Idiocracy [WS]

Director: Mike Judge Mike Judge

Overview

Mike Judge wrote and directed this offbeat sci-fi comedy which gives a new meaning to the expression "people are getting dumber all the time." Pvt. Joe Bowers (Luke Wilson) is a soldier chosen to take part in a secret military scientific experiment in which he will be put into induced hibernation for one year. Bowers is chosen for the assignment because he is statistically the most average man in the Army; however, Bowers is forgotten when the military base the experiment took place in closes down, and when he wakes up in the year 3001, he finds himself living in a society where intelligence has taken such a landslide he's now the smartest man in the world. What will Bowers do in a nation where an unremarkable man is elevated to the level of a genius? Produced under the title 3001, Idiocracy also stars Maya Rudolph, Dax Shepard, and Stephen Root.

Product Details

Release Date:	01/09/2007
UPC:	0024543401797
Original Release:	2006
Rating:	R
Source:	20Th Century Fox
Region Code:	1
Presentation:	[Letterbox]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround, Dolby Digital Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	1:27:00

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Luke Wilson	Joe Bauers,Beef Supreme
Maya Rudolph	Rita
Dax Shepard	Frito
Michael McCafferty	Off. Collins
Thomas Haden Church	Brawndo CEO
Mitch Baker	Doctor
Tom Beaver	Dan Fisk
Sonny Castillo	Prosecutor
Kevin Cacy	Assistant District Attorney
Ryan Christopher	Doctor
Danny Cochran	Secretary of Education
Patrick Fischler	Yuppie Husband
Darlene Hunt	Yuppie Wife
Brendan Hill	Secretary of Energy
Marc Hustvedt	Teenage Punk
Timothy Judd	MP
Katie Knighten	President Camacho's Groupie
Justin Long	Dr. Lexus
Jeremy Lopez	Devil Wrestler
Evan Miller	Charles Chaplin
Robert Musgrave	Sgt. Keller
Ryan Ransdell	Clevon
Randal Reeder	Secret Service Thug,Prison Guard #2
Brenna Rivas	President Camacho's Groupie
Stephen Root	Judge Hank `The Hangman' BMW
Sara Rue	Attorney General
Brent Smiga	Sharon's Boss
Jennifer Roxanne Vasquez	President Camacho's Groupie
Justin Williford	MP
Lynnanne Zager	Carl Jr.'s Computer
Earl Mann	Narrator
David Herman	Secretary of State
Kevin McAfee	Actor
Terry Crews	President Camacho
Heath Jones	Actor
Melissa Sweet	Actor
Anthony 'Citric' Campos	Secretary of Defense
Brad "Scarface" Jordan	Uprgrayedd
Earl Mann	Narrator
Kevin S. McAfee	Bailiff
Ryan Melton	Hospital Technician
Eli Muñoz	Horny Guy
Valerie Posas	New Slutty Girl
Wes Davis	Trashy Teen Jock
Kevin Klee	Ow! My Balls! Guy
Turk Pipkin	Guy at Costco
Heather Kafka	Woman at Carl's Jr.
Lidia Porto	Female Reporter
Greg Pitts	Cameraman
Daniel Smith	Control Room Director
Chris Warner	Cop at Costco
Lonnie Nelson	Trapped Man
Marcos Martinez Rios	Secret Service Thug #2
Jason Konopisos	Cop at Government Center
Greg Kelly	Stadium Guard
Derek Southers	Male FOX Newscaster
Melissa Dawn	Female FOX Newscaster
Roman Ramos	Congressman #2
Mark Turner	Officer
Christopher Campos	Congressman #1
Lawrence Castillo	Prison Guard #3
Jason Schaefer	Prison Guard #1/Costco Greeter
Joseph Cheatham	Doctor in Waiting Room
Melissa Espinales	Counter Woman
John Dodson	Additional Officer
Theodore Shapiro	Composer

Technical Credits

Mike Judge

Etan Cohen

Mike Judge	Director,Screenwriter,Producer
Etan Cohen	Screenwriter
Elysa Koplovitz	Producer
Michael Nelson	Executive Producer
Paul Goodstein	Key Grip
Mary Vernieu	Casting
Mack Melson	Sound/Sound Designer

Editorial Reviews

Beavis and Butt-head creator Mike Judge's 1999 live-action feature film, Office Space, tanked at the box office but quickly built a following on video and DVD, earning cult-classic status and whetting his audience's appetite for more feature films. Still, the studio shelved this long-awaited follow-up -- a futuristic satire depicting a hilariously dumbed-down America -- for over a year before slipping it out for a brief, unpublicized theatrical run. Despite the studio's lack of confidence, fans have nothing to worry about -- Idiocracy delivers the goods. It begins in the present with career serviceman Joe Bowers (Luke Wilson), an essentially lazy guy biding his time in uniform for the pension to come, being chosen as a guinea pig for an army experiment in cryogenics. Frozen along with a hooker named Rita (Maya Rudolph), Joe is forgotten in the aftermath of a base shutdown and thawed out some 500 years later. By this time, American society has devolved so precipitously that he and Rita are the smartest people in the country. Think of it as Planet of the Butt-heads. Most of the laughs, and there are many, derive from Judge's extrapolations of current social trends: In this Brave New World, the crops are watered with energy drink ("It has the electrolytes plants crave!"); lawyers attain their degrees from Costco; the president is a wrestling champ; and the most popular TV show is Ow! My Balls! In its way, Idiocracy equals in foreboding the widely hailed documentary An Inconvenient Truth. Only it does so with a smile.