I stumbled upon Idiocracy through a link to Youtube on Fark. I don’t even read Fark anymore, but for some reason the line was titled was “Wonder why Fox dumped Mike Judge’s “Idiocracy?” This clip will probably clear that up (not safe for work language)“

 This was the video I watched. I was interested in the movie after the clip so I went to find out more about it. Turns out, it’s a Mike Judge (Office Space!) movie that received little to no promotion, wasn’t screened in more than a handful of theaters, and was pushed out to DVD.

Wow, if they such low expectations from a movie, it must have been a total bomb, right? Think again. Now that I’ve seen the film, I’m surprised this is so under the radar. Just like Office Space, a quotable cult classic, this movie has a lot of great humor. I want to get the word out about this undiscovered black comedy.

The premise is this: In the future, idiots out breed intelligent people, and over the course of 500 years the IQ of America plummets. The world is in crisis due to overwhelming stupidity. A few people, put into a state of suspended animation and later forgotten about awaken to find themselves the smartest people on Earth. They try to fix their situation while living in a comedic moron-filled dystopia.

The movie has a lot of hilarious quotes that would have made it a hit on campus or between friends. It’s also got a lot of anti-corporate jabs that probably got it in trouble with it’s distributors, prompting it’s quiet release. It’s a satire in low brow form that gets it’s point across. I also like it’s jab at advertising and politics too. It’s a crime this movie isn’t more popular.

The saddest thing about this movie was this described what it was like for me to be in high school in any “general” level class. I think I connected to the protagonist after he had an argument shot down for how he talked or the words he used being “to big”. This sort of  behavior irritated the hell out of me in High School. Ironically, one of the biggest sources of annoyance was “Beavis and Butt-head“, also created by Mike Judge.