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Idiocracy : 3 of 5
3.27.2007 7:36 PM \| Link	I hadn't heard a thing about this movie (thanks to its non-existent marketing campaign) until my pal Tom mentioned it to me, so I decided to take a look (and I watched it for free on my TiVo via Amazon Onebox, which I'll talk about in another post!). The idea behind this movie is absolutely hilarious - an average army guy is frozen in an experiment and wakes up 500 years in the future to find that humanity has degenerated into pure stupidity (which is explained in the prologue, showing goofy rednecks having tons of babies). The best part of this movie are all the details of this new society - water fountains dispensing Gatorade, La-Z-Boys with built-in toilets, Costco stores so huge that you have to ride a shuttle between departments, and a wrestling star as President! My favorite joke is watching the outside of a Fuddruckers restaurant change as the years pass, with the name eventually transforming into what it sounds like anyway. Besides all of these funny details, the plot is just so-so. It drags a little in places, but there's always another joke around the corner to keep it interesting enough. In some ways, I think a few of the "predictions" here could really happen (especially a hit TV show called Ow, My Balls!), but it's still so much fun to laugh at humanity and just hope we can stay smarter than we seem! Labels: dvds


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