Idiocracy

It has been remarked time and again that stupid people reliably breed more copiously than the intelligent. While the situation is more complex than this, one does have to wonder if, in a thousand years, the world will be populated exclusively by idiots. While this theme has been explored exhaustively in all types of media (as well as the great experiment we call "Earth") it has never received so brilliant a treatment as in Idiocracy, a comedy from Mike Judge (Ren and Stimpy, King of the Hill). Starring Luke Wilson and Maya Rudolph, Idiocracy is the story of a military experiment into human hibernation gone awry, and the future into which it goes. Five hundred years from the data of the movie's release, in the year 2505, humanity's tendency toward stupidity has resulted in a world in which an average - okay, well, he is a bit sensitive - guy's medical diagnosis is that his "shit is all retarded" and that he "talks like a fag".

We are introduced to this dark future when army librarian and slacker Joe Bauers (Wilson) and prostitute Rita (Rudolph) are frozen and subsequently lost as the result of the pimping-related arrest of the project's point man, played by Michael McCafferty. While they sleep, the world becomes dumber with assorted iterations and a hilarious, illustrative aside on the father of the new, dumber human race. Finally, the world's collective stupidity leads to the Great Garbage Avalanche of 2505, which deposits our protagonist in the apartment of an idiot named Frito Pendejo (Dax Shepard). Frito (best name in the movie, by the way) rises from his toilet-equipped recliner long enough to pitch Joe out his window for interrupting his watching of the classic comedy Ow, My Balls and he is injected into the world of the stupid. Comedy ensues.

Enough about the plot; let me explain why I love this movie - it is absolutely hilarious. After watching it you will be quoting (or attempting to quote) it for weeks. The hits just keep coming... Don't worry scrote. There are plenty of 'tards out there living really kick ass lives. My first wife was 'tarded. She's a pilot now. It just never stops. Next, while it probably can't happen anywhere near this way, it just feels so plausible in so many ways that the movie really works. Finally, this is about the most anti-corporate movie that has come out in years, which is probably why it was only released in a handful of cities and might as well have been straight-to-DVD. The movie has developed a cult following and has so far made about 20 times as much on DVD sales as in the theatrical release.

This movie is absolutely hilarious. You need to see it. There was a time when reading wasn't just for fags, and I believe that time can come again.