It’s a low-boil affair from the Office Space auteur that wears out its dumb-and-dumbest playbook early on.
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09/05/06
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
Idiocracy ultimately sputters out, managing to go only so far as an engine built on buffoonery without adequate brains can handle.
09/16/06
The delivery in Idiocracy is frequently flat, but its vision is dead-on.
09/23/06
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
A couple of good laughs, but mostly a big mess.
09/05/06
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.
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
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 CriticBy refusing to distance itself from its targets, Mike Judge's brand of satire risks being mistaken for what it's satirizing.
01/08/07
I look forward to a time when I can safely laugh at Idiocracy, but that time may not come any time soon.
09/24/07
The film stinks.
01/09/07
The theatrical release of Mike Judge's new comedy Idiocracy is one of the most egregious travesties of modern cinema.
09/04/06
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.
11/05/07
Trust me, it’s a blast!
01/05/07
[E]ven more trenchant, more damning, more -- hell, I'll say it -- revolutionary than Office Space.
01/09/07
The movie is bracing for its bile but ultimately more frustrating than funny.
10/03/06
Idiocracy is an unabashedly elitist film that includes fart jokes.
01/24/07
Mike Judge's Idiocracy is absolutely a satire for its time. What Judge is less sure of here than in his previous, perfectly pitched live-action comedy Office Space, is how to build a complete movie around his key ideas.
09/01/06
Top CriticOften stingingly funny -- and an undeserving resident of the summer's-end movie dumping ground.
09/05/06
...consistently entertaining and sporadically hilarious...
09/01/06
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August 31, 2006:
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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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