'Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe' launches the dimwit duo into the 21st century
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The planet's dumbest animated duo make a semi-triumphant return in "Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe," which -- unlike when they "did" America 26 years ago -- premieres via Paramount+. Basically one long, idiotic misunderstanding, it's just the thing to fill the black hole of mindless and inappropriate comedy.
Series creator/voice guy Mike Judge teams with co-writer Lew Morton and directors John Rice and Albert Calleros on this latest adventure, which employs the tried-and-true plot device of having the central duo get sentenced to "space camp," where they're drafted for a mission that inadvertently vaults them through a Black Hole from 1998 into 2022.
A new century brings fresh terminology into their addled teenage lives ("White privilege" included), not that any deeper themes resonate with them. Indeed, the pair's entire motivation is that they think the one female astronaut (Andrea Savage) wants to "do it" with them, yielding an unending Abbott and Costello routine of words with double meanings that produce those trademark "Heh heh" chuckles.
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