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Private Joe Bowers, the definition of "average American", is selected by the Pentagon to be the guinea pig for a top-secret hibernation program. Forgotten, he awakes 500 years in the future. He discovers a society so incredibly dumbed-down that he's easily the most intelligent person alive. Read more

Starring Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph, Dax Shepard, Anthony Campos
Director Mike Judge
Genres Action/Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi/Fantasy

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Idiocracy

Private Joe Bowers, the definition of "average American", is selected by the Pentagon to be the guinea pig for a top-secret hibernation program. Forgotten, he awakes 500 years in the future. He discovers a society so incredibly dumbed-down that he's easily the most intelligent person alive.

Starring Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph, Dax Shepard, Anthony Campos, David Herman, Sonny Castillo, Robert Musgrave
Director Mike Judge
Studio 20TH CENTURY FOX
Run time DVD: 1 hr 24 mins
Certificate DVD Certificate 15.gif
Genres Action/Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Language English
Released DVD: 19 Mar 2007
Production year: 2007
Format DVD
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  • 42 out of 44 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 4 stars [Highly rated reviewer]

    Seems like a lot of reviewers missed the point.

    A lot of things in this film are really stupid, but the comedy is in the irony of the future people who are so stupid themselves that they find it hilarious. If you don't get the irony or realise the consequences of dysgenics and anti-intellectualism then you probably won't get this film.

    It isn't just a satirical black comedy, but also a stimulus to make people think about the dumming down of our society and what happens if global corporations are left unchecked ... than is, if they can still think!

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  • 1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

    Rated - 1 star

    Idiots all round.

    Virtually unwatchable - Dax Shepard provides a typically sub-par performance and Luke Wilson demonstrates exactly why he is the lesser known of the Wilson boys. The fact that when the film was released, the production company sat on it for over a year after completion and did no marketing at it's point of release is suggestive that even they knew how poor this effort was. What was most annoying though is that it could have been good, if it hadn't been given to a director who thinks guffawing, drooling, drawling morons wandering around bumping into each other are automatically funny. They weren't. A good idea, but a terrible result.

      • si81 from Lancaster
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    • Private Joe Bowers, the definition of "average American", is selected by the Pentagon to be the guinea pig for a top-secret hibernation program. Forgotten, he awakes 500 years in the future. He ...