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Idiocracy | 
 enlarge | Director: Mike Judge
Actors: Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph, Dax Shepard, Anthony 'citric' Campos, David Herman
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Category: DVD
List Price: $14.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  302 reviews
Sales Rank: 1084
Format: Ac-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), English (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 87
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: FOXD2240186D
UPC: 024543401797
EAN: 0024543401797
ASIN: B000K7VHOG
Theatrical Release Date: 2006
Release Date: January 9, 2007
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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
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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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 Don't bother January 1, 2009
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you're thinking of renting this movie because you're curious to see just how stupid a movie can be, save yourself the trouble: it really is that bad. I managed 20 minutes before I hit fast forward followed very quickly by delete.
 Idiocracy December 28, 2008
Not as funny I as though it would be. Some funny scenes, but gets a little boring and stupid at times.
 Smart start, moronic ending December 27, 2008
I made the mistake of telling my boss, when I was only a third of the way through this movie, what a smart satire it was of modernity. The poor guy went out and bought a copy and, unlike me, watched it all the way through. When I saw him next, he wanted to know what I thought was so funny. Though "Idiocracy" has many moments of clarity and brilliance, had I watched farther than I did, I would have understood his point.
"Idiocracy" tells the tales of Joe Bauers, played by the ever-amiable Luke Wilson -- a low ranking Air Force drudge who is more than happy to hang onto his out-of-the-way cellar desk job. Destiny intervenes in the shape of a test project to freeze ordinary humans, and next thing you know Bauers (and a hooker from downtown) end up in suspended animation for 500 years. Meanwhile, Earth's idiots have outbred the smarties and (by dint of natural selection) now run the planet. Ordinary-IQ Bauers wakes up and is suddenly, by default, the smartest man on Earth.
The sight gags are pretty funny. Garbage is piled as high as skyscrapers. An actual restaurant chain with an already near-scatalogical name (rhymes with "crud muckers") undergoes two additional name changes to something hilariously uncouth and unprintable. Hospitals are staffed by gum-chewing idiots who painstakingly diagnose a patient's complaints using a pictorial shape board. You need to freeze this shot to appreciate the humor packed into this device alone. Language has devolved to a combination of hillbilly, valley-speak and grunts. Corporate logos are ubiquitous, and everything -- down to the clothing worn by the proles, even the judge and lawyers at court -- sports a bevy of corporate brands like NASCAR race cars. Bauers' "intelligence" marks him as a threat, and he is widely feared by the idiot citizenry. He runs into trouble, but ends up as advisor to the President, a foul-mouthed, black former wrestler and porn star.
My boss's opinion notwithstanding, "Idiocracy" is brilliant and incisive, especially early on. But around the halfway mark, it gets a little too serious and the gags and insights peter out. It's here alas, that the film's magic runs out and one begins to wonder how this gaggle of morons manages to maintain the machines and computers they depend on. Add a romance and a silly chase scene, and the fun is over. But while it lasted it was a great ride. Kudos to Mike Judge for daring to name the direction of our society -- which has quickly become a celebration of the lowbrow, the irrelevant and the vulgar.
My boss? I offered to buy the film from him for the $5 it cost him to buy a used copy. But he insisted that it wasn't even worth that much, and he slid it across the desk into my hands. I still don't think it's a bad film, though surely not the masterpiece that some believe it is. Cult film? Not likely. But "Idiocracy's" successes and its great ideas make it worth a watch.
Warning: Don't eat while watching December 24, 2008
I love Mike Judge's Office Space, which I also own, so ordered Idiocracy, sight unseen. My kids had just arrived for a visit the day it arrived, so I put it on. I made the mistake of trying to eat while watching..not recommended as I nearly choked. Luke Wilson makes a great "normal guy" foil and I'm a fan of Maya Rudolph from SNL. I kept belly-laughing for a week afterward. Like Beavis and Butthead, it's more a Juvenalian (way harsh) than Horatian (witty and kindly) satire
Oh, yeah; if you have younger children around you might want to wait until they're in bed before you watch it..unless, of course, you also let them watch South Park
 Funny, but also sad view of America in the future December 17, 2008
This movie is very funny, although not everyone will get all the humor. As funny as it is, the sad part is that this is a very accurate view into the future of America, and it won't take 500 years, if our educational system isn't drastically improved.
I can't help but laugh every time the Costco scene comes on, because it seems like every few years big chains decide their new stores have to keep getting bigger and bigger, and you do almost need a tram system to get around them.
President Kamacho is a prefect example of someone that is elected into office due to their celebrity status rather than actual job qualifications, but he is one funny President.
Everyone in America should watch this movie, and really think about the message it is sending.
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