Idiocracy

2006 film by Mike Judge on the sad state of America 500 years in the future.


Plot Sum:

Extremely average intelligenced dude volunteers for experiment to be freeze-dried and woken up a year later, only to wake up five hundred years later. In this new world, due to government welfare and cheap fast food, the below-average proliferated while the elites merely had one or two children. The human race have devolved themselves to retardation. Its a world full of hillbilly consumerism cliches, in which Carl's Jr. is the only form of food, Costco is as big as a city, and the President is a popular wrestler. Frozen alongside our hero is a prostitute, who defroze at around the same time. In this new world they are geniuses, and together they traverse this wasteland made up of lowest common denominators and save the people from themselves.

Thoughts:


The whole thing runs like an overlong SNL skit, which means the concept is funny, but it gets stale in movie form. SNL's Maya Rudolf starring in the film doesn't help. I'm not entirely sure I approve of the message either. Dysgenics, is it called? That's also known was eugenics, what the Nazis used to justify genocide. The anti-corporate message, though overused, is much more palatable.

Notable Scene:

"Welcome to Costco, I love you."

One of the few scenes I genuinely lol'd at.

TL;DR:
In the future, the whole world becomes dumb and dumber. The end.