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November 30, 1999
January 1, 2006
20th Century Fox
R (Restricted)
Mike Judge
Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph, Dax Shepard, Kevin McAfee, Ryan Melton, Heath Jones (II), Eli Muñoz, Melissa Sweet (II), Valerie Posas, Andrew Wilson (III), Mark Turner, John Dodson (II), Lawrence Castillo, Turk Pipkin, Roman Ramos, Thomas Haden Church, Melissa Dawn, Greg Kelly (II), Daniel Smith (XV), Katie Knighten
"3.58 Intelligently idiotic! Stupidly entertaining! Oddly prophetic! worth a watch! (Just don't count on being the smarter for watching it for the next 30 minutes.. Maybe after you go through the next 24 hours in light of what you've (I would have said learned fro the movie, but it seemed out of place.... ) watched from the movie."
- Phoenix, gave it a 4/5
"This movie was really funny. Kind of Bill & Ted meet Mad Max. Hilarious."
- spawnshop, gave it a 5/5
"Idiocracy, it's got what you crave. This is a great comedy, and a nice satire of modern culture and how the future may end up if current trends continue."
- brieeyeball, gave it a 5/5
"this movie, it is horrible. Intentional or not - sometimes bad is bad"
- badronald, gave it a 1/5
"This movie was stupid yet has the potential to be prophetic about the evolution of mankind (?). I can see stupid people breeding right now...everywhere. Creepy. The parts I laughed at most was probably any scene involving 'President Camacho'. The whole concept of 'House of Respresentin' killed me as well, along with the mostly naked newscasters of the future, lol. Beware though, this IS a stupid movie. It was made that way on purpose, lol"
- *sueki*stargazer*, gave it a 4/5
Given that Office Space is a bona fide cult classic, it comes as some surprise that Mike Judge's follow-up wasn't more heavily promoted. Granted, this live-action comedy is a darker, more pointed proposition, but it's unfortunate that few theater patrons got the opportunity to, well, judge for themselves. In Idiocracy, the King of the Hill creator visualizes what would happen if Devo's proposition--that mankind is in the process of devolution--came to pass. The catalyst: the overeducated start having fewer children while the undereducated have more. Enter Joe (Luke Wilson), a military librarian with no family and even less ambition. The Pentagon chooses him for a top-secret hibernation project due to his extreme "average-ness." They select Rita (SNL's Maya Rudolph), a prostitute, for the same reason. When the experiment goes haywire, the two emerge 500 years later--rather than one. Now it's 2505 and they're the brightest people in the over-polluted land. Everyone else is, basically, Beavis and Butt-head. Yes, the satire couldn't be less subtle, but the premise gives Judge license to make as much fun of junk food pop culture as dystopian classics like 1984 and Planet of the Apes. Wilson wisely plays it straight, even if the actors who surround him sometimes succumb to excess. And the effects may be cheesy, but that just adds to the fun. Idiocracy features former footballer Terry Crews (Everybody Hates Chris) as President Camacho and Dax Shepard (Punk'd) as Joe's futuristic friend Frito. --Kathleen C. Fennessy - Amazon.com
From Mike Judge, one of the creative minds behind Beavis and Butt-Head, King of the Hill and Office Space, comes an outrageous sci-fi comedy that'll make you think twice about the future of mankind.
Meet Joe Bowers (Luke Wilson). He's not the sharpest tool in the shed. But when a government hibernation experiment goes awry, Bowers awakens in the year 2505 to find a society so dumbed-down by mass commercialism and mindless TV programming that he's become the smartest guy on the planet. Now it's up to an average Joe to get human evolution back on track.
Filled with razor-sharp sarcasm and outrageous sight gags, Idiocracy will make you laugh out loud whether you're an absolute genius or a complete idiot.
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