Idiocracy (-)

This film's handling is perhaps its most idiotic notion. It had some truly great bits of satire in it. The hospital admittance system with pictures of illnesses for the dimwitted clerk to hit was particularly inspired. I also liked Luke Wilson as an everyman. He's a fairly likable fellow, but has a few bad movies under his belt (see Home Fries.) So the film has a good premise and a good actor. Unfortunately the rest of the film did not fare so well.

I think the main problem lies with the fact the populace was so stupid it was antagonizing. By the end of the film you just wanted everyone to die. Their speech was so annoying. I know it was intentional, but sheesh, it just got way under my skin. Also the jabs at low-brow humor basically turned into low brow humor itself. Kinda like how Larry the Cable Guy became what he made fun of, a bigot; this film becomes a big low-brow comedy which is what it was making fun of. So enjoy if you like lots of body humor and people acting idiotic because that is all this film has to offer. Perhaps its because Fox took it out of the hands of its director (the man who brought us Office Space) but I think the problem was that it was too stupid.

Pros: A few moments of good satire, Luke Wilson
Cons: Too dumb for its own good