Review of Idiocracy (2006) by Stuart K — 05 Aug 2013

Written and directed by Mike Judge, creator of Beavis and Butt-head and King of the Hill, his previous foray into directing, Office Space (1999) had become a big cult hit, to the point where Fox decided to give him another stab at directing his own film.

Judge created this satirical sci-fi romp, which says a lot about how the world is going, but hardly anyone got to see it. Fox didn't know to promote it, and dumped it with no promotion, which is just criminal.

Corporal Joe Bauers (Luke Wilson), who works in the army library, is asked to take part in a suspended animation experiment for a year, along with prostitute Rita (Maya Rudolph) accept, and are put into pods.

But, due to a scandal, the project is forgotten about, and Joe and Rita remain in suspended animation for 500 years, by which time, the human population has become increasingly dumb, and can't do simple tasks.

He ends up in trouble with the law for not paying a hospital bill, with dumb lawyer Frito Pendejo (Dax Shepard) for company, while Rita's prostitution comes in handy in this seedy and non-too-bright society, while Joe just wants to go back to his own time.

There are a lot of original ideas on display, and it's a sci-fi film which might actually be true if we don't change the way we live and learn, Judge is actually a good director, and he should do it more, as he has a funny view on the world.