Idiocracy

Run don't walk to your neighborhood theater and see Mike Judge's Idiocracy, that is, if it is showing in your neighborhood. It might not be and if it is, you most likely don't know about it since it has a advertising budget of $0. Not even newspaper ads folks, nothing. Really sad too because though not as good as Judge's Office Space, Idiocracy has a lot to say about America and the dumbing down of society.

It's a science fiction tale of a one-year cryogenic suspension experiment gone wrong. Mr. absolutely average, Luke Wilson, wakes up 500 years from now to find out the human race has been taken over by trailer-park idiots and he is now the smartest person in America. It's lewd, it's crude and it's funny. The laughs would have been bigger if they didn't hit so close to modern reality.

How dumb is America? Everyone is starving because of a food shortage. Crops don't seem to grow anymore now that the FDA was bought by a sports drink company and some sort of Gator-Aid is being used to water the crops. The #1 movie in the country is Ass, one and a half hours of a guy's ass farting. It won eight Academy Awards, including Best Screenplay.

There are still Starbucks on every corner, only now they serve hand-jobs, not coffee. Carl's Jrs motto is no long, "Don't bother me, I'm eating," it's now "Fuck You! I'm eating!" Fuddruckers name has changed. First is was Buddruckers, then Buttnuckers and now it's just plain old ButtFuckers.

According to Wikipedia, the film has only been released in Los Angeles, Atlanta, Toronto, Chicago and three cities in Mike Judge's home state of Texas--Dallas, Houston, and his hometown Austin.

But if you can, see it while you can and pray you don't live in a country where the president is a WWE wrestler/porn star. It's bad enough living in a state where the people were idiot enough to elect a two-bit actor governor (geeze, we did that twice; once in the 60's [whatever happened to THAT hack] and now again in the 2000's).