The sad and weird thing is, if you drop the opening bit that’s basically a comedic endorsement of eugenics, it’s a decent satire of American consumerism and privatization. The stupidity of the people of the future the movie represents could just as easily been attributed to education being de-funded and corporations automating everything to the point the whole system runs on auto-pilot with no input from human experts. Edit out the skull measuring bits and I’d probably call it a decent dystopian comedy film.
Idiocracy is a fascist movie about how stupid poor people are having too many babies.
The sad and weird thing is, if you drop the opening bit that’s basically a comedic endorsement of eugenics, it’s a decent satire of American consumerism and privatization. The stupidity of the people of the future the movie represents could just as easily been attributed to education being de-funded and corporations automating everything to the point the whole system runs on auto-pilot with no input from human experts. Edit out the skull measuring bits and I’d probably call it a decent dystopian comedy film.
Mike Judge giveth and taketh away