Saturday 21 July 2007

Idiocracy/Judge (2006)

This film, by the maker of the wonderful Office Space and King of the Hill, was suppressed by the studio and only released on DVD. Watching it, it's hard to see why it wasn't released - it's rubbish, but surely no worse than other films of the genre of recent years.

I didn't enjoy this much. The central conceit - that the US in several centuries will have evolved to the lowest common denominator, because of the greater tendency of idiots to reproduce - is one gag, then there are some jokes about how that will manifest itself, and the consequences of not having enough intelligent people to run the country. But it's mostly weak stuff. The concept of the average joe being frozen and waking up in several centuries is a direct steal from Woody Allen's Sleeper and Futurama (although of courseThe Time Machine is the original), and Judge doesn't do anything sufficiently new with it to justify the film.

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