
Officer Collins has been spearheading one of the US Army's most secretive experiments to date: the Human Hibernation Project. If successful, the project would store its subjects indefinitely until they are needed most. Their first test subject - Joe Bauers - was not chosen for his superiority. Instead, he's chosen because he's the most average guy in the armed services. But scandal erupts after the experiment takes place - the base is closed, and the president denies any know... (Full plot summary below)
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Officer Collins has been spearheading one of the US Army's most secretive experiments to date: the Human Hibernation Project. If successful, the project would store its subjects indefinitely until they are needed most. Their first test subject - Joe Bauers - was not chosen for his superiority. Instead, he's chosen because he's the most average guy in the armed services. But scandal erupts after the experiment takes place - the base is closed, and the president denies any knowledge of the project - Unfortunately, Joe doesn't wake up in a year, he wakes up in 500 years. But during that time human evolution has taken a dramatic downturn. After waking up, Joe takes a prison-assigned IQ test and finds that he's the smartest guy alive. Awaiting a full presidential pardon if he can solve one of the country's biggest problems - the dwindling plant population, Joe races against time to solve this problem. But he alienates half the country in the process. Can he make things right and escape a rather bizarre execution?
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| Not Coming to a Theater Near YouRumsey TaylorIdiocracy's utter lack of promotion is now something of a minor legend, and it remains perplexing given the film's obvious charms. |
| CinemaBlend.comJoshua TylerFrom start to finish this film is sharp, clever, and downright funny. |
| The Film YapNick RogersThis demented look at destructive mass consumption barely approaches feature length. Still, Mike Judge dots each appealingly cheap scene with spastic sight gags and offers fiendishly hilarious, frighteningly plausible examples of cultural decay. |
| eFilmCritic.comCollin SouterMost of these cartoon-like characters could only come from a mind like Mike Judge, who hasn't lost his ability to make stupidity both alarming and endearing. |
| FilmJerk.comEdward HavensThe theatrical release of Mike Judge's new comedy Idiocracy is one of the most egregious travesties of modern cinema. |
| Filmcritic.comDavid BezansonMany people -- at least, a few people -- have noted the dumbing-down of America, but no one until Judge has blamed it on genetics |
| Lessons of DarknessNick SchagerAn intermittently amusing -- and sometimes lazy -- satire that plays like a so-so episode of Futurama. |
| The A.V. ClubNathan RabinThere's a good chance that Judge's smartly lowbrow Idiocracy will be mistaken for what it's satirizing, but good satire always runs the risk -- of being misunderestimated. |
| Slant MagazineFernando F. CroceIdiocracy is too scattershot and compromised to push the conceptual bleakness beyond the realm of lowbrow comedy, though Judge’s cultural ire remains bracing throughout: For all the characters’ slapsticky imbecility, Judge makes it clear that it’s their docile acceptance (read: political inactivity) that makes them true dumbasses. |
| Los Angeles TimesCarina ChocanoThe plot, naturally, is silly and not exactly bound by logic. But it's Judge's gimlet-eyed knack for nightmarish extrapolation that makes Idiocracy a cathartic delight. |