Idiocracy
January 26, 2007
Rated: R Runtime: 84 min Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
In the very near future smart people, anyone with an IQ above 130, will stop breeding, and everyone with an IQ below 100 won’t. This is the setup for Mike Judge’s latest film and at times it’s funny as can be, but at others I just wanted it to end so I could go to sleep.
Anywhoo, the plot as thin as it is goes a little like this… Pvt. Joe Bauers (Wilson) is an average Army private with average intelligence, build, blood pressure and heart rate. In short Joe is Average, so the Army selects him for a new project designed to deep freeze a soldier until he is needed. Joe along with a hooker named Rita (Rudolph) are placed into hibernation chambers with the assurance that they will only be in there for a period of 1 year; of course things don’t work out that way and they wind up being frozen for 500 years (ignore the fact that’s there no power and you’ll be fine) and they wake up in a F’d up time in history.
It would seem we’d turned REALLY stupid over this period and idiots run everything around. Hospitals use a touch pad order system like a fast food restaurant, the best show on TV is a show called Ow my Nuts, and the presidential cabinet is recognized by the size and color of their bling.
I could go on but I would spoil what little of the plot there is, so I’ll head instead in the direction of *Why* I chose to give this movie 2 stars. I love Office Space so I really expected a lot from this movie, turns out I should have set my sights just a wee bit lower and who knows if I had I may have been giving it 3… Nah, crap is crap!
The jokes, when they hit are extremely funny, but the ones that miss, miss by a mile and you wish this POS would end. I’m not a fan of Luke Wilson or Shovel faced Rudolph, or even the 3rd stringer in this game of miss after miss Dax Shepard… why sugar coat it, I hated the cast about as much as any cast I’ve ever hated! That is not to say I didn’t laugh - Idiocracy has a few moments that will have you rolling in the floor and had this concept been a skit on SNL or Mad TV (with a different cast that is) it would have been friggin hysterical, but 84 minutes of it felt like an eternity.
If you’re a fan of Judge and you can watch movies in sections and not be disappointed when a scene goes south every 10 minutes, give Idiocracy a shot. I personally felt this film was actually the first step to making the vision Judge paints, a reality. I took an IQ test prior to seeing it and I was above 140, by the time it was over I had trouble opening a child proof bottle and I peed myself twice while trying to unzip my coat. Thanks a lot Mike Judge for creating a movie dumber than the title itself.
Seen it? How many stars do you give it?
(1 votes, average: 3 out of 5)
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