Idiocracy

Forgive Idiocracy if it comes off as uncomfortably elitist in it’s first ten minutes or so. Anybody who has ever shopped a Wal-Mart, been through high school, worked a minimum wage job, lived in a low-income building or neighborhood, watched BET or MTV, used Myspace, or generally set foot anywhere outside in Duhmerica in the last twenty-five years or so will understand and sympathize with the greater points being made here.

Luke Wilson plays an Army grunt who is tested as being the most absolutely average in the whole of the Armed Forces. As he has no family left and not much in the way of friends either, they select him for a secret program testing cryogenic freezing for long periods of time. Luke and a hooker (played by Maya Rudolph) are supposed to be frozen for one year, but the guy in charge of the project gets busted. Stuck in some secret basement and with no other members of the military aware of their existence, army guy and hooker stay confined in their capsules for 500 years, finally being accidentally awakened to a world that has declined so severely in intelligence that they become the two smartest people alive.



McMerica, fuck yeah

Alright, so the premise is very loose, and the movie is likewise choppy. It doesn’t have the same sustained hilarity as Office Space, but it is still worth a watch for some great satirical riffs on corporate culture and idiotic social trends. There are definitely some gut-busting moments and Mike Judge puts together another pleasantly old-school soundtrack, this time going to a wider source of influences such as blues and motown. The only real problem with it is that in the end it might actually depress and scare you more than it makes you laugh.

Links :

* Idiocracy on Youtube
* Holy Shit, It's Beef Supreme!
* Ow, My Balls!
* The Secretary of Education
* Courtroom Scene
* FOX News
* Brawndo is actually for sale now