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Idiocracy (2006)

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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.
 

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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... 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]

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

DVD Info

Release:

Apr 3, 2008

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Keep Case
  • Widescreen

Audio:

  • Dolby Surround 5.1 - English
  • Dubbed - Spanish - Optional
  • Subtitles - English, French, Spanish - Optional

Additional Release Material:

  • Deleted Scenes (5)
  • Trailers

Reviews

 
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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
Louis Proyect
rec.arts.movies.reviews
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B

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.

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11/05/07
Rob Humanick
Projection Booth
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4/5

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

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09/24/07
Rob Gonsalves
eFilmCritic.com
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3/4

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

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09/07/07
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Cinema Crazed
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Idiocracy is polemic in search of a punch line or plot, and often finding neither.

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06/26/07
Kevin Koehler
Pretentious Musings
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4/5

Idiocracy is an unabashedly elitist film that includes fart jokes.

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01/24/07
Jette Kernion
Cinematical
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B-

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

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01/18/07
Nick Schager
Lessons of Darkness
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Idiocracy’s utter lack of promotion is now something of a minor legend, and it remains perplexing given the film’s obvious charms.

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01/16/07
Rumsey Taylor
Not Coming to a Theater Near You
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4/4

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

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01/12/07
Kam Williams
NewsBlaze
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2.5/5

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.

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01/11/07
Kevin Carr
7M Pictures
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8/10

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

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01/11/07
Jeff Otto
cinemaobsession.com
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3/4

...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.

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01/11/07
James Sanford
Kalamazoo Gazette
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[E]ven more trenchant, more damning, more -- hell, I'll say it -- revolutionary than Office Space.

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01/09/07
MaryAnn Johanson
Flick Filosopher
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0.5/5

The film stinks.

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01/09/07
Phil Hall
EDGE Boston
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By refusing to distance itself from its targets, Mike Judge's brand of satire risks being mistaken for what it's satirizing.

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01/08/07
Fernando F. Croce
Slant Magazine
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7/10

Trust me, it’s a blast!

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01/05/07
JoBlo
JoBlo's Movie Emporium
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2/5

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

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12/30/06
Pablo Villaca
Cinema em Cena
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B

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
Brian Orndorf
eFilmCritic.com
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The movie is bracing for its bile but ultimately more frustrating than funny.

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10/03/06
J. R. Jones
Chicago Reader
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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
Michael W. Phillips, Jr.
Goatdog's Movies
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