So-so attempt at revisiting Sleeper. Unfortunately Mike Judge is no Woody Allen, nor is Woody Allen himself nowadays.
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11/08/07
Idiocracy (2006)
71 %
Reviews Counted: 38 Fresh: 27 Rotten:11 Average Rating: 6.4/10
Consensus:
Idiocracy delivers the hilarity and biting satire that could only come from Mike Judge.
Runtime: 84 mins
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 that goes awry. He wakes up 1000 years in the future, discovering that he's the smartest guy... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph, Dax Shepard, Terry Crews, David Herman
Director: Mike Judge
Screenwriter: Mike Judge, Etan Cohen
Producer: Mike Judge
Screenwriter: Mike Judge
Screenwriter: Mike Judge, Etan Cohen
Producer: Mike Judge
Screenwriter: Mike Judge
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.
11/05/07
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
It's a movie now, but in ten years it will be a historical documentary...
09/07/07
Idiocracy is polemic in search of a punch line or plot, and often finding neither.
06/26/07
An intermittently amusing -- and sometimes lazy -- satire that plays like a so-so episode of Futurama.
01/18/07
Idiocracy’s utter lack of promotion is now something of a minor legend, and it remains perplexing given the film’s obvious charms.
01/16/07
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
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
Forget the fact that you've never heard of this movie. It's one of the funniest movies of 2006.
01/11/07
...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
[E]ven more trenchant, more damning, more -- hell, I'll say it -- revolutionary than Office Space.
01/09/07
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
A curiosa premissa rende algumas boas piadas, mas, depois de algum tempo, estas acabam se tornando repetitivas e a narrativa perde o ritmo.
12/30/06
Even if the film contains the single biggest laugh I've had this year at the movies, Idiocracy is a terribly muddled affair.
12/25/06
The movie is bracing for its bile but ultimately more frustrating than funny.
10/03/06
There's about 15 minutes' worth of laughs here; the problem is that the film is 84 minutes long.
09/30/06
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