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From:Luke Wilson , Maya Rudolph , Dax Shepard , Terry Crews , Anthony 'Citric' Campos , TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT , Mike Judge , 20th Century Fox ,
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2 of 21 customers found the following review helpful:
 Bad, real real bad..., 2008-05-31
Really? Honestly? If you have but one percent of a brain in your head, you'll stay away from this monstrosity. Horribly acted, horribly thought out and just plain horrible. I had hopes from the preview, but the preview fails to show the stupidity that is this movie. Perhpas the irony is lost on me. Perhaps this is just bad satire. I don't know, but what I do know is that the actors lost me as a fan for participating in such drivel.
5 of 5 customers found the following review helpful:
 Fantastic! Surprisingly influential, 2008-05-30
I thought that I was going to watch a little of this movie one night and a little the next. When I almost peed my pants laughing at the DVD menu I knew that I was going to watch the whole thing.
I have thought about this movie constantly ever since I watched it - and it has been about three weeks. I recommend it highly. It has really been a perception altering movie. As I look around I see certain elements of Idiocracy's future coming to be very quickly - the qualities of TV shows, the sheer size of new malls. Fast forward 500 years and...
Mike Judge saw it years before I did and encapsulated it brilliantly.
7 of 7 customers found the following review helpful:
Not far from the truth, 2008-05-18
Many will dismiss this movie as typical 20-something, male-dominated, stupid humor. Those people are the same close-minded fools who dismiss Fight Club as simply a bunch of guys fighting one another. This movie, when you peel back the layers, is much, much deeper.
The 21st century, as described in Idiocracy, is a crucial turning point for civilization. It's a time when human evolution bucks the trend of natural selection, and rewards the morons who simply reproduce the most. It's a world where the constant barrage of MTV-style editing in mainstream entertainment, video games, internet bombardment (i.e. adware, spyware, flashing technology), and the frenetic, over-stimulated daily life has turned most of society into blathering idiots. It's sad to say, but it's not far from the truth.
Much like other dytopian-themed books and movies, Idiocracy concentrates on an exaggerated future that is not difficult to imagine. It satirizes current society and expands upon the negative aspects plaguing us all.
Joe Bowers (Luke Wilson) is an average Army soldier in 2005 who agrees to participate in a human hibernation experiment, and along with Joe, a deal is made to get a comparable female to participate. Rita (Maya Rudolph) is a prostitute who is bought out by the government from her pimp Upgrayedd (Two D's for a double-dose of pimping). After the one year dry freeze, they were to be awoken and the experiment could have been analyzed, but that didn't work out. It is only when the Great Garbage Avalanche of 2505 takes place that Joe and Rita wake up to a drastically changed world.
The world of 2505 is decaying in every way possible. Buildings are torn down and destroyed, some held together by large ropes. Economic issues have long since become moot, as conglomerations like Costco, Starbucks, and a renamed FuddRuckers (it's what we all first thought of when we saw the name) have taken over everything. Even English has degraded to a point where eloquence is considered "pompous and faggy" (replaced with a slang combo of valley girl, hillbilly, ghetto slang, and grunts). Daily lives are consumed by constant idiotic entertainment on huge televisions that resemeble how I envisioned the telescreens of 1984, but without Big Brother. Crowd entertainment has been replaced by gladiator-type encounters mixed with something similar to the Running Man battles.
I'd go on and on about the incredibly funny details of the movie, where the corporations and retards have taken over every aspect of civilization, but there are just too many to mention, and it's somewhat depressing.
2 of 2 customers found the following review helpful:
I think it's an important movie, 2008-05-14
This movie deserves a lot more attention than it's gotten so far. I ran across it accidentally, and now I'm on a mission to get friends to watch it. It's a super cheesy movie, but it stimulates great discussions on serious matters. I wish this had a pg-13 version so that I could show it to my students. I think it makes a lot of great points about how evolution works, (especially how it's not always about survival of the fittest- it's really about who's the most successful at passing on their DNA) and the dangers of a society that places entertainment above all other goals. It is way too vulgar to show in class, but it led to a great conversation with my teenage son.
4 of 5 customers found the following review helpful:
 Average Movie with a Thought-Provoking Message, 2008-05-14
My husband and I watched Idiocracy for a second time last weekend. Overall, the film is okay. There are places where I laughed out loud. It is a "funny-stupid" film. Not a great epic, but not complete trash either. A good choice for an evening when you need to give your brain a rest.
However, this is also a "smart, funny-stupid" move. Its message stays with you. 500 years into the future, today's average Joe will be the smartest man in the world because the human race will devolve. Stereotypical "dumb" people will multiply faster than love-struck bunnies; the movers, thinkers, and doers will continue to put children off so long that they will not be able to have them. America's number one show will be "Ow, My Balls" (and if you've every seen Jerry Springer, Big Brother, The Real Life, Fear Factor, Jackass, etc., you KNOW Ow, My Balls is next); language will continue to deteriorate until it is some kind of street-valley-funk-hiphop conglomeration; technology and the very ability to make or repair anything will disappear; the president of the United States will be pro-wrestler; garbage will be piled so high that landslides threaten major cities; and corporations and advertising will rule the world. The extremely scary thing is, none of this seems completely unrealistic, or even that far off.
I remember a magazine interview several years ago with the Secretary of Education. At that time he was advocating the removal of the word "antelope" from all textbooks, to be replaced with the word "deer". He felt that word antelope was too hard for America's children and that it was a somewhat useless word, since there were no antelope on this continent. Which I believe would come as somewhat of a shock to the millions of American who live "where the deer and the ANTELOPE play!"
This movie will make you think. Which is what a movie should do.
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