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Product Description An average guy volunteers to be the subject of a hibernation experiment that goes awry. He wakes up 500 years in the future discovering that hes the smartest guy on the planet. Studio: Tcfhe Release Date: 06/10/2008
Amazon.com 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
I didn't watch this movie...December 4, 2008 At least that's what I would tell people. The first time I saw it, I was embarrassed to admit I watched the whole thing. But, it grew on me. I had to see it a second time to realize it will become a cult classic. I love B movies. This is one of the best!
Nietzsche and IdiocracyNovember 29, 2008 1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Idiocracy -- about a dystopia 500 years in the future where braindead fools populate the planet and everything is run by corporations -- was actually presaged by Friedrich Nietzsche in his philosophical masterpiece, Thus Spake Zarathustra. In it he heralds the dawn of a new philosophical era, the threat of nihilism, and the übermensch. The übermensch -- or the man who seeks to surpass himself, to reach his potential -- stands diametrically opposite to what Nietzsche calls The Last Man, who is perfectly content with stagnation, whose "herd mentality" makes him most comfortable among equally unambitious people, who is unable to criticize himself, and who therefore cannot grow.
"The earth hath then become small, and on it there hoppeth the last man who maketh everything small. His species is ineradicable like that of the ground-flea; the last man liveth longest.
'We have discovered happiness'-say the last men, and blink thereby."
Thus Spake Zarathustra
Idiocracy is not a great movie, but it is a trenchant critique of our society (though about as subtle as using a sledgehammer to drive in a pin).The movie obviously is directed at the United States, where underrated director Mike Judge, creator of Beavis and Butthead and cult movie Office Space, hails from. But anyone traveling abroad, or surfing the internet, can easily surmise the same thing: that we are already living in a budding idiocracy everywhere on the planet.
Nietzsche -- whose anti-Darwinian diatribes are well-known -- warned against a future idiocracy, not just in Zarathustra, but throughout his oeuvre. More recently Tom Robbins saw the last battles on earth being fought out by cockroaches and the gonorrhea bacillus. In other words, evolution does not necessarily mean survival of the best. You can see Nietzsche's point, and how he was right as opposed to Hegelian and Marxian notions of the dialectical third -- wherein the thesis and antithesis of the historical process combine and re-formulate to produce something better.
Idiocracy is anti-Darwinian through and through. In it, army private Joe Bauer, chosen for his "perfect averageness", and a woman trying to wave off a prostitution rap named Rita, enter into a top secret army hibernation experiment. Meanwhile, the top brass in charge of the experiment are jailed for corruption, and the location of the hibernation experiment is demolished with Joe and Rita still in their hibernation chambers. In its place a chain restaurant called Fuddrucker's is built.
500 years in the future, their hibernation chambers are dislodged from a giant mountain of garbage in what's called the "Great Garbage Avalanche". They wake up in a society run by morons who are named after products (President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho , Dr. Lexus, Frito Pendejo, among others). Fuddruckers has changed into B*ttf*ckers, Starbucks now offers handjobs with every latte, and Carl's Jr.'s motto is "F*ck you. I'm eating". A narrator explains the best minds have disappeared because of under-procreation, and that the more promiscuous illiterate, alcoholic, under-achieving masses have come to dominate the planet.
In the future, anyone who doesn't make constant fart jokes or who uses words other than "f*ck" is considered a "fag" and a "tard". Nevertheless, average Joe tests as having the highest IQ ever, and President Mountain Dew Camacho, hires him as Secretary of the Interior to solve the dustbowl crisis. Mysteriously, no crops are growing and the nation faces imminent starvation.
While inspecting the crops Joe realizes that they were being watered with Brawndo (an obvious allusion to Gatorade, a power drink with "lots of electrolytes"). Joe suggests they try water, and a few weeks later the first seedlings appear again. But in those interim weeks he faces near death at the hands of his impatient underlings, ultimate-fighting bouts against a futuristic fighter called Beef Supreme, and falls in love with Rita. Joe -- most disappointingly -- conforms to the idiocracy and decides to stay on with President Mountain Dew. Until here, the movie worked, even if it was about as subtle as soapbox preacher with a megaphone. But you shouldn't watch this movie expecting Dionysian tragedy, or anything close to high art. Entertaining it is.
Idiocracy attempts high-brow low-brow, and mostly succeeds. It's a low budget movie, not particularly notable for its directorial style, but it raises eyebrows with its brazen mocking of corporate culture. It's not a surprise that its parent company Fox refused to advertise it anywhere, and only allowed a limited release (Fox News in the future is also ridiculed, in fact, with two newscaster that look like 80s era porn actors, half-dressed, and pretty much sputtering the same inanities as they do today).
Michael Moore famously cited the giant loophole that allowed him to create movies that sometimes undermined the very corporations that distributed them -- the profit to be made will always trump whatever critiques are being made. Idiocracy is just as subjective as any Michael Moore movie, but probably not as effective (if it was at all intended as a wake-up call). You'll either be laughing with it, or at it, but it won't change your mind about anything if you haven't already seen the idiocracy around you.
Biting Satire, with a Heart of GoldNovember 22, 2008 With its own ironically goofy veneer of stupidity, crudeness and cheese, this film is a brilliant and hilarious study of stupidity, crudeness and cheese taken to extremes. The many reviewers who have given Idiocracy 4 and 5 star reviews recognize the intelligence within the farce, but few seem to note the undercurrent of sympathy and compassion that is present, as well. It is certainly a dark vision of a radically dumbed-down future, yet its view of the "average guy" of the present, personified by the Luke Wilson charecter who is the movie's protagonist, is surprisingly optimistic. He is never less than well-meaning, and his confusion never veers into fear and blind reaction. He accepts the mental limitations of those he's surrounded by and he is forgiving when he is victimized by them. Playing an artless innocent, Luke Wilson's acting is easy to underestimate.
There have been some complaints about production quality, acting and the "silly love story" that develops in the latter course of the film. For me, these criticisms are off the mark. I would not change a thing about this unpretentious work of genius.
It's like a crystal ball!November 15, 2008 1 out of 1 found this review helpful
In retrospect, it is coming true.
Who wrote the script? a really good fortune teller?
A ClassicOctober 30, 2008 This is a very funny movie. Great story line and flawless casting.
This movie tells the amazing story of where our civilization is headed and
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