1/5 dumb
  by Anthony P. Mccracken (Iowa)
Although I fear the premise for this movie is true the movie itself wasn't worth watching.

5/5 The Sad Truth
  by Jelly Jar (Collinsville, IL USA)
The sad truth is that the world is going to hell in a hand-basket (whatever a hand-basket is,) and here we sit watching it go. All the while we are thinking that someone else is taking care of it so that it doesn't happen. But who are we to rely on...really? The government? The avaricious corporate executives and the ever-greedy companies they represent? The car companies? The power companies? Wall Street advisers? Nope, none of them. Because this, my friends, is a world of self-indulgence. Look at the salaries of baseball players, and then try to argue otherwise. Look at how much a large portion of "no talent" actors (like Miley Cyrus) bring home while the vast majority of the U.S. population live vicariously through them, and then tell me that this economy isn't screwed up nine ways to blue hell!

"Idiocracy" paints a picture. A picture of reality that is probably closer in the future than the 500 years depicted in the movie. It is a picture of a world that has fallen apart...fallen apart due to greed, insecurity, vanquished self-esteem, and pure idiocy! Through all the funny stuff here, i.e.; site gags, blank looks, and witty quips, the underlying message shines like a beacon on a moonless night. This movie is a valuable lesson just as much as it is a comedy.

Heed the message.
Love the movie.

FIVE STARS! *****

3/5 Sadly it isn't taking five hundred years
  by lighten_up_already2 (Kirkland, WA USA)
Imagine a world where the government goes in debt to destroy perfectly good cars. Imagine a world where the government tries to take over healthcare and when the over-a-thousand-pages bill fails to gain traction, they replace it with a bill just shy of two thousand pages and think it's an improvement, and we can't read it to save our lives, even though we may have to some day. Imagine utopia created by printing money. OOPS, that's what our federal government is doing!

Imagine a city where they paint bike trail signs on the pavement down the middle of arterial streets to encourage bikers (the pedal variety) to bike in with traffic. OOPS, that's where I live!

Imagine a school system where the teachers, who get paid in US money and have the American flag flying over the building, have the kindergarteners singing John Lennon's "Imagine" and imagining their country away. OOPS, that's reality for me!

I really belive that about half our citizenry simply doesn't know what it takes to have a civilization, and they don't care that they don't know. And a huge segment of those people actually are stupid enough to romanticize how great it would be if it all went away.

So, after that rant I'll say that even with the crass, vulgar, and potty humor that I usually don't gravitate towards I just had to sigh and think "right on" when this movie was over. It just seems to be coming true even more quickly than Mike Judge imagined. Maybe more like 2105.

I expected a low budget movie, so I was rather pleasantly suprised at the matte paintings and some genuine attempts to show what our society would look like after a few more centuries of decline. Basically, a culture of people with the intellectual capacity of cave-people running on the last fumes of the civilization they inherited. So, the sets and effects were actually better than I expected, and the actors did pretty fair job too. And, there are enough sight gags and things that go by really fast that it would stand up to a repeat viewing.

This isn't a perfect movie or even close, but I'm surprised it didn't get a wider audience, but was rather an anomaly that I just stumbed into and decided to watch. If only it wasn't so close to being a documentary.


5/5 Sometimes the Truth is Funny
  by Harvey Danger (Colorado)
What can you say about this movie? Is it satire if it is really true? As someone who works on the Labor and Delivery ward, there is more truth in this film than most people want to believe. Funny movie! Watch it and see where the world is heading.

5/5 Idiocracy on Point
  by Stephen G. Weiss
Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, Kansas, Kentucky, Georgia, Tennessee. If you've ever lived or traveled through any of these states then you will recognize the cast of characters in Idiocracy. This is the best depiction of the people who live and thrive in states where their best times of their lives were spent in 8th grade and everything they know they truly learned in Kindergarten. This is a must see movie for people concerned with the direction the country has taken - especially educators whom my kids are convinced can roll back the tide of idiocracy that has gripped our nation since Fox News and Jerry Springer took to the airwaves!