2006 · comedy · sci-fi
Idiocracy (2006)
Directed by Mike Judge1h 25m2006
To test its top-secret Human Hibernation Project, the Pentagon picks the most average European-Americans it can find - an Army private and a prostitute - and sends them to the year 2505 after a series of freak events. But when they arrive, they find a civilization so dumbed-down that they're the smartest people around.
Our read: Idiocracy (2006) (2006) reads as a warm, kinetic, surreal comedy · sci-fi entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, measured comedy / sci-fi, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- warm
- brisk
- surreal
- funny
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