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Title: Idiocracy (2006)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Luke Wilson | ... | Joe Bauers | |
| Maya Rudolph | ... | Rita | |
| Dax Shepard | ... | Frito | |
| Terry Crews | ... | President Camacho (as Terry Alan Crews) | |
| Anthony 'Citric' Campos | ... | Secretary of Defense | |
| David Herman | ... | Secretary of State | |
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Sonny Castillo | ... | Prosecutor |
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Kevin McAfee | ... | Bailiff (as Kevin S. McAfee) |
| Robert Musgrave | ... | Sgt. Keller | |
| Michael McCafferty | ... | Officer Collins (as Mike McCafferty) | |
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Christopher Ryan | ... | Hospital Technician (as Ryan Melton) |
| Justin Long | ... | Doctor | |
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Heath Jones | ... | Cop #1 |
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Eli Muñoz | ... | Horny Guy |
| Patrick Fischler | ... | Yuppie Husband | |
Officer Collins has been spearheading one of the US Army's most secretive experiments to date: the Human Hibernation Project. If successful, the project would store its subjects indefinitely until they are needed most. Their first test subject - Joe Bauers - was not chosen for his superiority. Instead, he's chosen because he's the most average guy in the armed services. But scandal erupts after the experiment takes place - the base is closed, and the president denies any knowledge of the project - Unfortunately, Joe doesn't wake up in a year, he wakes up in 500 years. But during that time human evolution has taken a dramatic downturn. After waking up, Joe takes a prison-assigned IQ test and finds that he's the smartest guy alive. Awaiting a full presidential pardon if he can solve one of the country's biggest problems - the dwindling plant population, Joe races against time to solve this problem. But he alienates half the country in the process. Can he make things right and escape a ... Written by halo1k
As social satire, Idiocracy is just as good as Office Space, but with a wider scope. To criticize this film as too puerile due to potty humor is to kind of miss the point, I think. There are certainly fart jokes etc., but they're not really intended to be funny to the audience - they exist to define the state of "culture" in the world of 2500 AD visited by Joe, as a background to the bizarre state of affairs in which he awakes. The real humor of the film lies in the many sight gags and attitudes present in this future society that are just a shade off of what we encounter in our daily lives, and which should serve as a warning. My personal favorite is the depiction of Fox News. The subtle brilliance in the film lies in the fact that it also digs at "smart" people, and average Joes like the protagonists. Note the times in the film when Joe and Rita almost subconsciously conform to the idiots around them, and you realize that Idiocracy is not created to pick on any group of people in particular, but on the culture of idiocy in general. I don't know what to say about the "made for conspiracy theory" behavior of Fox in releasing this film, but if it's not playing in your local theater, demand it. We all need to see this film, if not for the social commentary, at least for the fart jokes...