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Idiocracy [DVD] [2006]
enlarge	Director: Mike Judge Actors: Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph, Dax Shepard Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment Category: DVD List Price: ~~£15.99~~ Buy New: £3.05 as of 22/11/2009 18:22 GMT details You Save: £12.94 (81%) New (13) Used (2) from £3.05 Seller: selectcheaper Rating: 21 reviews Sales Rank: 13113 Format: PAL, Widescreen Languages: English (Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired), English (Original Language) Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over Region: 2 Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Number Of Discs: 1 Running Time: 83 Minutes Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2 Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6 EAN: 5033107610426 ASIN: B000N3T2CQ Theatrical Release Date: 2006 Release Date: March 19, 2007 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days


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Customer Reviews: Showing reviews 1-5 of 21 1 2 3 4 5 Next » Sharp, satirical, chilling. And utterly hilarious. April 16, 2007 Paul Larkin (UK) 14 out of 15 found this review helpful This is the best film I've seen in a long time, and it's surely destined for cult status. br / br /It presents a view of the future which is totally opposite from the conventional hi-tech Utopian vision. The world's population consists entirely of puerile idiots who haven't a clue about anything. The attention to detail in the way the moronic goings-on are depicted is quite incredible - kind of reminded me of the Fifth Element in some respects. br / br /The cinematography is also rather beautiful in a melancholic way, even though the world it's portraying is poisonous, artificial and utterly unwholesome. The "garbage avalanche" scene is awesome. br / br /Highly recommended. I rented this at the weekend and have had to purchase it immediately - I can see myself watching this over and over. Fantastic! July 22, 2007 Captain Awesome (England) 8 out of 9 found this review helpful Most sci-fi seems to paint a nice, happy picture of the future, but I really find this unlikely. br /Idiocracy paints the sort of future I think is far more likely, whilst being very, very amusing. br / br /How could you possibly say no to a movie that contains the surgeon general's warning of: "Warning: The Surgeon General has one lung and a voicebox but he could still kick your sorry ass"? F***ing hilarious March 27, 2007 T-bone 10 out of 12 found this review helpful found this film quite by accident, and i thought it was absloutley hilarious. ok, so its daft, and it aint gonna win an oscar, but it had me in stitches. its a silly, funny film, and it doesnt pretend to be anything else. if you liked team america, or the pick of destiny then you MUST buy this film!!!its got electrolytes!!! Funniest...film...ever (unless you are American and/or dim) June 20, 2007 Mr. Tom C. Walker (London UK) 12 out of 15 found this review helpful This dystopian satire, by Mike Judge of Beavis and Butthead fame, had me in stitches from start to finish. It is likely to polarise opinion in the same way as "Borat" did; it mercilessly satirises American "culture" and as such is likely to draw fire from Americans, people who watch reality TV, people who really like shopping malls, the hard of thinking, and other such groups. br / br /If, on the other hand, you've ever read a book without pictures in it and enjoyed it, there's a fair chance you'll find a lot to like about Idiocracy. The plot is similar to Woody Allen's sleeper; a couple end up getting frozen and living in a dystopian future. In this case the future is what happens when dysgenics reverses the evolutionary process, and people with little to offer the human race breed the most. br / br /Our heroes end up in a world where Starbucks sells handjobs, where soda pop is used instead of water, even for irrigating plants, and where courts have become a Jerry Springer style interrogation. The pacing is good, and the film is not laboured or overlong. Laughs are regular, and many come from the fantastic details. The best gags are too visual to describe here, but many of the minutiae of 21st century everyday life are parodied accurately. br / br /This film will be regarded as a cult classic. Brilliant Comic Vision of Dysgenic Uhmerica December 6, 2008 Alistair McConnachie (Glasgow, United Kingdom) 3 out of 4 found this review helpful This film was completed in 2005. Its release was delayed in the USA until the end of 2006. Even then, it was only released in 125 US cinemas instead of the usual 3000, and box office takings didn't even reach half a million dollars. It was never released in the UK, and is only now available on DVD. br / br /It's also one of the funniest and most original films of the last 10 years and the product of a brilliant mind. br / br /Everything points to this film having been deliberately suppressed! Perhaps a clue can be found in the introductory voiceover: br / br /"As the 21st century began, human evolution was at a turning point. Natural selection, the process by which the strongest, the smartest, the fastest, reproduced in greater numbers than the rest, a process which had once favoured the noblest traits of man, now began to favour different traits. Most science fiction of the day predicted a future that was more civilised and more intelligent. But as time went on, things seemed to be heading in the opposite direction - a dumbing-down. How did this happen? Evolution does not necessarily reward intelligence. With no natural predators to thin the herd, it began to simply reward those who reproduced the most and left the intelligent to become an endangered species." br / br /That's the amazing theme of the movie! The intelligent have been outbred by the stupid and America has been dumbed-down into Uh-merica. br / br /Written and directed by Mike Judge, the comic-genius behind the Beavis and Butthead and King of the Hill cartoon series, it stars Luke Wilson as Joe Bauers - the most statistically average man in the US Army - and Maya Rudolph as Rita, a prostitute. br / br /In 2005, they find themselves in a secret Army experiment, frozen in "Hibernation Pods", which are forgotten about and chucked in a garbage heap. "As the years passed, mankind became stupider at a frightening rate...The population exploded and intelligence continued to decline until humanity was incapable of solving even its most basic problems." br / br /Five hundred years later, the Great Garbage Avalanche of 2505 propels Joe's pod through the window of a "lawyer", Frito, who happens to be watching "Ow, my Balls" on the "Violence Network". br / br /Joe and Rita now find themselves the most intelligent people around. In Uh-merica of 2505, everybody drinks "Brawndo: The Thirst Mutilator". Nobody drinks water - which had become a threat to corporate profits. "Water? You mean like in the toilet?" br / br /The anti-corporate theme is scathing - perhaps another reason why the film was suppressed. It pulls no punches against Starbucks, which has now morphed into a brothel, which also serves coffee. Food is only available from vending machines run by Carl's Jr., an actual American fast food chain, and each Costco, the massive American store, is now bigger than the city itself. br / br /Everybody, except Joe and Rita, has a barcode tattooed on their wrists and those who don't are the "unscannables", who are committing an offence. br / br /The film also digs at the politically-correct use of language. Prisoners are no longer called prisoners but "Particular Individuals". Joe is unscannable and ends up in a "House of Particular Individuals" - the new name for a prison. br / br /President Comacho - "5 time Ultimate Smackdown champion and porn superstar" - soon finds that Joe has "a higher IQ than any man alive" and promotes him to the Cabinet so he can fix "all that starving bullshxt". br / br /This is a high-quality, intelligently-observed, brilliantly-acted, film. Luke Wilson as Joe, Dax Shepherd as Frito and Terry Alan Crews as the President are particularly outstanding. You can also tell the people who made this film, especially the scores of extras, had great fun doing it! It's got a good feel about it. br / br /Idiocracy was released only in six US cities and only 125 cinemas, instead of the usual US-wide release of 2500-3000 cinemas. It was not released in UK cinemas at all! br / br /20th Century Fox, the film's distributor, did nothing to promote it. There were no trailers - the DVD is released without the usual "Theatrical Trailer" - and no television ads, or press kits for media outlets, and no critic screenings were provided. br / br /It is impossible not to conclude that Fox actively suppressed this film, while doing the bare minimum to fulfil its contractual obligation. It is impossible to consider that the suppression of this film is because of its controversial messages - both its vision of a dysgenic future, and its surprisingly strong anti-corporate message. br / br /The film would have made tens of millions had it had a full cinema release. As a critic wrote in The Guardian when it played in a limited way in the USA at the end of last year, "I saw it last Saturday in a half-empty house. Two days later, same place, same show - packed-out. There's an audience for this movie, but its natural demographic barely knows it's out there." (John Patterson, "Stupid Fox", The Guardian, 8-9-06) br / br /In the UK, it was released straight to DVD in May 2007. br / br /As always, you get more of what you pay for. If you want to help Mike Judge produce more of this sort of stuff, the best way is to buy this DVD and any other of his works. This DVD release had, by March 07, earned $9million, over 20 times its limited theatrical release. br / Showing reviews 1-5 of 21 1 2 3 4 5 Next »

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