The Holtonian

Idiocracy is Idiotic

I remember first hearing about "Idiocracy" a year ago or so when it was foretold that Mike Judge would finally make another movie. This movie would take place in the future where civilization has crumbled due to pop culture influences like Jerry Springer and America's Funniest Videos.

So that premise sounds pretty good eh? A good old social critique in the form of a comedy, starring Luke Wilson... right, sounds good eh?

It was awful. We watched it last night and the movie while making fun of our current society, by showing how we basically de-evolve into mindless hormonal children, basically glorified it at the sametime. Its hard for me to say the movie had a redeeming message as it says, true culture (literature, arts, etc) is important yet the movie itself is void of any virtuous culture. The funniest parts of the movie are the dumbest parts... so in essence while critiquing pop culture it portrays and embodies it too. Its kind of weird.

It also goes to show you that Luke Wilson really will do any movie that is offered to him.

Here's the plot: Joe (Luke Wilson) gets frozen and wakes up 500 years in the future (kind of like Futurama) but basically society has crumbled. The world is one big trash heep, no one does anything besides watching tv and going to starbucks (which in the future basically becomes a whorehouse... kind of funny if you think about it), and the number one movie at the box office is 90 minutes of a guys rear end... and thats it. Costco is pretty much the only store, Carls Jr (Hardees to us easterners) can have your kids taken away if you're a bad parent, basically gatorade has replaced all forms of water (thus a drought because plants are being watered by gatorade and thus they have all died), and the president is the WWF champion.

Its kind of funny to see how the world got in this situation in the movie. It shows two couples. Couple one are high powered work aholics with huge IQs who want to focus on their careers before settling down. Then 5 years later they don't think the markets right for kids. Then 5 years later they're both impotent.

Then there's the rednecks who are having a million and one kids and thus they are left to populate the earth. All science becomes commercialistic, instead of curing diseases scientists focus on better viagra and hair growth drugs.

So I mean the movie has some funny aspects but in comedy its a matter if you miss the mark by a little bit the joke is just killed. And in this one the joke is just killed before it can get off the ground... hence why it went strait to video. Basically it was just too dumb to be funny. Also I find Dax Sheperd to be very annoying.