Idiocracy

Writer-director Mike Judge’s (“Office Space”) unique brand of humor examines an average guy who volunteers to be the subject of a hibernation experiment that goes awry.

He wakes up 500 years in the future, discovering that thanks to the rampant dumbing-down of our species, he’s the smartest guy on the planet.

As extensively reported, rumored, and speculated on by Bilge Ebiri, editor of thescreengrab.com, Idiocracy appeared to be the target of deliberate suppression by Twentieth Century Fox, the same studio that had previously watched Judge's Office Space go from big-screen flop to home-video hit (and with whom Judge retains a relationship though Fox channel mainstay King of the Hill). Word of poor test screenings and brutal studio cuts, common enough indignities, were soon followed by reports of more anomalous neglect: industry-mandated trade screenings cancelled at the last minute, print requests by festival programmers ignored, stingy theatrical bookings. A profile of Judge in Esquire was plotted around the arrival of a phone call from Fox granting the filmmaker permission to screen an Idiocracy trailer for the journalist. The call never came. - The Villiage Voice

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You can get it on DVD now, so, I will be looking for it. Let you know when I see it. Sounds like fun.

UPDATE

I have seen the movie. I enjoyed the way they projected trends in both ignorance as well as capitalism gone wild. There were many funny bits as well.

More seriously, it serves as a humorous way of warning kids in particular of the reprecussions of emulating "mooks" and "mid-drifts". (These are terms used by advertisers to describe target audiences of ignorant testosterone driven boys and chicks that want to be hot and dance in rap videos)

The future world is rendered very cleverly and the humor although targetting stupidity is witty and engaging (although often subtle) for the most part.

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