Bauers discovers that the nation's crops are being watered with Brawndo, a sports drink produced by a company that also owns the FDA, FCC, and USDA. President Camacho introduces Bauers to the cabinet and gives him the impossible job of fixing a nationwide food shortage, constant Dust Bowls, and a crippled economy within one week. The three venture through a gigantic Costco store, where Bauers is identified by a tattoo scanner and arrested.īauers is taken to the White House and is appointed Secretary of the Interior as the IQ test he took in prison determined he is the smartest man in the world. Bauers is renamed "Not Sure" by a faulty speech-recognition tattooing machine, escapes from jail by telling the guards that he is meant to be released, and finds Pendejo, who reveals that there is a time machine that can travel back to 2005 Pendejo agrees to guide Bauers and Rita to the time machine after Bauers promises to make him rich via compound interest on a bank account he will open in Pendejo's name when he arrives in the past. Rita resumes her job as a prostitute, but soon realizes that people have become so stupid that they will pay her if she only promises to sleep with them. Arrested for not having a bar code tattoo to pay for his doctor's appointment, he is sent to prison after the grossly incompetent Pendejo acts as his lawyer. Believing that he is hallucinating after a year of hibernation, Bauers enters a hospital and realizes the truth. Despite advances in technology, innovations are driven by garish commercialism or extreme simplicity. He wanders around what was once Washington, D.C., and finds a population that has become profoundly anti-intellectual, speaking only low registers of English and wallowing in overconsumption and low-brow pop culture. Bauers crashes into the apartment of Frito Pendejo. Over the next several hundred years, societal expectations and technological advances lead the most intelligent humans to go childless, while the least intelligent reproduce indiscriminately and create increasingly more stupid generations.įive hundred years later, Bauers and Rita's hibernation chambers, now part of a giant pile of garbage, are unearthed in an avalanche. When the officer in charge is arrested for running his own prostitution ring under Upgrayedd's tutelage, the experiment is hushed up, but by then both Bauers and Rita have already been frozen. Lacking a suitable female candidate, the military hires prostitute Rita by paying off her pimp, Upgrayedd. Army librarian Joe Bauers is selected for a government hibernation experiment as the " most average individual" in the entire military. The film received mostly positive reviews from critics, who praised its cathartic themes. Since its DVD release, the film has indeed developed a cult following, despite its lackluster performance at the box office. Idiocracy was released in the United States on September 1, 2006. According to Crews, the film's satirical depiction of corporations made the film financially unviable, while Judge attributed 20th Century Fox's decision to negative test screenings Judge stated that 20th Century Fox believed that the film would develop a cult following through its DVD release, similar to Office Space. The decision not to market Idiocracy was seen as unexpected, following the success of Office Space (1999), and led to speculation. 20th Century Fox was hesitant to promote the film, refusing to grant it a wide release and did not screen the film for critics. Idiocracy serves as a social satire that touches on issues including anti-intellectualism, capitalism, commercialism, consumerism, corporatocracy, dysgenics, and overpopulation. Filming took place throughout 2004 at Austin Studios and other cities in Texas. Judge finished the script for 3001 in 2001, rewriting the film a year later. The concept of Idiocracy dates back to a concept Judge envisioned in 1996. The cast includes Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph, Dax Shepard, Terry Crews, David Herman, Justin Long, Andrew Wilson, and Brad Jordan. Army librarian Joe Bauers, who wakes up five hundred years in the future after a botched government hibernation experiment to find himself in a dystopian society run by corporations, where evolution has made humanity stupid because people no longer had to be intelligent and physically fit to survive due to the benefits of technology. Idiocracy is a 2006 American science fiction comedy film directed by Mike Judge and co-written by Judge and Etan Cohen.
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