Idiocracy

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Just to rebel from the Misc Mushy Mingle thread, I'm actually starting an individual thread about a movie we just saw on DVD.

Idiocracy. Never heard of it? Neither had we. Saw an ad for it being released to DVD. Mike Judge made another movie?! After reading the plot outline I had to see it:

Private Joe Bowers, the definition of "average American", is selected by the Pentagon to be the guinea pig for a top-secret hibernation program. Forgotten, he awakes 500 years in the future. He discovers a society so incredibly dumbed-down that he's easily the most intelligent person alive.

The movie delivers a horrifyingly possible - nay, probable! - future. It was funny and ridiculous but man, it was scary more than anything. I probably won't see it again but it was an entertaining flick.

I recommend it for popcorn stupidity. You may come away wanting to procreate and fill the world with smarter children.

"What are you tryin' to read that word for? What are you, a fag or somethin'?"

Random searches around the net tell me that the studio squashed this movie. Even the DVD release is in lame-ass January and costs way too much. I even found amusing posts that claim that Idiocracy was far more plausible than Children of Men.

Anyway, worth a Netflix evening.