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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Already halfway there!, 4 Aug 2007
If you're in the mood for sharp dose of intelligent satire then Idiocracy is the movie for you. I'd never heard of it until I gave it a rent and it's wall to wall hilarious, I kid you not.
Luke Wilson plays magnificently average Army guy Joe Bowers, who is encouraged to take part in a hibernation experiment because of his complete ordinariness. Along with Rita, an equally average hooker (!), he is sent to sleep in a large incubator with the intention of being woken up in a year. But during his slumber there is a scandal on the base and it's closed down, the incubators forgotten about.
Flash forward 500 years and the human race has been incredibly dumbed-down, following the orders of super-conglomerates, talking in a warped language of unintelligible slang syntax, wanting nothing more than to sit in front of a big screen TV and watch moronic shows while being bombarded with commercials for unessential products while the planet turns into a giant trash heap. Doesn't sound like it could ever happen could it? Breaking free of his incubator and let loose in this strange world, Joe now finds himself the most intelligent person alive, but instead of using this newfound talent to make friends and make the world a better place he is shunned by society for being 'faggy'. As Lisa Simpson once put it, as intelligence goes up, happiness goes down.
We really do live in a world where the REAL brains, scientists, doctors and honest leaders are cast aside to make way for footballers, movie-stars and backstabbing politicians. Eerie foreshadowing, no doubt about it.
Desperate to get back to his own time, Joe teams up with Rita to find a supposed time machine. But he is made 'Secretary of the Interior' by wrestling champion, porn-star extraordinaire and President of the United States Camancho. The country is the middle of a devastating dust-bowl since no crops are growing. But that's because they are being fed with Brawndo (Gatorade) because the Brawndo cooperation deemed water a threat to their profits and bought the rights to it. A problem easily solved. But who's going to believe that?
It's a shame this film didn't find legs in the cinemas, but like Mike Judge's other cult hit, Office Space, I'm sure it will find an audience on DVD. Judge seems to have a strange, unpredictable sense of humor. I'm a big fan of King of the Hill and Daria and if you are too then you should definitely check out Idiocracy. After all, it's fun for us intelligent folks to laugh at the dumb. Though I fear we are fighting a losing battle.
And how can you turn down any movie with a character called 'Beef Supreme'?
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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Sharp, satirical, chilling. And utterly hilarious., 16 April 2007
This is the best film I've seen in a long time, and it's surely destined for cult status.
It presents a view of the future which is totally opposite from the conventional hi-tech Utopian vision. The world's population consists entirely of puerile idiots who haven't a clue about anything. The attention to detail in the way the moronic goings-on are depicted is quite incredible - kind of reminded me of the Fifth Element in some respects.
The cinematography is also rather beautiful in a melancholic way, even though the world it's portraying is poisonous, artificial and utterly unwholesome. The "garbage avalanche" scene is awesome.
Highly recommended. I rented this at the weekend and have had to purchase it immediately - I can see myself watching this over and over.
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Fantastic!, 22 Jul 2007
Most sci-fi seems to paint a nice, happy picture of the future, but I really find this unlikely.
Idiocracy paints the sort of future I think is far more likely, whilst being very, very amusing.
How could you possibly say no to a movie that contains the surgeon general's warning of: "Warning: The Surgeon General has one lung and a voicebox but he could still kick your sorry ass"?
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