Sadly it isn't taking five hundred years
Added 10/30/2009
Imagine a world where the government goes in debt to destroy perfectly good cars. Imagine a world where the government tries to take over healthcare and when the over-a-thousand-pages bill fails to gain traction, they replace it with a bill just shy of two thousand pages and think it's an improvement, and we can't read it to save our lives, even though we may have to some day. Imagine utopia created by printing money. OOPS, that's what our federal government is doing!
Imagine a city where they paint bike trail signs on the pavement down the middle of arterial streets to encourage bikers (the pedal variety) to bike in with traffic. OOPS, that's where I live!
Imagine a school system where the teachers, who get paid in US money and have the American flag flying over the building, have the kindergarteners singing John Lennon's "Imagine" and imagining their country away. OOPS, that's reality for me!
I really belive that about half our citizenry simply doesn't know what it takes to have a civilization, and they don't care that they don't know. And a huge segment of those people actually are stupid enough to romanticize how great it would be if it all went away.
So, after that rant I'll say that even with the crass, vulgar, and potty humor that I usually don't gravitate towards I just had to sigh and think "right on" when this movie was over. It just seems to be coming true even more quickly than Mike Judge imagined. Maybe more like 2105.
I expected a low budget movie, so I was rather pleasantly suprised at the matte paintings and some genuine attempts to show what our society would look like after a few more centuries of decline. Basically, a culture of people with the intellectual capacity of cave-people running on the last fumes of the civilization they inherited. So, the sets and effects were actually better than I expected, and the actors did pretty fair job too. And, there are enough sight gags and things that go by really fast that it would stand up to a repeat viewing.
This isn't a perfect movie or even close, but I'm surprised it didn't get a wider audience, but was rather an anomaly that I just stumbed into and decided to watch. If only it wasn't so close to being a documentary.
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Sometimes the Truth is Funny
Added 10/24/2009
What can you say about this movie? Is it satire if it is really true? As someone who works on the Labor and Delivery ward, there is more truth in this film than most people want to believe. Funny movie! Watch it and see where the world is heading.
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Idiocracy on Point
Added 10/18/2009
Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, Kansas, Kentucky, Georgia, Tennessee. If you've ever lived or traveled through any of these states then you will recognize the cast of characters in Idiocracy. This is the best depiction of the people who live and thrive in states where their best times of their lives were spent in 8th grade and everything they know they truly learned in Kindergarten. This is a must see movie for people concerned with the direction the country has taken - especially educators whom my kids are convinced can roll back the tide of idiocracy that has gripped our nation since Fox News and Jerry Springer took to the airwaves!
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worst movie ever
Added 10/17/2009
I should be able to sue Mike Judge and everyone involved in this film for the 90 minutes stolen from my life.
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Stupid smarts. (3.5 stars)
Added 10/15/2009
Mike Judge, director of the cult classic "Office Space" as well as the creator of TV's "Beavis & Butthead" and "King of the Hill," delivers perhaps his most outlandish and most imaginative work to date in "Idiocracy." Luke Wilson ("Old School") and Maya Rudolph ("Away We Go") play subjects of a military experiment gone wrong who find themselves waking up in the year 2505, when mankind has devolved to the point of uselessness and near-extinction, brought on by needless over-breeding, poor dietary choices and mind-numbing television. Wilson plays the slacker and Rudolph a prostitute, and both turn out to be the strongest and smartest in a world gone terribly, terribly wrong.
"Idiocracy" is the kind of wacky yet centered cautionary tale that only the mind of Mike Judge could produce, but unfortunately loses steam half way through when its narrative is given nowhere to go, giving way to a slightly clichéd Hollywood ending that doesn't quite gel with the overall tone of the rest of the movie. It's a shame that the film bogs itself down in simplicity when much of the material at hand is rife with social commentary and oh-so subtle jabs at its viewer as well as its production company, Twentieth Century Fox (who, in turn, abused the film so badly that it was an inevitable flop). There's heavy usage of CGI to convey a trash avalanche as well as a monster-truck jam of sorts that gives the movie an unintentionally cartoonish look and feel. Surprisingly, though, it works in the film's favor, giving the film a wacky tone when it could easily slide into gloomier territory. It also doesn't hurt to have left-field cameos from the likes of Justin Long, Stephen Root and Thomas Haden Church, either.
In the end, it's a film with bold ideas that doesn't quite reach its potential. Still, though, like much of Judge's other work, it will have you thinking and questioning the world around you. Is "Idiocracy" ahead of the curve, foreshadowing the shape of things to come? Well, only time will tell. As for now, enjoy it for the sublimely ridiculous comedy that it is.
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Happy in Miami
Added 11/4/2009
Loved this comdey. Several of the actors in this movie, were in the movie "Waiting".
Very funny movie. I would recommend it highly. As always, great service from Amazon.
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GUT BUSTING FUNNY!
Added 10/2/2009
I love Dax to begin with and he plays a great role in this movie about prisons. It's hilarious! A must see comedy!
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Really funny movie!
Added 6/15/2009
I love this movie and I can't get enough of it. I was really excited to see Amazon had it so cheap! I've been meaning to own it for a while. There are so many amazing actors in it and the writing is perfect, making it the perfect comedy for anyone with a morbid sense of humor!
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