Even if the film contains the single biggest laugh I've had this year at the movies, Idiocracy is a terribly muddled affair.
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12/25/06
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.
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... [More]
Reviews for Idiocracy
Judge has a gift for delivering brutal satire in the trappings of low comedy and for making heroes out of ordinary people whose humanity makes them suspect in a world where every inch of space, including mental, is mediated.
09/05/06
Top CriticMost 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.
09/03/06
Many people -- at least, a few people -- have noted the dumbing-down of America, but no one until Judge has blamed it on genetics
09/06/06
...consistently entertaining and sporadically hilarious...
09/01/06
The theatrical release of Mike Judge's new comedy Idiocracy is one of the most egregious travesties of modern cinema.
09/04/06
It's a movie now, but in ten years it will be a historical documentary...
09/07/07
By refusing to distance itself from its targets, Mike Judge's brand of satire risks being mistaken for what it's satirizing.
01/08/07
...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.
01/11/07
Forget the fact that you've never heard of this movie. It's one of the funniest movies of 2006.
01/11/07
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.
08/18/08
Idiocracy is an unabashedly elitist film that includes fart jokes.
01/24/07
Trust me, it’s a blast!
01/05/07
From start to finish this film is sharp, clever, and downright funny.
09/01/06
A cautionary, sci-fi comedy which envisions a miserable dystopia half a millenia in the future where humanity has degenerated instead of advanced.
01/12/07
So-so attempt at revisiting Sleeper. Unfortunately Mike Judge is no Woody Allen, nor is Woody Allen himself nowadays.
11/08/07
Seriously, no one gets rednecks, metalheads and morons quite like Judge, who manages here to revel in stupidity while effectively critiquing it.
09/05/06
The delivery in Idiocracy is frequently flat, but its vision is dead-on.
09/23/06
[E]ven more trenchant, more damning, more -- hell, I'll say it -- revolutionary than Office Space.
01/09/07
Hmm, it's tough to figure out if this is Judge's joking way of figuring out who's the more evolved lowlife of the future.
09/04/06
Latest News for Idiocracy
August 31, 2006:
Critical Consensus: "Crank" Is Well-Ranked; "Illusionist" Is Magic, "Crossover" Is An Air-Ball, "Wicker Man" Gets Burned
This week at the movies, we've got hoopsters with big dreams ("Crossover," starring Anthony Mackie), scary goings-on on remote islands ("The Wicker Man,"... More...
August 30, 2006:
"Crank," Wicker Man," "Idiocracy" Won't Be Screened For Critics -- Guess The Tomatometer!
The studios have been hiding movies from those pesky scribes all year long, but this time they've outdone themselves. This week, three movies won't be screened before getting... More...
July 26, 2006:
The setting has changed but Judge's keen satirical sensibilities remain the same. 
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