Idiocracy

Average customer rating: 3.5

A "makes you think" movie
a little too much idiocy...
Ah, Fox
satire too true
Too True

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Idiocracy
Starring: Luke Wilson , Maya Rudolph , Dax Shepard , Anthony 'Citric' Campos , and David Herman
Director: Mike Judge
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Product Group: DVD
Binding: DVD
ASIN: B000K7VHOG
2007-01-09

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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

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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. <P>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! <P>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!

Customer Reviews:

A "makes you think" movie.......2007-06-10

All he's done is project what's going on and has come to the logical conclusion of what will result in the future.
Low budget, loose ends with deadend subplots and a host of other items you could focus on and complain about to downgrade the movie but then you've missed the entire point. As Orwell's 1984 didn't predict the future he was right on the mark as far as his concept of what the government was going to evolve into was still totally correct. This movie takes the fact that in our society there's a direct correlation between education/IQ and how many children will be produced. College educated couples have between 0-2 children whereas low IQ under educated couples have 3+ children - creating an situation where (in a generalized statement) the producers continue to diminish and the takers continue to expand - gee what's eventually going to happen? Just one of many possible outcomes but one worth thinking about and contemplating just how much further government (take from the producers give to the "needy")will create and expand social programs is anyone's guess but my thought is the movies is a little closer to the future then most of the population would like to believe.

a little too much idiocy..........2007-06-07

As much as I would like to give Mike Judge a lifelong pass for his achievements in the near-barren field of modern satire (B&B, Office Space, etc.), I can't recommend the high-concept, lowbrow humor of 'Idiocracy.' Many of the sight gags are as funny and clever as the underlying premise, so why does it fail? Simple, I think: because the story is dull and cliche in equal measure.

There's little doubt that America is slouching toward a self-loathing, monosyllabic plutocracy, subjugated by runaway consumerism and intellectual incuriousness, but it's more complicated than that, with even stranger forces at work. For example, a great portion of our society has become, arguably, overeducated, though not with the results one would expect. (In fact, we seem to have found success only by Orwellian standards: a culture of ultraconformists with liberal-arts degrees. Perhaps the movie would have benefited had it explored paradoxes such as this.) In any case, I think Mr. Judge needed to compensate for the sub-intelligence of his futureworld with a smarter vision of it, which would have required a smarter script and, more than likely, a smarter protagonist than Luke Wilson's 'average joe.'

Ah, Fox.......2007-06-07

You'll never get me to say that this is a "good" movie, but it is definitely funny enough to justify watching. The prolonged introductory segment and the voice overs were simply not necessary, and only once contributed anything genuinely positive to the film (the whole "I can talk to plants" bit really would not have been as funny without the VO doing the explanation). I'll give Mike the benefit of the doubt and assume that most of its problems were caused by evil Fox executives rather than anything he did because it'll help me sleep at night. I'll never understand why they keep ordering more episodes of King of the Hill if they hate him so much that they can't even give him a stable timeslot.

satire too true.......2007-06-04

Fast forward to the year 2505. In this dumbed down world the president of America is a five time, trash-talking Smack Down champion who wields a massive automatic weapon. At Costco, where you can earn your law degree, an obese employee greets customers, "Welcome to Costco, I love you." Every person has a UPC bar code on their wrist. This is the world Joe Bowers woke up to after 500 years, due to a failed human hibernation project of the military. In his previous life he was a dullard, but in his new life he is genius personified. And he saves the world after several zany escapes when he advises America that their dust bowl problems would cease if they irrigated with water instead of Gatorade ("it has electrolytes!"). Some of the humor in this film is rather coarse, but for a fluff movie my wife and I had some good, light-hearted laughs.

Too True.......2007-06-03

Sadly, this movie makes me realize that this is actually how society is going. However, Judge does a great job at making this troublesome view of the future very funny. It's got electrolytes!!

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