Beavis & Butthead Do America

There are many things in this world that epitomise 'awesomeness'. T-Bone steaks, John Woo movies, Jimi Hendrix solos, Chuck Norris etc. But there is 1 thing that reigns above all these. Something that puts other awesome things to shame, and that is the duo of Beavis & Butthead. Created back in 1992, these 2 snickering,  metal loving, sex-obsessed adolescents had their own MTV show between 1993 and 1997, with it being renewed in 2011. The episodes lasted only 5 minutes and, while amusing, were pretty forgettable. But when this pair of loveable imbeciles got their own movie, that was a whole different story!

Directed and co-written by creator Mike Judge, Beavis & Butthead Do America was released in 1996. It involves our heroes taking a trip across America with 2 objectives in mind:

1. Get a new TV
2. Fulfill their collective dream of finally 'scoring'.

The result is one of the absolute best comedies ever to grace the silver screen, and one of the most hysterical films I have ever had the pleasure of witnessing.

After suffering a Godzilla-esque hallucination, Butthead wakes to find that the TV in the house he shares with Beavis has vanished. The window is broken, there is a crowbar on the floor, and footprints on the carpet leading to the open front door. Butthead's analysis of the situation: 'This sucks'. By God I love this movie.

While searching for their TV, the duo come across a drunk named Muddy (Bruce Willis), who offers them $10,000 to 'do' his estranged wife. Being the, shall we say, undiscerning individuals that they are, they believe this is their chance to finally score. Flying to Las Vegas, they encounter Muddy's wife Dallas (Demi Moore), a drop-dead gorgeous blonde who has stolen a prototype biological weapon known as the X-5. Aware that the ATF is onto her, she plants the X-5 in Buttheads' pants and puts them both on a coach to Washington D.C., where she claims she will let them 'do' her.

With that, we have one of cinemas most epic road trips. The scale of their adventure can barely be quantified. In the space of several days, they shut down Hoover Dam, cause a highway pile-up, incur the wrath of God, become America's most wanted men, and nearly die of dehydration in the Arizona Desert. But what makes everything do damn funny is just how nonchalantly they treat these incidents. They face the most horrific perils and it barely seems to faze them. They are truly the world's most fearless individuals.

This film slays me everytime I see it. The cheeky innuendos, the hysterical quotes, their utter cluenessness about pretty much everything, and their uncanny ability to end up in the deepest trouble and not even notice it. I love this film so much I could talk about it all day. But for the purposes of this review, I will simply finish by saying that this is, hands down, one of the funniest movies I have ever seen. If you have the chances to see it, do NOT pass it up.