The production was conducted remotely via Zoom conferencing due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The film follows teenage delinquents Beavis and Butt-Head, who are transported 24 years from 1998 to 2022, encounter parallel-universe versions of themselves and are hunted by the US government. It is the second film based on the animated television series Beavis and Butt-Head after Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (1996). Watch the movie's trailer above.Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe is a 2022 American adult animated science fiction comedy film directed by John Rice and Albert Calleros and written by Mike Judge, Lew Morton, Guy Maxtone-Graham and Ian Maxtone-Graham. Like I say, it’s harder to write than you’d think, but I think I’m pretty happy with the way we brought them into the future.”īeavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe is set to premiere June 23 on Paramount+, with the series revival arriving later this year. I watched a lot of Clouseau movies and Cheech and Chong and that stuff is really well done. “It’s harder than it looks to write Beavis and Butt-Head because they’re so dumb," he said.
Though he was able to adapt his characters to present day, Judge admitted it was a bit of a challenge. The creator did admit that the concept of watching people watch YouTube is not anything new these days, but while “there’s a lot of YouTubers who are watching stuff, not that many of them are animated.
“Now, whatever the demographic that was watching music videos is probably watching this kind of TikTok stuff. We were limited to on MTV, but the world is cluttered with so much video now,” he explained. Beavis and Butt-Head are making their (not so) triumphant return, but will Mike Judge let his slacker characters live in the '90s forever, or will they adjust to life in the 21st century?ĭuring a chat with Consequence at the Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe premiere, Judge explained that Beavis and Butt-Head will be critiquing much more than just music videos in the upcoming two-season revival.