Just take a look around and you'll see we don't have to go 500 years into the future to be in witless consumer hell. All movies released should be this movie, until the world wakes up and gets the point.
August 26, 2008 |  | A wonderful satire that should be seen |  |
Office Space helmer and creator of Beavis & Butt-Head and King of the Hill Mike Judge crafted this clever, funny, and deadpan satire that sadly went unnoticed by audiences, thanks in no part to Fox. Idiocracy stars Luke Wilson as Joe Bauers, an army private who is the definition of "average" in terms of intelligence and nearly everything else. He is picked, along with a prostitute named Rita (Saturday Night Live vet Maya Rudolph) for a top secret hibernation experiment where they will be asleep for a year. Instead, the experiment becomes forgotten about, and both wake up 500 years in the future where the world has become overpopulated, overpolluted, and above all, incredibly stupid. While Judge's satire on American society and culture is far from subtle, Idiocracy's message is what really makes it worthwhile. This message, laced within visual gags and some truly hilarious moments, is one that should not be missed, and Idiocracy is a film that should not be missed either, even if Fox went out of their way to not promote the film. The rest of the cast, which includes Dax Shepard, Terry Crews (as the president no less), and Office Space's David Herman, are incredibly fitting as well in their roles. All in all, Idiocracy may have benefited from being a little more subtle, but it is a wonderful satire that deserves your attention regardless.
August 16, 2008 | | How did America miss this movie?!?!?! | |
This movie is HILARIOUS. It follows the least fortunate trends in our culture (superstores, dumbed down entertainment, sex in marketing) to their (please no!) conclusions. I can't imagine why this wasn't the biggest hit of the year - other reviewers seem to suggest that Fox was negligent in its marketing, and if that's true, wow, were they stupid. Ironic, really.
August 5, 2008The movie "Idiocracy" lacks many of the elements that make a good movie, but it works brilliantly as a joke about TV, law, the military, and politics as they currently work to give everyone the maximum motivation to keep turning the crank to get the daily routine's standard rations. I might spoil things for people by giving away a few prime events in the plot, like a garbage avalanche, something that is like shifting items in my apartment that fall to the floor after the lights are out. Has anyone ever seen a monster truck that was too big to fit through the door of the arena where the crowd was already waiting to see what could possibly happen next? Reality might catch up with that stunt soon.
July 31, 2008| | | It's Obvious Why This Film Was Shoved Aside | |
...because it's not so much a look at the direction we're headed as a society...it's an indictment of what we ALREADY ARE! Hilarious...language is crude but it has to be to get it's point across. Just wish I could show it to my kids to give them fair warning of what they will be dealing more and more with as time marches on. And the marching will be pretty out-of-step.
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