Someone wake up at Fox...Idiocracy (film review)

So like I mentioned in my last post, I rented Mike Judge's follow up to "Office Space", "Idiocracy" through Amazon's Unbox service. I had heard nothing but raves about it, but unfortunately for us I had also heard all the bullshit that went on at the studio level, which basically buried the movie.

I think it got a release in a handful of towns for about a week, and then pulled from theaters. Not to mention the fact that Fox pulled support from the film in post production. Mike Judge had to go to his friend Robert Rodriguez to get the CGI work done for free. Fox had similarly screwed Judge over in "Office Space"'s release, but it ended up doing huge business on DVD, which led to them initially greenlighting "Idiocracy".

Anyway, keeping all this in mind, it is a wonder Judge was able to make as complete a movie he did. To put it bluntly, the movie is an instant classic. The story in a nutshell, Luke Wilson is an army librarian, who is content with his horribly average life, and gets recruited into a suspened animation experiment, which goes horribly wrong and he ends up waking up in the year 2505. Maya Rudolph, a professional street walker, also gets recruited too. Anyway, the movie is basically a commentary on where our culture/society is going. In the year 2505, corporate culture and marketing has basically taken over the world. Our President is an Ex-wrestler/porn star (played brilliantly by Terry Crews), Gatorade has replaced water, the number one tv show is about a guy getting hit in the balls, etc. I think you get the picture.

Needless to say, the movie is hilarious. There are a ton of sight gags that you might miss on the first viewing. The prop and set design is pretty brilliant because even on a low budget there is just a ton of stuff on screen that induces laughter let alone what the characters are doing/saying. After viewing the movie, it is a bit sad how close our world today resembles this idiotic future, but I think you will be laughing too much to feel sorry for yourself. Ok, time to get back to Americanidol.com and continue bashing Sanjaya.