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Idiocracy (2006)

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Reviews Counted:38

Fresh:28

Rotten:10

Average Rating:6.5/10

Consensus: Idiocracy delivers the hilarity and biting satire that could only come from Mike Judge.

Rated: R [See Full Rating] for language and sex-related humor.

Runtime: 84 mins

Genre: Comedies

Theatrical Release:2006

Box Office: $313,505

Synopsis: Writer-director Mike Judge's ("Office Space") unique brand of social observational humor this time examines an average guy (Luke Wilson) who volunteers to be the subject of a hibernation experiment... Writer-director Mike Judge's ("Office Space") unique brand of social observational humor this time examines an average guy (Luke Wilson) who volunteers to be the subject of a hibernation experiment that goes awry. He wakes up 1000 years in the future, discovering that he's the smartest guy on the planet. -- © 20th Century Fox [More]

Starring: Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph, Dax Shepard, Terry Crews

Starring: Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph, Dax Shepard, Terry Crews, David Herman, Robert Musgrave, Stephen Root, Sara Rue

Director: Mike Judge

Director: Mike Judge
Screenwriter: Mike Judge, Etan Cohen
Producer: Mike Judge
Screenwriter: Mike Judge
Studio: 20th Century Fox

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The film stinks.

Full Review Source: EDGE Boston | comment 13 Comments
01/09/07
Phil Hall
Phil Hall
EDGE Boston

There's about 15 minutes' worth of laughs here; the problem is that the film is 84 minutes long.

Full Review Source: Goatdog's Movies | comment 5 Comments
09/30/06
Michael W. Phillips, Jr.
Michael W. Phillips, Jr.
Goatdog's Movies

The movie is bracing for its bile but ultimately more frustrating than funny.

Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | comment 4 Comments
10/03/06
J. R. Jones
J. R. Jones
Chicago Reader

Ow! My brain!

Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly | comment 3 Comments
09/02/06
Joshua Rich
Joshua Rich
Entertainment Weekly

Trust me, it’s a blast!

Full Review Source: JoBlo's Movie Emporium | comment 2 Comments
01/05/07
JoBlo
JoBlo
JoBlo's Movie Emporium

We may look back at this film in 500 years and realize that Mike Judge was better able to predict the future than Arthur C. Clarke did with 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Full Review Source: 7M Pictures | comment 2 Comments
01/11/07
Kevin Carr
Kevin Carr
7M Pictures

The theatrical release of Mike Judge's new comedy Idiocracy is one of the most egregious travesties of modern cinema.

Full Review Source: FilmJerk.com | comment 1 Comment
09/04/06
Edward Havens
Edward Havens
FilmJerk.com

By refusing to distance itself from its targets, Mike Judge's brand of satire risks being mistaken for what it's satirizing.

Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | comment 1 Comment
01/08/07
Fernando F. Croce
Fernando F. Croce
Slant Magazine

So puerile and gross that though the movie wants to say something about the dumbing down of America, it winds up not so much commentary as part of the problem.

Full Review Source: One Guy's Opinion | comment 1 Comment
09/01/06
Frank Swietek
Frank Swietek
One Guy's Opinion

Idiocracy is an unabashedly elitist film that includes fart jokes.

Full Review Source: Cinematical | comment 1 Comment
01/24/07
Jette Kernion
Jette Kernion
Cinematical

From start to finish this film is sharp, clever, and downright funny.

Full Review Source: CinemaBlend.com | comment 1 Comment
09/01/06
Joshua Tyler
Joshua Tyler
CinemaBlend.com

So-so attempt at revisiting Sleeper. Unfortunately Mike Judge is no Woody Allen, nor is Woody Allen himself nowadays.

Full Review Source: rec.arts.movies.reviews | comment 1 Comment
11/08/07
Louis Proyect
Louis Proyect
rec.arts.movies.reviews

[E]ven more trenchant, more damning, more -- hell, I'll say it -- revolutionary than Office Space.

Full Review Source: Flick Filosopher | comment 1 Comment
01/09/07
MaryAnn Johanson
MaryAnn Johanson
Flick Filosopher

An intermittently amusing -- and sometimes lazy -- satire that plays like a so-so episode of Futurama.

Full Review Source: Lessons of Darkness | comment 1 Comment
01/18/07
Nick Schager
Nick Schager
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05/07/09
Ann Hornaday
Ann Hornaday
Washington Post

Even if the film contains the single biggest laugh I've had this year at the movies, Idiocracy is a terribly muddled affair.

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
12/25/06
Brian Orndorf
Brian Orndorf
eFilmCritic.com

Judge has a gift for delivering brutal satire in the trappings of low comedy and for making heroes out of ordinary people whose humanity makes them suspect in a world where every inch of space, including mental, is mediated.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | comment Comment
09/05/06
Carina Chocano
Carina Chocano
Los Angeles Times
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Most of these cartoon-like characters could only come from a mind like Mike Judge, who hasn't lost his ability to make stupidity both alarming and endearing.

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
09/03/06
Collin Souter
Collin Souter
eFilmCritic.com

Many people -- at least, a few people -- have noted the dumbing-down of America, but no one until Judge has blamed it on genetics

Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | comment Comment
09/06/06
David Bezanson
David Bezanson
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...consistently entertaining and sporadically hilarious...

Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews | comment Comment
09/01/06
David Nusair
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