In a world ruled by Britney Spears, the remotely normal man is king.
Sigh.
So Mike Judge of Beavis and Butthead fame sets out to make his version of Planet of the Apes. Only this time, we're the damn dirty apes, and Luke Wilson (playing a remarkably average army brat) is Charlton Heston.
Low-brow, heavy-hitting, and riddled with satire, Idiocracy is the story of what happens to the world when all the smart people stop having kids and the human race devolves into a bunch of reality TV watching, beer swilling, sex crazed idiots.
So it's almost like now. :)
This 2006 movie got buried in the theaters, and was, ironically enough, dumbed down for release, with a bunch of needless narration and expository material. But I think it will have a nice life on DVD, much like Office Space did.
Well worth a rental or a watch on cable.
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