Idiocracy
Office Space is definitely my favorite comedy of all time and is up there in favorite movies of all time, so I was obviously interested in Idiocracy. And let me just come right out and say that I didn’t enjoy Idiocracy as much as I enjoyed Office Space.
The premise is that the most average guy and girl are frozen in a secret military experiment and wake up five hundred years in the future. A future where mankind has devolved into couch-with-toilets-built-in potatoes, a future where advertising is everywhere and being the president of the United States is akin to being a WWE champion.
The movie follows a predictable plot where Joe Bauers (The most average guy) ends up saving the world and getting the girl.
The jokes themselves don’t seem to have the same resonance that Office Space, rather with the overbearing narrator and the absolute ridiculous characters it seems to try to hard to be funny. That is Idiocracy’s greatest flaw. Nearly every scene seems to drip with a “Gosh isn’t this is just HILARIOUS!”-sauce. There is taking yourself too seriously and Idiocracy seems to be doing the exact opposite of it to detrimental effect.
The only joy I seemed to get out of the movie was seeing the inventive future stuff: the Starbucks, the advertising-laden television channels, the parody of the U.S. Congress and not giving a rat’s ass about the actual storyline. The movie manages to stay amusing through this long enough to make it through it.
Overall the movie gets half FSFunky stamp of approval.