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DVD: IDIOCRACY (2006)

Judging by the title of this movie, one might not be surprised that, well, it is a little idiotic. I had not heard of Idiocracy previous to recently listening to an interview on NPR with Mike Judge. But after the interview, I thought I’d take a shot and check it out.

For those who don’t know, Judge is the creator of shows such as Beavis and Butthead and King of the Hill and the movie cult favorite Office Space. So Idiocracy should be up there as well, right?

Not exactly.

The premise is that Joe Bauers (Luke Wilson), an army librarian, is used in an hibernation experiment along with a private sector woman, Rita (Maya Ruldolph). The goal is of course to preserve top army leaders, of who Bauers is not, but instead they wake up 500 years later to everyone being…you guessed it: idiots.

The bigger picture of this movie is one worth playing with, but I found the idiots to be so be so idiotic that it was annoying. Of course I didn’t expect much from this movie, and there were some times I was laughing along, but when it was over I couldn’t believe I just spent time watching it.

But. I did watch the whole thing. For whatever that’s worth.