Idiocracy
Private Joe Bowers has just been an average individual all his life until he partook in a military experiment that transports him 1000 years in the future where he wakes up to realize he has been the smartest person afterall.
January 10, 1980 in Sweetwater, Texas, USA
12 November 1983, Austin, Texas, USA
July 18, 1964 in Freeport, Texas, USA
28 December 1970, Bryan, Texas, USA
15 August 1983, Miami, Florida, USA
February 28, 2017
Here we are, watching TPTB water the crops with Brawndo EVERY SINGLE DAY and a substantial chunk of the populace actively wondering why the rest of us are freaking out.
September 24, 2010
This demented look at destructive mass consumption barely approaches feature length. Still, Mike Judge dots each appealingly cheap scene with spastic sight gags and offers fiendishly hilarious, frighteningly plausible examples of cultural decay.
October 03, 2006
The movie is bracing for its bile but ultimately more frustrating than funny.
November 08, 2007
So-so attempt at revisiting Sleeper. Unfortunately Mike Judge is no Woody Allen, nor is Woody Allen himself nowadays.
September 05, 2006
Judge has a gift for delivering brutal satire in the trappings of low comedy and for making heroes out of ordinary people whose humanity makes them suspect in a world where every inch of space, including mental, is mediated.
May 07, 2009
If the world is going to hell in any number of handbaskets -- as Judge so acutely demonstrates that it is -- you might as well hitch a ride in his.
September 05, 2006
It's a low-boil affair from the Office Space auteur that wears out its dumb-and-dumbest playbook early on.
September 08, 2006
Working on a sprawling canvas, Judge fills the screen with visual jokes, throwaway gags, and incisive commentary on the ubiquity of advertising.
April 14, 2016
The film is completely unique and its sci-fi bent is fully realized in a way that some sci-fi films fail to capture.
November 05, 2007
You have to love a movie that imagines a dystopic future in which the U.S. President is a former wrestler and porn star named Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho.
October 04, 2016
The whole film has a drab, somnambulant rhythm. Intentional or not, this is part of its genius.
August 18, 2008
Even if some of the gags about dumb people start becoming tiresome, it's linked to a sensation of discomfort that should make us legitimately worry about the direction we're headed in.
