Though the movie rockets Judge’s doltish heroes into the future, it feels like a charming artifact from the past. But this movie isn’t trying to be another “Idiocracy.” It takes a simple story - Beavis and Butt-Head traveling through time and space, convinced they’re on the verge of losing their virginity - and packs it with jokes about testicular injury and masturbation, along with some affectionate musing on the inherent absurdity of these eternally unchanging boys.
Judge squeezes in a little social commentary on how American society - past and present - contorts itself to accommodate a couple of white dudes, even when they’re total morons. Judge brings the kids into the present day via an endearingly goofy plot that has them launching into space circa 1998 and traveling through a wormhole to 2022, where they adapt surprisingly quickly to a world of iPhones - a device they use to pay for nachos and to ask the virtual assistant Siri questions about sex. “Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe” works just fine as a feature-length introduction to the title duo: two hyper-hormonal Texas teens who see double entendres everywhere and are easily distracted by violence (especially when they goad each other into it). His new movie is gloriously, hilariously crude.
In the decades since, Mike Judge - the inventor and the voice of the perpetually chuckling animated duo - has gained renown as one of our sharpest social satirists, thanks to movies like “Office Space” and “Idiocracy” and the TV series “Silicon Valley.” Yet what’s so wonderful about the sequel “Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe” is that Judge does nothing to make his most famous creation any more sophisticated - visually or comedically. Gen-X kids, prepare to feel old: It has been more than 25 years since the movie “Beavis and Butt-Head Do America” premiered.
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