearance from the Great Cornholio as series creator and Do the Universe writer-director Mike Judge returns to voice the prickly pair. He is joined by a cast that includes Chris Diamantopoulos, Nat Faxon, Brian Huskey, Chi McBride, Tig Notaro, Stephen Root, Andrea Savage, Martin Starr and Jimmy O. Yang.
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While we wait for the new season of the old series that introduced the characters during the 1990s, here is the film’s logline (heh-heh, heh — we said “log”): Technically spanning two centuries, the saga begins when Beavis and Butt-Head wind up at space camp through “creative sentencing” from a juvenile court judge in 1998. Mistaking a docking simulator for something else, they excel at it and are asked to join the Space Shuttle mission in a PR move. After ruining said mission, they are left for dead in space and end up going through a black hole and reemerging back on Earth in 2022, only to discover a very different world: They find themselves considered Buttholes of Interest by the NSA, the governor of Texas and a highly intelligent version of themselves from a parallel universe. And they almost lose their virginity; key word “almost.”
Judge also executive produced Beavis and Butt-head Do the Universe along with Lew Morton, Michael Rotenberg, Chris Prynoski, Shannon Prynoski, Ben Kalina, and Antonio Canobbio.
