Idiocracy DVD

I thought this was a documentary on the world in 2024. It certainly seemed real.

This film is all the funny elements of an idiocracy, & acts as a tongue in cheek look at the dangers of stupid people rising to power. It's a pity that the reality of such things aren't anywhere near as funny, but it's not the movies fault that people are actually stupid in the real world. Great performances from a cast who are just on it, an underrated classic for the ages.

Idiocracy is very funny and great entertainment with a serious message. It could be seen as a parody of modern life in the developed and developing world of fast food nations, as well as a warning of what's round the corner if we don't start thinking for ourselves and taking responsibility.This is not just a warning about mass intellectual decline, but about the way that a dumbed-down population could be putty in the hands of a totalitarian state of the kind that the "Average Joe" hero of the film wakes up in after having been cryogenically frozen for 500 years. A world where you get jailed for not having a barcode branded on your wrist and where gladiatorial combat is used as a form of punishment. This depressing message is put across not with deep, dark monologues, but with madcap fun and laughs.The beginning of the film has been criticised because it appears to suggest that this dystopian scenario comes about because intelligent, middle class people from stable backgrounds are not having as many children as lower class dysfunctional families. I agree that this is a major flaw in the film - the story could have been put across in the same way without such a controversial opening episode which - no doubt unintentionally - appears to advocate eugenics. However the whole film revolves around exaggerated characters and situations, so I personally would advise not letting this one opening sequence ruin your enjoyment of the rest of Idiocracy.

I took to this film immediately. I saw the opening scenes at work where it was being transmitted on one of our film channels. I would love to see a UK adaptation of this film, or something along the same lines, as the basic premise is somewhat topical in the UK at the moment.I come from a relatively poor background (grew up in Teesside during the 1980s) but was fortunate enough to get some higher education back when it was still free and I have worked for a living ever since. I was well into my thirties before I started fathering children and we're sticking at two. I resent being labelled middle-class because I still work unsociable hours and long shifts and I have to do constant overtime just to make ends meet.In contrast, and in far greater numbers, much younger people with little or no education who are getting off their faces and knocked-up frequently enough on cheaply-built, miserable, high-density housing estates have found their lifestyles to be curiously rewarding as the current welfare regulations provide more money and bigger housing for young, expanding unemployed families who haven't lifted a finger outside their own homes since they left school. I don't resent them, I almost envy them! Get away with it while you still can!It's called dysgenics. Look it up. It's a regressive kind of evolution, survival of the dumbest. Slackers, thugs and pram-faces who have found that they can have babies for a living and are, in their expanding numbers, hugely influential as consumers in determining what sort of ignorant, proletarian bibble gets printed en-masse in the red-top tabloids, England football flags in every window of every TWOC'ed car and smelly council flat, and they seem to be vastly outnumbering educated professionals. I see childish spelling errors EVERYWHERE! Not just in supermarkets and newspaper adverts but in recruitment agency windows! A racist chav who appears on Big Brother and dies of cancer is sainted in the media and practically canonised by her peers because... what? She had babies? She had cancer?Idiocracy! We are so close now it is not even funny. Now more than ever, for so many reasons, we need scientists and teachers and other high-grade professionals to find a path through the troubles ahead and give us a prosperous future but the goverments keep cutting funding for education and schools keep lowering the standards for GCSE grades. What for? Why can't we face the truth? (I recently met one of the most vacant, air-headed 17-year-olds I have ever known and her GCSE results were twice as good as mine were in 1989... yet she appears lack even the most common knowledge about the subjects she studied let alone anything else!)The Big Society is getting stupider and stupider and this film is less of a comedy and more of a warning of things to come! I just wish that instead of framing the premise around a standard feel-good Hollywood film with a standard happy ending that Mike Judge could have spent more time laying into the issue. This would have made a good mockumentary, but of course it would never have got the backing.Love it anyway... at least somebody is saying what most of us are too polite to voice.

Prescient, prophetic or puerile pap? Mike Judge’s brilliant 2005 gross-out brutal satire is all three and more. I absolutely loved this movie. It’s not just a guilty pleasure. It’s an absolute pleasure. In his hilarious 1973 slapstick movie Sleeper after waking up from a cryogenically frozen sleep 200 years in the future Woody Allen’s health food shop owner come jazz musician discovers a United States ruled as a police state. When Luke Wilson’s military librarian wakes up 500 years in this future he finds the United States in a near comatose state due to the out-breeding of the intelligent and educated by the more indolent of the human species. Judge’s future nightmare imagines a world bereft of knowledge, knowing nothing about engineering, agriculture and medicine, limping by thanks to the automation of basic societal functions by more intelligent ancestors. It’s an apocalyptic vision of a world gone dumb that Jonathan Swift would be proud of, a fantastical dystopian future exaggerating the increasingly pervasive intrusion of advertising and commercialism into contemporary life, the dysevolution of the English language into a stunted hip-hop grunting patois and a derisory disdain of anyone suspected of possessing insightful observations. The plot is basic and nonsensical but contains some marvelous moments. The Basil Exposition time-travel monologue is priceless while the Fox newscast seems nauseatingly credible. The imagined conclusion to the existing direction of travel is disturbingly plausible – a celebrity president presiding over a country whose inhabitants crave instant gratification. Already a cult classic, this is definitely a film to seek out.

It's a stupid film but quite entertaining. Almost on tract for what the future will bring.

Quite a fun movie, not great or a heavy hitter re social commentary, but a fun watch with a little bit of depth... all up front without much edge.

Great film, we really enjoyed it