Idiocracy - 3 out of 4 stars

I got a chance to see Idiocracy with my mom and brother after my mom asked to borrow a comedy at Hollywood Video, and we were not disappointed. The movie, directed by Mike Judge, concerns an army regular (Luke Wilson) who is picked to be in an experiment testing out hibernation pods. He was chosen because he is the most average person in the Army, in terms of intelligence, skills, and health. Also joining him in the experiment is SnL's Maya Rudolph, a prostitute who was picked because they couldn't find any average women in the military.

Basically, something goes wrong with keeping track of the experiment, so instead of waking up in 1 year, which was the original intention, they both wake up 500 years into the future. Unfortunately, mankind got super dumb because all the smart people decided to have fewer babies or no babies at all, while the Jerry Springer-type of redneck trash breed like crazy. Thus, Luke Wilson and Maya Rudolph end up being the smartest people in the world, and after a series of adventures, Luke is picked to solve America's problems.

This movie has a lot of dumb comedy, so it will satisfy the American Pie/Beavis and Butthead enthusiasts type, but there are a lot of smart things about it, and the way that things are going now, you can see that this type of disutopia can certainly happen like they show it in Idiocracy. Though not as good as his previous work, the sleeper hit Office Space, Mike Judge does a great job on delineating just what might happen if civilization keeps treading the course we are treading today.