Beavis and Butt-Head’s streaming-only return on June 23 is sci-fi for morons

Enlarge / New movie, same T-shirts.

Years after announcing a deal to bring back MTV's most popular cartoon characters of all time, Paramount+ finally took the wraps off its first major Beavis and Butt-Head production this week. And, honestly, this is about as "Ars Technica" as the '90s cartoon duo might ever get.

Warning: this preview includes spoilers based on the recently released trailer. If you want to go into this film as clueless as its lead characters, consider yourself warned.

24 years later and he still hasn't found TP for his bunghole?! (credit: Paramount+)

Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe will premiere exclusively on Paramount+ on June 23, and its handlers at MTV are already calling this feature-length treatment "the dumbest science-fiction film ever made." The film appears to resurrect the polished-yet-childish animation style established in their previous feature-length adventure, Beavis and Butt-Head Do America—only this time with CGI flourishes that you might expect from dumb teenagers flying not only through space but also time.

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from arstechnica.