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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT EAN: 0024543401797 Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC Label: 20th Century Fox Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: 20th Century Fox Region Code: 1 Release Date: January 09, 2007 Running Time: 87 minutes Studio: 20th Century Fox Theatrical Release Date: 2006 Sales Rank: 295 MPN: 2240179
Product Description: From Mike Judge one of the creative minds behind "Beavis and Butt-Head" "King of the Hill" and Office Space comes an outrageous sci-fi comedy that'll make you think twice about the future of mankind.Meet Joe Bowers (Luke Wilson). He's not the sharpest tool in the shed. But when a government hibernation experiment goes awry Bowers awakens in the year 2505 to find a society so dumbed-down by mass commercialism and mindless TV programming that he's become the smartest guy on the planet. Now it's up to an average Joe to get human evolution back on track!Filled with razor-sharp sarcasm and outrageous sight gags Idiocracy will make you laugh out loud whether you're an absolute genius or a complete idiot!Extras:Anamorphic3 trailers5 deleted scenesFeatures: Outtakes (Five deleted scenes: Babies - Trashy Guy & Girl in Truck / Girlfriend #1 / Girlfriend #2 / Museum of Fart / Joe in Whitehouse Looks Out)System Requirements:Run Time: 84 minsFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Rating: R UPC: 024543401797 Manufacturer No: 2240179
Amazon.com: Given that Office Space is a bona fide cult classic, it comes as some surprise that Mike Judge's follow-up wasn't more heavily promoted. Granted, this live-action comedy is a darker, more pointed proposition, but it's unfortunate that few theater patrons got the opportunity to, well, judge for themselves. In Idiocracy, the King of the Hill creator visualizes what would happen if Devo's proposition--that mankind is in the process of devolution--came to pass. The catalyst: the overeducated start having fewer children while the undereducated have more. Enter Joe (Luke Wilson), a military librarian with no family and even less ambition. The Pentagon chooses him for a top-secret hibernation project due to his extreme "average-ness." They select Rita (SNL's Maya Rudolph), a prostitute, for the same reason. When the experiment goes haywire, the two emerge 500 years later--rather than one. Now it's 2505 and they're the brightest people in the over-polluted land. Everyone else is, basically, Beavis and Butt-head. Yes, the satire couldn't be less subtle, but the premise gives Judge license to make as much fun of junk food pop culture as dystopian classics like 1984 and Planet of the Apes. Wilson wisely plays it straight, even if the actors who surround him sometimes succumb to excess. And the effects may be cheesy, but that just adds to the fun. Idiocracy features former footballer Terry Crews (Everybody Hates Chris) as President Camacho and Dax Shepard (Punk'd) as Joe's futuristic friend Frito. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Great concept and funny acting!
The idea of the movie is so obvious but nobody dares to make it until this director did. It deserves a great admiration and fun to watch,too! (The female lead (she's in SNL cast) is hilarious....
Rating: - All too realistic
Just take a look around and you'll see we don't have to go 500 years into the future to be in witless consumer hell. All movies released should be this movie, until the world wakes up and gets the point.
Rating: - A wonderful satire that should be seen
Office Space helmer and creator of Beavis & Butt-Head and King of the Hill Mike Judge crafted this clever, funny, and deadpan satire that sadly went unnoticed by audiences, thanks in no part to Fox. ... Read More
Rating: - How did America miss this movie?!?!?!
This movie is HILARIOUS. It follows the least fortunate trends in our culture (superstores, dumbed down entertainment, sex in marketing) to their (please no!) conclusions. I can't imagine why this wasn't ... Read More
Rating: - an exquisite joke
The movie "Idiocracy" lacks many of the elements that make a good movie, but it works brilliantly as a joke about TV, law, the military, and politics as they currently work to give everyone the maximum motivation ... Read More
- Great concept and funny acting!