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Idiocracy - New to DVD

I have to admit that I am a big fan of Mike Judge. I was a “Beavis and Butthead” fan from the start and love Office Space, but Judge’s newest effort is lacking much.

Luke Wilson plays an average soldier who is selected in a military project to “dry freeze” a human into hibernation. The test is supposedly for one year, but after much hullabaloo, Joe is forgotten and ends up waking up 500 years in the future. What Joe finds is that the human population has become so stupid due to over commercializing and bad TV that he has become the smartest person on the planet. Now he has to get the rest of humanity on track. Sound good? It isn’t!

While I can appreciate a one-joke movie I feel that the joke has to be funny and the premise is, but the execution is severely lacking. I’m not sure what exactly went wrong, but the laughs are few and far between and mostly you sit in agony of how dumb these characters really are. On the other hand this film should test well in eastern Kentucky. You also get an overdose of the consumer comedy. For example Starbucks becomes a massage parlor and Carl’s Jr. (or Hardees’ here) food is served via ATMs and also gives relationship advice. Again, while all this sounds funny, when you see it, it isn’t. I was, however, informed that this movie is funnier if you’re stoned, but so was The Wall.

I do want to state that the first time I saw Office Space, I didn’t like it as much as I do now. What changed you ask? I later had a job in an office building. So by default I should be lobotomized to enjoy this movie. I really don’t have much more to say about this stinker except, Idiocracy does have much potential to be a telling satire of where our society is headed, but does it have to hurt so much?

“SNL’s” Maya Rudolph, Dax Shepard (Employee of the Month) and Terry Crews (“Everybody Hates Chris”) co-star.
DVD features are also light with only a handful of deleted scenes and that is it.

3/10
George
Idiocracy is available to rent at Wild and Wooly, but do yourself a favor and just get Office Space again. You’ll thank me later.

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