bies until they can "afford" them combined with the red-neckers complete disregard for population control is a scary but completely plausible reality. the rest of the film was a highly unlikely exaggeration which was almost insulting at times. for instance, when luke's character talks like a normal human does today... it's called "fag talk" while everyone else just "speaks" in grunts. but maybe that's a way of saying that homosexuals are smarter than heteros. who knows. and really... would we ever elect a WWF, or whatever it's called now, wrestling dude... president? not us. but these people would. i guess when i say insulting i mean that i am offended (read: scared) that anyone would think my gene pool is capable of being such a bunch of morons.idiocracy had its [few] funny moments. but it was mostly made up of "har-har" sex jokes. the acting was abysmal, even from luke wilson, who's usually great on screen. mya rudolph was just absolutely horrible. but dax shepard played a "retard" pretty well... but i'm not sure that's really something to be proud of.
it was a worthy attempt at depicting the degradation of our society. but the low brow humor was a little much and negated any progress the film made in terms of being taken as a serious comedy.
idiocracy: c+
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I have to disagree with you guys on this one. I didn't think it was amazing (it could never be Office Space, Mike Judd's other film), but I thought it was a pretty effective satire on our culture. The mindlessness of our TV shows, the complete disregard of the environment (the garbage pile), etc. I think the movie had something worthwhile to say and was pretty funny, too. But Lindsay also didn't care for it, so I think I'm in the minority.
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