Idiocracy
2006
**½
Director: Mike Judge
Cast: Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph, Dax Shepard, Terry Alan Crews, Anthony Campos, David Herman, Kevin McAfee, Robert Musgrave
Luke Wilson plays an average Joe who wakes up 500 years into the future and discovers that the mankind has become so stupid that he is now the smartest man on the planet. The set-up of this science fiction comedy obviously owes a great deal to Woody Allen's Sleeper, but it is unclear whether this is a smart comedy for dumb people or a dumb comedy for smart people? The first 30 minutes offer some wonderfully witty, keenly observed humour about the American way of life, but then Mike Judge and Etan Cohen run out of ideas. Clever gags make way for big, boring action set pieces and jokes that play to the lowest common denominator.
