Review of Idiocracy

Idiocracy (2006)
9/10
Such A Fine Line Between Stupid and Really Stupid......
20 January 2007
If IMDb allowed for negative numbers to rate movies, this one would get '-1199'. It would be a challenge to deliberately create a movie this terrible, and for Luke Wilson, it has to be an embarrassment on his resume. There had to be an outstanding contractual obligation for him to do this or maybe he was a victim of 'shotgun casting'.

Fortunately I got my money's worth as I watched this on a plane. I fear some may categorize this piece of feces as a 'cult classic' for future cable channel broadcasting. Mike Judge's previous work, Office Space, is a perfect example of that. However lightning doesn't strike twice. It is hard to describe how bad this film really is, but please, it is not worth investing your time to find that out.

In concept it sounds like a great idea, but the writing and directing is so terrible that maybe their significant others actually performed the work. There were so many opportunities to be just a bit more clever with the story and the dialog, but it it never breaks that membrane. Give me Ringo Starr in Caveman. That was fun idiocracy!

I won't obsess further, but I had to vent somewhere to get this thought poison out of me. Note: Near the end of the credits a message scrolls up, indicating that 'this entire movie was entirely cut on a computer'. If only that was true...........
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