It’s a low-boil affair from the Office Space auteur that wears out its dumb-and-dumbest playbook early on.
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09/05/06
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.
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Reviews for Idiocracy
Idiocracy ultimately sputters out, managing to go only so far as an engine built on buffoonery without adequate brains can handle.
09/16/06
The delivery in Idiocracy is frequently flat, but its vision is dead-on.
09/23/06
Many people -- at least, a few people -- have noted the dumbing-down of America, but no one until Judge has blamed it on genetics
09/06/06
A couple of good laughs, but mostly a big mess.
09/05/06
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.
01/11/07
Even if some of the gags about dumb people start becoming tiresome, it's linked to a sensation of discomfort that should make us legitimately worry about the direction we're headed in.
08/18/08
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.
09/05/06
Top CriticBy refusing to distance itself from its targets, Mike Judge's brand of satire risks being mistaken for what it's satirizing.
01/08/07
I look forward to a time when I can safely laugh at Idiocracy, but that time may not come any time soon.
09/24/07
The film stinks.
01/09/07
The theatrical release of Mike Judge's new comedy Idiocracy is one of the most egregious travesties of modern cinema.
09/04/06
You have to love a movie that imagines a dystopic future in which the U.S. President is a former wrestler and porn star named Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho.
11/05/07
Trust me, it’s a blast!
01/05/07
[E]ven more trenchant, more damning, more -- hell, I'll say it -- revolutionary than Office Space.
01/09/07
The movie is bracing for its bile but ultimately more frustrating than funny.
10/03/06
Top CriticIdiocracy is an unabashedly elitist film that includes fart jokes.
01/24/07
Mike Judge's Idiocracy is absolutely a satire for its time. What Judge is less sure of here than in his previous, perfectly pitched live-action comedy Office Space, is how to build a complete movie around his key ideas.
09/01/06
Top CriticOften stingingly funny -- and an undeserving resident of the summer's-end movie dumping ground.
09/05/06
Top Critic...consistently entertaining and sporadically hilarious...
09/01/06
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August 31, 2006:
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July 26, 2006:
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