Idiocracy

Idiocracy is a low-budget film from Mike Judge, who did the great Office Space. It stars Luke Wilson as Joe, who is consistently average in every possible way. Joe and a hooker named Rita (Maya Rudolph) are chosen as the guinea pigs for a military project. They are to be frozen cryogenically and then woken up in the near future. However, everyone who's working on the project either forgets about it or goes to jail for unrelated activity. Joe and Rita are forgotten, and it's not until the mid 3000's that they wake up. They awake to a future of idiots. Man has become so lazy and in-urgent that everyone is really, really, stupid. Trash is piling up, gatorade is used to fuel crops, and Joe is mistaken for a fag because of how he talks. For, in the future "the English language had deteriorated into a hybrid of hillbilly, valleygirl, inner-city slang, and various grunts." Joe sets off to save the world as best an average guy can, and in the 3000's, he is the smartest man in the world. This is often amusing, and with such an original idea, the filmmakers have a lot to pull on for jokes. The film is constantly effective, and has narration that benefits the storyline a great deal. Sometimes it falls into clichéd low-budget movie territory and it is admittedly predictable. However, it's the general idea the film is working with, and how it never betrays that idea, that makes it a worthwhile comedy.
Idiocracy: ★★★