Gefreiter Joe Bauer, ein Paradebeispiel für den "durchschnittlichsten Durchschnittsamerikaner", wird vom Pentagon für ein Kälteschlafprogramm ausgewählt. Schon längst vergessen wacht er fünf... Alles lesenGefreiter Joe Bauer, ein Paradebeispiel für den "durchschnittlichsten Durchschnittsamerikaner", wird vom Pentagon für ein Kälteschlafprogramm ausgewählt. Schon längst vergessen wacht er fünf Jahrhunderte später wieder auf. Er stellt fest, dass das geistige Niveau der Gesellschaft... Alles lesenGefreiter Joe Bauer, ein Paradebeispiel für den "durchschnittlichsten Durchschnittsamerikaner", wird vom Pentagon für ein Kälteschlafprogramm ausgewählt. Schon längst vergessen wacht er fünf Jahrhunderte später wieder auf. Er stellt fest, dass das geistige Niveau der Gesellschaft inzwischen so tief gesunken ist, dass es für ihn ein Leichtes ist, als intelligentester M... Alles lesen
- Auszeichnungen
- 1 Nominierung insgesamt
- President Camacho
- (as Terry Alan Crews)
- Bailiff
- (as Kevin S. McAfee)
- Officer Collins
- (as Mike McCafferty)
- Hospital Technician
- (as Ryan Melton)
Zusammenfassung
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Mike Judge placed the action some 500 years in the future. Looks like his clock ran free for a while -for it's been only 12 years, and we're almost there... Suffice to say, if a real life Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho ever runs for President, I'll have to give him a minimally serious consideration.
But no electrolytes for me, thanks.
Mike Judge's tale is a riff on Woody Allen's SLEEPER where a man from the present ends up in a future he doesn't recognize. An "average Joe" (Luke Wilson) circa 2005 wakes up centuries in the future to find a world so dumbed down that he's the smartest man around! Joe meets up with Frito (Dax Shepard) and Rita (Maya Rudolph) and they end up in the orbit of the boisterous President Camacho (Terry Crews). Together they try to upgrade the intelligence of the American public - good luck with that!
Judge and Etan Cohen's screenplay is a bit scattershot at times, but it is fitfully hilarious too. The most popular show on TV is "Ow! My Balls!" about the various way a man's marbles can be whacked. Costcos are the size of cities and junk food is not only king - but, often the full meal. Again - is this really "centuries from now?". The supporting cast include Thomas Haden Church as Brawndo's CEO and uncredited bits by Sara Rue and Stephen Root.
Fox was so scared of the film it was barely released. Even when theaters requested the rights to show the movie, they were often denied. Of course, this only made the cult surrounding it only that much stronger.
Now, sit back, take a big swig of Brawndo and enjoy the future! Er...the present....? Past?
Still if you feel uneasy watching this, it doesn't mean something is wrong with you. Quite the opposite is the case, everything is right with you. Quite ridiculous at times, it is there for entertainment purposes ... no really! They weren't trying to do a documentary! All kidding aside, this can be viewed as fun - no matter what your political background is.
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- WissenswertesWriter and Director Mike Judge came up with the idea for the film while he was visiting Disneyland with his family and saw two mothers, with kids in strollers, fighting and cursing at each other. He thought it would be horrible if humanity was like this in the future.
- PatzerIn the montage following his initiative to irrigate the crops with water rather than Brawndo, the crowd chant "Joe, Joe". But they all know him by the name "Not Sure".
- Zitate
[first lines]
Narrator: As the twenty-first century began, human evolution was at a turning point. Natural selection, the process by which the strongest, the smartest, the fastest reproduced in greater numbers than the rest, a process which had once favored the noblest traits of man, now began to favor different traits. Most science fiction of the day predicted a future that was more civilized and more intelligent. But, as time went on, things seemed to be heading in the opposite direction. A dumbing down. How did this happen? Evolution does not necessarily reward intelligence. With no natural predators to thin the herd, it began to simply reward those who reproduced the most, and left the intelligent to become an endangered species.
- Crazy CreditsAfter the credits there is a scene in which Upgrayedd arrives into the future to look for Rita.
- VerbindungenFeatured in The Chibi Project: Sailor Soldiers vs Fresnel Lens (2007)
- SoundtracksTrio Sonata No. 1 in G
Written by Domenico Gallo
Performed by The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Courtesy of Extreme Production Music
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Details
- Erscheinungsdatum
- Herkunftsland
- Sprache
- Auch bekannt als
- Idiocracia
- Drehorte
- Austin Convention Center - 500 E. Cesar Chavez Street, Austin, Texas, USA(Escalator/Tattoo/IQ Test)
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Box Office
- Budget
- 2.400.000 $ (geschätzt)
- Bruttoertrag in den USA und Kanada
- 444.093 $
- Eröffnungswochenende in den USA und in Kanada
- 124.367 $
- 3. Sept. 2006
- Weltweiter Bruttoertrag
- 495.652 $
- Laufzeit
- 1 Std. 24 Min.(84 min)
- Farbe
- Sound-Mix
- Seitenverhältnis
- 1.85 : 1