I just caught this movie on cable called idiocracy. As the name implies it was stupid. but i enjoyed it. I never heard of it before but aparrently it has a bit of a cult following.
A guy gets frozen and wakes up 500 years in the future. In the future everybody has degraded to the level of imbecile. Our average joe is now the smartest person on earth. The film follows his stupid adventures to becoming the president of the united states.
It felt like a stoner movie where each of the vignettes bore litte relatyion to the others. So the jokes are set pieces. A couple of good gags.
But like any good Adam Sandler-type movie, the story of average idiot with an odd special ability making his fortune was enough to sustain me. It is a distillation of the American dream.
2 1/2 stars
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