It's what movie goers crave.
Recently it has come to my attention that not everyone has seen the film Idiocracy.
This is as understandable as it is unacceptable.
It's understandable because this is a Mike Judge film and for some reason studios keep making his films, then refuse to advertise or even give them a wide release. This happened with Judge's 1999 masterpiece Office Space (the undisputed best office comedy in existence). In the case of Idiocracy, the studio sat on the film for a year before releasing it to only six small markets.
It's unacceptable that anyone hasn't seen Idiocracy because it's the smartest comedy about the stupidification of the human race.
The film starts with a brilliant eight-minute pseudo documentary. In the 20th century, mankind is without natural predators, so instead of evolution favouring the smartest and the strongest, it simply favours any moron who doesn't wear a condom.
From there we have the star of the film, Luke Wilson, who is delightfully cast as the most "average Joe" and is therefore chosen for a military experiment to be frozen, then thawed a year later. Instead, he wakes up 500 years into a future, where he is by far the smartest person on the planet.
The next 80 minutes has Mike throwing visual gags aplenty on the screen combined with rather biting satire of a world we can all to easily imagine coming to fruition. We've all thought about where our reality-TV-instant-gratification-consumer-society is going and this movie plays to that fear/eventuality in a pretty funny way.
Idiocracy is available online for your instant viewing pleasure.
