There's about 15 minutes' worth of laughs here; the problem is that the film is 84 minutes long.
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09/30/06
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
The delivery in Idiocracy is frequently flat, but its vision is dead-on.
09/23/06
Idiocracy ultimately sputters out, managing to go only so far as an engine built on buffoonery without adequate brains can handle.
09/16/06
...each laugh is tempered with the unsettling realization that [Judge's] vision of mankind's future might not be too far off the mark.
09/13/06
Working on a sprawling canvas, Judge fills the screen with visual jokes, throwaway gags, and incisive commentary on the ubiquity of advertising.
09/08/06
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
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
A couple of good laughs, but mostly a big mess.
09/05/06
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 CriticIt’s a low-boil affair from the Office Space auteur that wears out its dumb-and-dumbest playbook early on.
09/05/06
Often stingingly funny -- and an undeserving resident of the summer's-end movie dumping ground.
09/05/06
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
The theatrical release of Mike Judge's new comedy Idiocracy is one of the most egregious travesties of modern cinema.
09/04/06
Most 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
Ow! My brain!
09/02/06
From start to finish this film is sharp, clever, and downright funny.
09/01/06
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 CriticSo puerile and gross that though the movie wants to say something about the dumbing down of America, it winds up not so much commentary as part of the problem.
09/01/06
...consistently entertaining and sporadically hilarious...
09/01/06
Latest News for Idiocracy
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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