An average schlub (Luke Wilson) is selected by the Pentagon to participate in a yearlong cryogenic freezing experiment where he is forgotten of course and awakened half a millennia later to fight himself the most intelligent being among a population of dimwits. Mike Judge's Idiocracy, which has seen a revival during this election season, is a half-assed, barely thought out, rudimentary satire that is not without its laugh out loud moments. ** out of ****
An average schlub (Luke Wilson) is selected by the Pentagon to participate in a yearlong cryogenic freezing experiment where he is forgotten of course and awakened half a millennia later to fight himself the most intelligent being among a population of dimwits. Mike Judge's Idiocracy, which has seen a revival during this election season, is a half-assed, barely thought out, rudimentary satire that is not without its laugh out loud moments. ** out of ****