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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.

Runtime: 84 mins

Genre: Comedies

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... 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]

Starring: Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph, Dax Shepard, Terry Crews

Starring: Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph, Dax Shepard, Terry Crews, David Herman, Robert Musgrave, Stephen Root, Sara Rue

Director: Mike Judge

Director: Mike Judge
Screenwriter: Mike Judge, Etan Cohen
Producer: Mike Judge
Screenwriter: Mike Judge
Studio: 20th Century Fox

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Ann Hornaday

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Full Review Source: | comment Comment | May., 07 2009 03:15 AM

Washington Post

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8/10

Jeffrey Chen

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.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Aug., 18 2008 09:34 AM

Window to the Movies

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Louis Proyect

So-so attempt at revisiting Sleeper. Unfortunately Mike Judge is no Woody Allen, nor is Woody Allen himself nowadays.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Nov., 08 2007 12:31 PM

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B

Rob Humanick

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.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Nov., 05 2007 05:21 PM

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4/5

Rob Gonsalves

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

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Sep., 24 2007 08:45 AM

eFilmCritic.com

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3/4

Felix Vasquez Jr.

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

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Sep., 07 2007 11:17 PM

Cinema Crazed

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4/5

Jette Kernion

Idiocracy is an unabashedly elitist film that includes fart jokes.

Full Review Source: | comment 1 Comment | Jan., 24 2007 10:33 PM

Cinematical

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B-

Nick Schager

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

Full Review Source: | comment 1 Comment | Jan., 18 2007 10:23 AM

Lessons of Darkness

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Rumsey Taylor

Idiocracy’s utter lack of promotion is now something of a minor legend, and it remains perplexing given the film’s obvious charms.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jan., 16 2007 03:16 AM

Not Coming to a Theater Near You

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4/4

Kam Williams

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

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jan., 12 2007 02:00 PM

NewsBlaze

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2.5/5

Kevin Carr

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.

Full Review Source: | comment 2 Comments | Jan., 11 2007 10:36 PM

7M Pictures

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8/10

Jeff Otto

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

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jan., 11 2007 12:09 PM

cinemaobsession.com

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3/4

James Sanford

...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.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jan., 11 2007 11:07 AM

Kalamazoo Gazette

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MaryAnn Johanson

[E]ven more trenchant, more damning, more -- hell, I'll say it -- revolutionary than Office Space.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jan., 09 2007 08:42 PM

Flick Filosopher

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0.5/5

Phil Hall

The film stinks.

Full Review Source: | comment 11 Comments | Jan., 09 2007 05:23 AM

EDGE Boston

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3/4

Fernando F. Croce

By refusing to distance itself from its targets, Mike Judge's brand of satire risks being mistaken for what it's satirizing.

Full Review Source: | comment 1 Comment | Jan., 08 2007 08:49 AM

Slant Magazine

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7/10

JoBlo

Trust me, it’s a blast!

Full Review Source: | comment 2 Comments | Jan., 05 2007 03:17 AM

JoBlo's Movie Emporium

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2/5

Pablo Villaca

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

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Dec., 30 2006 10:19 AM

Cinema em Cena

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Brian Orndorf

Even if the film contains the single biggest laugh I've had this year at the movies, Idiocracy is a terribly muddled affair.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Dec., 25 2006 11:41 PM

eFilmCritic.com

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J. R. Jones

The movie is bracing for its bile but ultimately more frustrating than funny.

Full Review Source: | comment 3 Comments | Oct., 03 2006 01:44 PM

Chicago Reader

 
 
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