Thursday, 7 February 2008

Film #37: Idiocracy (2006)

Directed by: Mike Judge

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

I never saw this film promoted anywhere and didn't even know that it had come outin cinema let alone DVD, this is because of the crappy marketing that the producers did; they didn't allow critics to view it prior to release, didn't promote anything and only released it in about 130 cinemas.

This film offers up an extremely valid point in it's storyline however. The film starts with some interviews with couples, one couple have high IQs whereas the other one has low. Clevon, the stupid guy, has lots of stupid kids with his stupid wife then has an affair and has more stupid kids with lots of other stupid women. Once the stupid kids are grown up, Clevon Junior has lots more stupid kids with lots more stupid girls and while all this hillbilly breeding is happening, the smart couple are focusing oon their careers and have no children, when the husband dies of a heart attack later on, having no children. It then goes to the main story: Joe Bauers (Wilson) is a mediocre soldier who has no family, no friends and no life so he is the perfect candidate to be a guinea pig in testing out human hibernation. The scientists can't find a suitable female so get a prostitute (Rudolph) to agree with it by paying her. The plan is to store them in a pod for a year but the scientists are captured for illegal activity and the pods are left there for 500 years.

In that time, the stupid race of people took over and now everyone are dumb shits. Joe tries toget a diagnosis at the hospital where he realises the date.

He is arrested and sent to prison which he just walks out of. He is then told of a time machine and goes in search of it to return to his own time.

This film is just my type of humour and I laughed most of the way through it. It also stars one of my favourite people ever; this guy:

I love this guy, he's so awesome. He plays the president of Uhh-Merica in this film; President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Pervert Camacho, porn star and five-time ultimate smackdown wrestling champion.

He makes every film 100% better, but I can't really give this film above 100% even if that is the case.
Joe is found out to be the smartest man on Earth and is employed by the President.
This film is pretty damn good and there are so many bits I would love to tell you about but I have waffled on for ages so I'll leave it at that.


90%

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