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Idiocracy (2006)

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Reviews Counted:38

Fresh:28

Rotten:10

Average Rating:6.5/10

Consensus: Idiocracy delivers the hilarity and biting satire that could only come from Mike Judge.

Runtime: 84 mins

Genre: Comedies

US Box Office: $313,505

Synopsis: Writer-director Mike Judge's ("Office Space") unique brand of social observational humor this time examines an average guy (Luke Wilson) who volunteers to be the subject of a hibernation experiment... Writer-director Mike Judge's ("Office Space") unique brand of social observational humor this time examines an average guy (Luke Wilson) who volunteers to be the subject of a hibernation experiment that goes awry. He wakes up 1000 years in the future, discovering that he's the smartest guy on the planet. -- © 20th Century Fox [More]

Starring: Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph, Dax Shepard, Terry Crews

Starring: Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph, Dax Shepard, Terry Crews, David Herman, Robert Musgrave, Stephen Root, Sara Rue

Director: Mike Judge

Director: Mike Judge
Screenwriter: Mike Judge, Etan Cohen
Producer: Mike Judge
Screenwriter: Mike Judge
Studio: 20th Century Fox

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Full Review Source: Washington Post | comment Comment
05/07/09
Ann Hornaday
Ann Hornaday
Washington Post
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Even if some of the gags about dumb people start becoming tiresome, it's linked to a sensation of discomfort that should make us legitimately worry about the direction we're headed in.

Full Review Source: Window to the Movies | comment Comment
08/18/08
Jeffrey Chen
Jeffrey Chen
Window to the Movies

So-so attempt at revisiting Sleeper. Unfortunately Mike Judge is no Woody Allen, nor is Woody Allen himself nowadays.

Full Review Source: rec.arts.movies.reviews | comment 1 Comment
11/08/07
Louis Proyect
Louis Proyect
rec.arts.movies.reviews

You have to love a movie that imagines a dystopic future in which the U.S. President is a former wrestler and porn star named Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho.

Full Review Source: Projection Booth | comment Comment
11/05/07
Rob Humanick
Rob Humanick
Projection Booth

I look forward to a time when I can safely laugh at Idiocracy, but that time may not come any time soon.

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
09/24/07
Rob Gonsalves
Rob Gonsalves
eFilmCritic.com

It's a movie now, but in ten years it will be a historical documentary...

Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed | comment Comment
09/07/07
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Cinema Crazed

Idiocracy is an unabashedly elitist film that includes fart jokes.

Full Review Source: Cinematical | comment 1 Comment
01/24/07
Jette Kernion
Jette Kernion
Cinematical

An intermittently amusing -- and sometimes lazy -- satire that plays like a so-so episode of Futurama.

Full Review Source: Lessons of Darkness | comment 1 Comment
01/18/07
Nick Schager
Nick Schager
Lessons of Darkness

Idiocracy’s utter lack of promotion is now something of a minor legend, and it remains perplexing given the film’s obvious charms.

Full Review Source: Not Coming to a Theater Near You | comment Comment
01/16/07
Rumsey Taylor
Rumsey Taylor
Not Coming to a Theater Near You

A cautionary, sci-fi comedy which envisions a miserable dystopia half a millenia in the future where humanity has degenerated instead of advanced.

Full Review Source: NewsBlaze | comment Comment
01/12/07
Kam Williams
Kam Williams
NewsBlaze

We may look back at this film in 500 years and realize that Mike Judge was better able to predict the future than Arthur C. Clarke did with 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Full Review Source: 7M Pictures | comment 2 Comments
01/11/07
Kevin Carr
Kevin Carr
7M Pictures

Forget the fact that you've never heard of this movie. It's one of the funniest movies of 2006.

Full Review Source: cinemaobsession.com | comment Comment
01/11/07
Jeff Otto
Jeff Otto
cinemaobsession.com

...seems more like 'Selected Scenes from 'Idiocracy'' than it does an actual film. Still, there are some genuine laughs to be had here, and Judge's vision of a future dominated entirely by morons is memorably bizarre.

Full Review Source: Kalamazoo Gazette | comment Comment
01/11/07
James Sanford
James Sanford
Kalamazoo Gazette

[E]ven more trenchant, more damning, more -- hell, I'll say it -- revolutionary than Office Space.

Full Review Source: Flick Filosopher | comment 1 Comment
01/09/07
MaryAnn Johanson
MaryAnn Johanson
Flick Filosopher

The film stinks.

Full Review Source: EDGE Boston | comment 14 Comments
01/09/07
Phil Hall
Phil Hall
EDGE Boston

By refusing to distance itself from its targets, Mike Judge's brand of satire risks being mistaken for what it's satirizing.

Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | comment 1 Comment
01/08/07
Fernando F. Croce
Fernando F. Croce
Slant Magazine

Trust me, it’s a blast!

Full Review Source: JoBlo's Movie Emporium | comment 2 Comments
01/05/07
JoBlo
JoBlo
JoBlo's Movie Emporium

A curiosa premissa rende algumas boas piadas, mas, depois de algum tempo, estas acabam se tornando repetitivas e a narrativa perde o ritmo.

Full Review Source: Cinema em Cena | comment Comment
12/30/06
Pablo Villaca
Pablo Villaca
Cinema em Cena

Even if the film contains the single biggest laugh I've had this year at the movies, Idiocracy is a terribly muddled affair.

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
12/25/06
Brian Orndorf
Brian Orndorf
eFilmCritic.com

The movie is bracing for its bile but ultimately more frustrating than funny.

Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | comment 4 Comments
10/03/06
J. R. Jones
J. R. Jones
Chicago Reader
 
 
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