Review: ‘Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe’

Those who were listening attentively back in the early 1990s understood that there was brilliance beneath the “Uh . . . huhhuhhuh” of Mike Judge’s Beavis and Butt-Head. We were vindicated repeatedly over the years, as Judge became a much-quoted oracle with his films Office Space and Idiocracy and his TV shows King of the Hill and Silicon Valley. Now Judge is back to where he got started with a bright new Paramount+ movie: Get ready for B&B in space.

What Judge, now a widely acclaimed authority on idiocy, has accomplished in Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe will go unnoticed by most critics, but here it is: The movie is a successor to 1979’s Being There for our moment.

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Kyle Smith

Kyle Smith is the film critic for the Wall Street Journal.

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Those who were listening attentively back in the early 1990s understood that there was brilliance beneath the “Uh . . . huhhuhhuh” of Mike Judge’s Beavis and Butt-Head. We were vindicated repeatedly over the years, as Judge became a much-quoted oracle with his films Office Space and Idiocracy and his TV shows King of the Hill and Silicon Valley. Now Judge is back to where he got started with a bright new Paramount+ movie: Get ready for B&B in space.

What Judge, now a widely acclaimed authority on idiocy, has accomplished in Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe will go unnoticed by most critics, but here it is: The movie is a successor to 1979’s Being There for our moment.