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From Mike Judge one of the creative minds behind "Beavis and Butt-Head" "King of the Hill" and Office Space comes an outrageous sci-fi comedy that'll make you think twice about the future of mankind.Meet Joe Bowers (Luke Wilson). He's not the sharpest tool in the shed. But when a government hibernation experiment goes awry Bowers awakens in the year 2505 to find a society so dumbed-down by mass commercialism and mindless TV programming that he's become the smartest guy on the planet. Now it's up to an average Joe to get human evolution back on track!Filled with razor-sharp sarcasm and outrageous sight gags Idiocracy will make you laugh out loud whether you're an absolute genius or a complete idiot!Extras:Anamorphic3 trailers5 deleted scenesFeatures: Outtakes (Five deleted scenes: Babies - Trashy Guy & Girl in Truck / Girlfriend #1 / Girlfriend #2 / Museum of Fart / Joe in Whitehouse Looks Out)System Requirements:Run Time: 84 minsFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Rating: R UPC: 024543401797 Manufacturer No: 2240179

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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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Date: 2008-07-06
Idiocracy
I'm not sure if this movie is so funny it's scary, or so scary it's funny. A side-splittingly sober comment on the future of America.

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Date: 2008-06-23
Son and husband love this!
We first saw this movie on one of the pay channels and my son and husband loved it so much, I decided to get it for them on DVD so they could watch it whenever they want. Guess it's a guy thing...

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Date: 2008-06-20
Pee yourself laughing
This is by far one of the funnist flims I have seen in a long time. And oh so true.

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Date: 2008-06-18
Brilliant, Bittersweet Satire -- "Office Space After Devolution"
Insightful observation is the key to good satire. In the case of "Idiocracy", the observation was postively inspired. The finest satire wraps intelligence with wit. In the case of "Idiocracy", wit and intelligence are one and the same.

About four years old and only now being seen widely, the satire is still perfectly--even more appropriately--contemporary.

Corporate sponsorship, advertising "buzz" words and product placement are so effectively skewered that all but the most indoctrinated will see the assumption of stupidity on which they are based.

Buy this movie! Watch first for the fun of it. If you find it anywhere near as good as I do, you'll watch again and again finding deeper intelligence with each viewing. The rather cheezy wide-scale depections of the idiocy are like most episodes of the Simpsons--more thought in one small part than in typical entire works of similar genre.

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Date: 2008-06-12
Our future?
This could very well be our future here in the United States, IF the people that actively choose to be ignorant have their way with our future.

I can really see this happening. Honestly...

This is for the Fox News programmed and bible sniffing masses and the people that think that 'it can't happen here'. IT SURE CAN! And it is happening right now!

Fighting evolution: I see the marks of evolution SCREAMING from the history of living things on this planet.

Ecological destruction: I see it ALL AROUND ME! We are eventually going to destroy this planets ability to support life. Then what? What will the people that have all the big money from the profits getting us there going to do then? They die just like we do.

Collective ignorance: Sexism, racism, ageism, political and religious dogma surrounds us. It invades so much of our daily lives (and I don't even watch Fox News)! Fear Obama because he's black. I've got a better one: Fear McCain because he's insulated from the economic damage that 8 years of Bush-o-nomics has wrought on this country.

Watch the movie. See what runaway capitalism would look like. See what our future very well could look like if we don't act now...

This planet is screaming for change...