Idiocracy (2006)

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• Sam B

  
  A brilliant concept in need of a better movie. Idiocracy isn't bad - it's got some genuinely funny moments, and I also respect Luke Wilson a lot more than I used to (he's always been a poor-man's version of Owen Wilson to me). But the movie slowly devolves from… More
  A brilliant concept in need of a better movie. Idiocracy isn't bad - it's got some genuinely funny moments, and I also respect Luke Wilson a lot more than I used to (he's always been a poor-man's version of Owen Wilson to me). But the movie slowly devolves from great, genuine satire into foolish nonsense, as if the stupidity of the Earth portrayed in the film's story rubbed off on the film itself, and there's practically no character development in sight.

• Jay H

  
  While it's not much funnier than any other comedy, Idiocracy features quality comedic performances from Wilson and Shepard, who manage to entertain us through 90 minutes of idiocy. Ultimately, though, the film isn't much more than a mildly-funny diversion.

• Rubia Carolina .

  
  <br/> "Is the essence of life comic or tragic?" <i>Brave New World, 1984, Alphaville, Sleeper, Idiocracy</i>. While Godard kept the same cold and grim atmosphere of Aldous Huxley and George Orwell's novels, Woody Allen made a comedy of a future… More
  <br/> "Is the essence of life comic or tragic?" <i>Brave New World, 1984, Alphaville, Sleeper, Idiocracy</i>. While Godard kept the same cold and grim atmosphere of Aldous Huxley and George Orwell's novels, Woody Allen made a comedy of a future society. More than thirty years after Allen's <i>Sleeper</i>, Mike Judge, taking the same road, uses a sort of slapstick humor to present a very plausible coming reality. Having a tragic or a comic perspective, the main point of concordance among these five works is the pessimism - but have in mind that <i>Idiocracy</i> is a satire, that's why it is done in the same models of the culture it is criticizing. The future may not have been as hopeless as Huxley and Orwell feared, but we start to see their predictions here and there, dressed as liberty, modernity and other concepts that hide milder forms of control and totalitarianism. Perhaps the highly mechanized individuals of <i>Alphaville</i> seem "too much" to us. Perhaps the <i>orgasmatron</i> of <i>Sleeper</i> or the "Ass" movie that "won eight Oscars that year, including best screenplay" in <i>Idiocracy</i> seems too much "funny" to be taken seriously, but we can't deny the latent discomfort we feel. If <i>Alphaville</i> made me think and amazed me with its aesthetics, and <i>Sleeper</i> pleased me with its silly-intelligent jokes, <i>Idiocracy</i> really worried me. In <i>Alphaville</i>, Godard brings the importance of the language as a direct influence in thoughts and attitudes. The lack of words like love and conscience, for example, made people of Alphaville "to forget" certain emotions. What Godard may not knew at that time was that it wouldn't happen a suppression of emotions, but an exaltation of them, specially the positive ones, i.e. "happiness". Words were not taken off of the dictionary, but they were replaced by <i>emoticons</i>. One of the greatest hits of <i>Idiocracy</i> is the hospital receptionist that doesn't need to think, only to listen to what the patient is saying and select a button with an icon based on that: for "my head is just killing me", for example, there's an emoticon of a gun pointed to the head of a sad face. The absurd of this scene is that it doesn't seem absurd at all. It is actually, and within the proper proportions, of course, something quite familiar nowadays. There's no need to wake up in 500 years to realize that a poor vocabulary leads to common sense and empty or childish arguments. All we need to do is to access our favorite social networks and thousands of examples will jump in front of our eyes. The problem is that things are very subtle today, what makes us think, for example, that coming to wear branding on our clothes like it happens in <i>Idiocracy</i> is something impossible to happen. As if we already didn't! Every time we "like" a product or a company on <i>Facebook</i>, we are advertising it. Not to mention that lots of things we use are not products but labels. It's curious that <i>Idiocracy</i> was released around the same time that <i>Twitter</i> was created, and some similarities can be noted. - Brought to you by Carl's Jr. - Why do you keep saying that? - 'Cause they pay me every time I do. The only thing that is missing here is the <i>at sign</i>. <b>Brought to me by @Carl'Jr</b>. Can't you picture that? The world is already full of publicity disguised as simple sentences. And we are already "strolling" slogans. But, hey, maybe things won't turn out that bad. <br/> <br/>

• Jeff "

  
  Mike Judge does it again. He directs yet another great satire film, one that will make you laugh and provide you with an entertaining hour and a half. Mike Judge knows how to effectively create good humor using the simplest ideas. Office Space was a comedy about how crappy work can be… More
  Mike Judge does it again. He directs yet another great satire film, one that will make you laugh and provide you with an entertaining hour and a half. Mike Judge knows how to effectively create good humor using the simplest ideas. Office Space was a comedy about how crappy work can be for people, and it turned out to be a great comedy. Idiocracy for example is a future dystopia populated by idiots. There's nothing clever about the idea, it's simple, and that's the beauty about mike Judge, that's his genius. In Idiocracy, Mike Judge crafts yet another great comedy using the simplest ideas, and it works. The cast that Judge directs here are all hilarious in their parts, and though the film may not be perfect, the film has enough laughs to be a memorable film that delivers a good time. The jokes are good and the story is quite original. The cast are great and Mike Judge directs yet another good comedy that brings on big laughs. Idiocracy is not the best comedy that Mike Judge has ever made, but for what it is, it's a pretty good follow-up to his classic Office Space. I enjoyed how stupid this film was, and I mean that in the most positive way. In fact the whole point of the film was the stupidity of humankind in the future. Mike Judge pulls off something good here, something that's very funny, original and quite frankly memorable. Idiocracy is a fun comedy that has a good cast with plenty of idiotic jokes. If you're a fan of Mike Judge, you'll enjoy this film.

• Jim H

  
  An average guy and a prostitute participate in a military experiment gone wrong that results in both waking up in a future Earth where everybody is stupid. The corporatization of politics and America's obsession with violence provide the fodder for this film's satire, and… More
  An average guy and a prostitute participate in a military experiment gone wrong that results in both waking up in a future Earth where everybody is stupid. The corporatization of politics and America's obsession with violence provide the fodder for this film's satire, and though these are fair points, I thought the film ran out of gas after its initial points were made. And the menace of Rita's pimp can never really be taken all that seriously by the audience, and it seemed as though the characters treated his presence with the same blithe inattention despite his frequent mention. The performances were all fine, Luke Wilson and Dax Shepard playing their normal roles. Overall, this film gets two stars for its concept, but beyond that, there wasn't much to sink one's teeth into.

• vieras e

  
  I didn't find this funny as much as terrifying.

• Derek A

  
  The opening act for this film and the idea itself, in my opinion, is VERY GOOD. But, wow, it quickly takes a nose dive once the second act begins. And the third act? Holy shit, what a horrible movie. It's scary how quickly this movie went from interesting to complete garbage.… More
  The opening act for this film and the idea itself, in my opinion, is VERY GOOD. But, wow, it quickly takes a nose dive once the second act begins. And the third act? Holy shit, what a horrible movie. It's scary how quickly this movie went from interesting to complete garbage. <p>The scary thing about this is the predictions for the future. At the time this film was made, we didn't have a black president... and now we do. Mike Judge might be on to something here.....

• Matt G

  
  I'm Not, Sure (ha!) if this is one of the funniest, or smartest movies. This should send a message out about education. We can't let our entire population become idiots or else we'll live in a huge pile of trash. This movie is amazing and I've seen it so many… More
  I'm Not, Sure (ha!) if this is one of the funniest, or smartest movies. This should send a message out about education. We can't let our entire population become idiots or else we'll live in a huge pile of trash. This movie is amazing and I've seen it so many times.

• Robert C

  
  Takes a great premise and then continues running with it longer after it stops being funny. It's an ammusing film, but nearly as funny or clever as it thinks that it is.

• Manu G

  
  In the future, intelligence is extinct. I can say IDIOCRACY is a good movie.It's effective, sometimes ingenious. To be realistic this movie is dumb as any movie could be, you'll see when you see it. Still, this movie is funny at times and hilarious at others. This movie is… More
  In the future, intelligence is extinct. I can say IDIOCRACY is a good movie.It's effective, sometimes ingenious. To be realistic this movie is dumb as any movie could be, you'll see when you see it. Still, this movie is funny at times and hilarious at others. This movie is cool because of so many parodies or clever jokes around. There's an extra scene at the end of the credits so pay attention. The narrator (Earl Mann) explains that natural selection is indifferent to intelligence, so that in a society in which intelligence is consistently debased, stupid, irresponsible people easily out-breed the intelligent, creating, over the course of five centuries, an irremediably dim and sexually motivated dystopia. Demographic superiority favours those least likely to advance society. Consequently, the children of the educated élites are drowned in a sea of promiscuous, illiterate, proletarian peers. In 2005, Corporal Joe Bauers (Luke Wilson), a US Army librarian graphed as the Army's "most average" soldier, and Rita (Maya Rudolph), a prostitute terrified of her pimp, Upgrayedd (Scarface) (pronounced: upgrade, two Ds for "a double-dose of this pimping"), are guinea pigs in a secret, year-long, military hibernation project. They are sealed in their hibernation chambers, to be awakened a year later, but the experiment is forgotten when the officer in charge, Lieutenant Colonel Collins (Michael McCafferty), is arrested for having started his own prostitution ring under the tutelage of Upgrayedd. The military base is demolished, and a Fuddruckers (eventually devolving into Buttfuckers) is built on the site. Five hundred years in the future, their hibernation chambers are jarred open in the 'Great Garbage Avalanche of 2505', reviving both of them. Joe crashes into the house of Frito Pendejo (Dax Shepard), a typical, idiot citizen of the American future, whose dwelling is full of junk food with a prominent, giant television screen that is covered with adverts. His name, Frito Pendejo, is a haphazard combination of a product mascot (Frito Bandito) and the Spanish slang word insult. Frito is watching Ow! My Balls!, a popular TV program that lives up to it's name with very little artistic effort. Joe is disoriented and unable to exercise the discretion necessary to allow Frito to watch his program. Consequently, Joe is thrown out the window his capsule just broke. Joe stumbles into a hospital, where slacker Dr. Lexus, MD (Justin Long), diagnoses him as simply "'tarded" and "fucked up". Dr. Lexus panics on discovering that Joe has no barcode-tattoo on his left wrist, and so cannot be scanned for automatic debit payment. Having noticed that the date of a magazine he finds on the doctor's desk (Hot Naked Chicks and World Report, 3 March 2505) has the same date indicated on his bill, Joe finally grasps that 500 years have passed since the Army put him in stasis. He is alarmed by the sights of the collapsing world (decaying buildings, that are strapped to each other, mountains of garbage, etc.) and flees the hospital, only to be arrested at a Carl's Jr. junk food vending booth for not paying his hospital bill and for not having a barcode tattoo. At trial, Joe's public defence lawyer ("Attornee at Law") is Frito Pendejo, Esq., who stupidly helps convict him, citing the prosecutor's insistence that Joe is guilty and his own anger at Joe for damaging his house (in the garbage avalanche). Joe is imprisoned; a poorly-designed I.D.-tattoo machine re-names Joe as "Not Sure" (because he is not sure about his name as it appears on some form) and barcode-tattoos him as such. During a mandatory (and very simple) I.Q. test, Joe grasps just how stupid humanity has become. Easily escaping his dim jailors, Joe returns to Frito's apartment, asking him if a time machine exists to help him return to the past, to 2005. Frito claims there is one, but agrees to help only after Joe promises him billions of dollars from a savings account that Joe will open in the past upon his return. Frito is unable to understand the concept of compound interest, but takes Joe's word for it that Frito will earn 30 billion dollars minus the 20 billion dollars for expenses making 80 billion dollars. En route to the time machine, Joe and Frito find Rita. She does not know that she's been asleep for 500 years until Joe tells her, and even then, she expects Upgrayedd will find her. Frito leads them to a city-sized Costco, where Joe is re-arrested when he accidentally allows his barcode to be scanned; instead of prison, Joe is delivered to the White House. President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho (Terry Crews) has seen Joe's I.Q. test (scoring him as the most intelligent man in the world) and recruits him as Secretary of the Interior to correct the United States' food and crop shortages, dust bowl, crippled economy, mountains of garbage, and related matters. The other cabinet members are lampoons of contemporary politicians' nepotism, corporate loyalty corruption, and over-emphasis on sex appeal in political media coverage. Joe learns that water has been replaced with Brawndo: The Thirst Mutilator (which Joe likens to Gatorade) a drink advertised as "rich in electrolytes", for virtually every purpose, including crop irrigation. Water is only used in toilets. Over time, the electrolytes in Brawndo accumulated in the soil, killed the crops, and caused the food shortage. After giving up on explaining to the cabinet that electrolytes are not conducive to plant-life, Joe reintroduces the practice of watering crops. However, overnight, the Brawndo Corporation's stock becomes worthless, causing great unemployment without visibly improving the crop situation. The angry populace riot, Joe is made the scapegoat, and is sentenced to a day of "rehabilitation"; an execution disguised as a public demolition derby, billed as "Monday Night Rehabilitation". Meanwhile, Rita discovers that the soil has made crops sprout in the fields. To save Joe, with Frito Pendejo in tow, she bribes a television cameraman to show the sprouting crops to the world. Before reaching the crop field, Frito and the cameraman are distracted by a sale at a Starbucks chain brothel franchise; only after they quarrel and fight does Frito remember his duty and film the crop sprouts. President Camacho sees the thriving new plants on the stadium's big-screen televisions, and grants Joe a pardon just as he is about to be incinerated with a flamethrower. At the celebration, Joe decides to stay and help repair American civilization; President Camacho names him Vice President of America. He also learns that the "Time Masheen" is just an amusement park ride, with a historical theme, wherein Charlie Chaplin was leader of the Nazi party who used dinosaurs to wage war on the world, and the U.N. (pronounced "The Un") "Un-Nazied the world forever". Joe serves a short term as Vice President, then is elected as Camacho's successor. Joe and Rita marry and have the world's three smartest children, while Frito Pendejo takes eight wives and fathers thirty-two of the world's stupidest children, echoing the introduction to the film. After the credits, a third hibernation capsule is shown opening, releasing a snappily dressed Upgrayedd into the world, who struts down the street, as a pimp is wont to do.

• Bently L

  
  One of the most bizarre, random, and funniest movies I have ever seen. Mike Judge's "Idiocracy" tells the story of Joe Bauers, a military librarian who is sent 500 years into the future. The future is completely ruled by stupidity and Joe is the only smart person alive.… More
  One of the most bizarre, random, and funniest movies I have ever seen. Mike Judge's "Idiocracy" tells the story of Joe Bauers, a military librarian who is sent 500 years into the future. The future is completely ruled by stupidity and Joe is the only smart person alive. Joe is now on a mission to bring back intelligence to the world. I encountered this movie while channel surfing. The awkward opening scene caught my attention and I decided to sit around the whole thing. The humor and scripting is really unique and had me satisfied at the end. The acting is pretty good too. Luke Wilson really knows how to act around a bunch of stupid people. Dax Shepard, Maya Rudolph, and the funny dad from "Everyone Hates Chris", Terry Crews, are all very entertaining in this. This movie is not for everyone. Many will find the plot and humor style unsuitable for the taste. I have a thing for movies with random humor, like "Monty Python and the Holy Grail", so I found this very funny. The movie left me in stitches. Check this one out! I highly recommend it indeed! "Upgrade."

• Tsubaki S

  
  A sort of spin-off of the sci-fi story "the marching morons" Idiocracy is a satire of popular/trash culture becoming a way of life for millions of people, this taken to the very extreme of course. This is not a movie about the future, but about the very present we live in,… More
  A sort of spin-off of the sci-fi story "the marching morons" Idiocracy is a satire of popular/trash culture becoming a way of life for millions of people, this taken to the very extreme of course. This is not a movie about the future, but about the very present we live in, where celebrities are worshiped as semi-gods living among us, where ignorance has become not something to be ashame of, but something to be very proud. Idiocracy keeps itself constantly funny, and even if some of the jokes seem like very "obvious" material, the fact that fox did not give this movie a proper release in cinemas speaks for itself. The movie do falls short on it's aim, or maybe is just somewhere else,. For instance, religion is never ever mentioned in the movie at all, you could say that the movie is showing trash culture as the next gods of humanity. At the end what is truly bringing humanity to a swamp is not just simple "dumbness", but the greed of a few, and the apathy of many. But that might be material for another time.

• Jens S

  
  The premise of the film (future mankind being so stupid an average Joe from our time could rule it) is actually excellent, so is the way it is set up. Sadly, the film doesn't make the most out of it, although a few jokes and ideas are quite hilarious. There simply would have been… More
  The premise of the film (future mankind being so stupid an average Joe from our time could rule it) is actually excellent, so is the way it is set up. Sadly, the film doesn't make the most out of it, although a few jokes and ideas are quite hilarious. There simply would have been potential for more, while the humor aims below the belt a little too often and could have been satire a lot more. Still, worth seeing for a good laugh. I only want to rate it 2.5, but the Charlie Chaplin joke alone was worth half a star.

• Anthony L

  
  I think it's quite telling of the Fox network not giving this film the attention it deserved, they and many other great corporations will be the downfall of our civilisation. Idiocracy is an intelligent satire that is both funny and frighteningly possible. Great stuff from Mike… More
  I think it's quite telling of the Fox network not giving this film the attention it deserved, they and many other great corporations will be the downfall of our civilisation. Idiocracy is an intelligent satire that is both funny and frighteningly possible. Great stuff from Mike Judge, someone I'd like to see making more live action films. Another Bevis and Butthead outing wouldn't go a miss either ;o)

• E.J. B

  
  Idiocracy is a film with a concept. Humans are devolving into a bunch of idiots. And if you really think about it, this could happen. Yes, the film is utterly stupid. It would be so easy for an audience to throw up their hands any be done with this movie. But I'm willing to… More
  Idiocracy is a film with a concept. Humans are devolving into a bunch of idiots. And if you really think about it, this could happen. Yes, the film is utterly stupid. It would be so easy for an audience to throw up their hands any be done with this movie. But I'm willing to bet that the same kind of people who don't get this movie are the same kinds of people this film is ridiculing. We are becoming a nation of dumbed down idiots. We have to have everything spelled out for us. We don't want to think for ourselves. We hate reading, or anything that forces us to be creative. I can only look to the success of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen as proof that no one really wants to understand what they're watching. A scene doesn't have to make any sense; as long as there's a big explosion happening, it's got our attention. I certainly see a bit of anger in Mike Judge's film. His film viciously condemns the dumbing down of society. We laugh at these people. Sometimes, we can't even laugh, because they are so stupid we almost pity them and their utter stupidity. If you've never seen the you tube clips advertising Brawndo and Powerthirst, check it out. They are incredibly funny. The Brawndo advertisements seem like they are tie-ins to Idiocracy, completely stupid, ludicrous, yet hilarious. Idiocracy works because it makes you laugh at these characters. It's all in the name of good satire. .

• Mike S

  
  You know you can trust Mike Judge to make a good comedy. It is, after all, the man behind the legendary Beavis and Butthead. And much like that show revolves around idiots, so does this movie. Only here on a way bigger scale, as it takes place in a distant future where mankind has… More
  You know you can trust Mike Judge to make a good comedy. It is, after all, the man behind the legendary Beavis and Butthead. And much like that show revolves around idiots, so does this movie. Only here on a way bigger scale, as it takes place in a distant future where mankind has devolved into dimwitted morons. With a running time of only 80 min, the movie is obviously pretty short, but I have to say those minutes have been used very wisely. Some gags are gut-wrenchingly funny, and even cleverly written in all its stupidity. It also reminded me a lot of <i>Wall-E</i>, for reasons you'll know when you see it. In summary: not the brightest movie around, but very entertaining and a solid choice for a fun movie night with your friends.

• Phil H

  
  Weird, rubbish and ultimately not funny, dont bother.....ever.

• Ginny  

  
  <font size=1>Late Post: </font><br><center><b>"You think Einstein walked around thinkin everyone was a bunch of dumb shits?"</center></b><br><br>I have mixed feelings about this movie. <br><br>For one it has… More
  <font size=1>Late Post: </font><br><center><b>"You think Einstein walked around thinkin everyone was a bunch of dumb shits?"</center></b><br><br>I have mixed feelings about this movie. <br><br>For one it has managed to tackle a lot of the thoughts that Ive had about people and society, and how horribly gruesome and migrane triggering some people can be... <br><br>Whats cool? Whats in? Whats hip? Do the masses dictate what those things are? Or is this kind of thinking coming from someone with an inflated ego and a bit of superiority complex? <br><br>In the business sector, company take overs, product alterations and its impact to its consumers. Advertising propaganda that say "BIG! MONDO! MEGA! ULTRA! GIGANTIC! JUMBO! COLOSSAL! IS A WHOOPING GREAT THING!" -- "Its good for you! Buy It!" and people buy a chuck load of it... The bandwagon effect. <br><br>And theres those cretins who do nothing but procreate.. procreate.. and procreate... <br><br><center><b>"Now you know why he built that bomb."</b><font size=1>Referring to Einstein and the Atomic Bomb</font></center><br>From a director that created King of the Hill and Beavis and Butt-head, this movie had suprisingly exceeded my expectations. It grabs a hold of those thoughts you try to push at the back of your head and gives you this movie as a visual exaggeration of the world. The story says this is 500 years in the future, and a couple of flix buddies have stated that this is the possible future, I say, wake up... Its already happened, were already there. <br><br>Mike Judge's works had always had an odd taste to them. Idiocracy however, is half smart and half dull for a dark comedy. Its definitely another guilty pleasure movie, as the good things about the movie really isnt even visually IN the movie, but inside the viewers head!<br><br>The story is so high school, but if youre tolerant enough to get past thru some of the "crude" scenes in this film, you might just find yourself amused and mind raked afterwards. <br><br><b>Director: Mike Judge<br>Rated R</b>

• Chris W

  
  This movie was quite funny and entertaining, but I think ithey could have done a bit more with the already clever and interesting concept at hand here. I expected it to be funnier than it was, but even then, this movie is still a decent way to spend not even 90 minutes.

• Lorenzo v

  
  <i>"The Future Is A No Brainer"</i> Mike Judge wrote and directed this offbeat sci-fi comedy which gives a new meaning to the expression "people are getting dumber all the time." In 2005, Pvt. Joe Bowers (Luke Wilson) is a soldier chosen to take part… More
  <i>"The Future Is A No Brainer"</i> Mike Judge wrote and directed this offbeat sci-fi comedy which gives a new meaning to the expression "people are getting dumber all the time." In 2005, Pvt. Joe Bowers (Luke Wilson) is a soldier chosen to take part in a secret military scientific experiment in which he will be put into induced hibernation for one year, along with a woman named Rita (Maya Rudolph). Bowers is chosen for the assignment because he is statistically the most average man in the Army, while Rita is a hooker ordered to do some community service; however, Bowers and Rita are forgotten when the military base where the experiment took place is closed down, and when they wake up in the year 2505, Bowers finds himself living in a society where intelligence has taken such a landslide he's now the smartest man in the world. Can Bowers save America from its own remarkable stupidity, and he can he get the dunderheads around him to believe what he says? Produced under the title 3001, Idiocracy also stars Dax Shepard as Bowers's numb-skull lawyer, Stephen Root as a judge, and Terry Crews as Camacho, a former porn star and professional wrestler who is now president of the United States. <b><u>Review</u></b> Now, you can't go into seeing Mike Judge's 'Idiocracy' expecting to see the witty, subtle comedy stylings of 'Office Space'. Idiocracy is a completely different style. This movie's target audience are Maxim magazine reading, beer drinking, Spike TV watching, sit on your couch on the weekends, swearing, sweaty, laugh at someone getting hit in the balls Guys; and if you fit the profile, you will have a gut-wrenching good time. The movie follows Joe Bauers (Luke Wilson) as he gets placed into a military experiment to be frozen for 1 year, but something goes awry and he is awoken in the year 2505. The movie includes many Mike Judge favorites such as David Herman (Office Space) and Steven Root (Office Space, King of the Hill) as well as many other notable actors, such as Maya Rudolph (Saturday Night Live), Dax Shepard (Punk'd), and many others. This movie is vulgar, offensive, and a great satire on today's popular culture. All in all, 'Idiocracy' is a just guy's movie, its as simple as that.

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