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Mike Judge’s latest live action film after the classic ‘Office Space’ is a great, light-weight, but often hilarious, stoner sci-fi comedy. It’s straight to DVD (out today!) in the UK and only had a contractually obliged mini-theatrical run in the US in late 2006. The idea of a massively dumbed down future society with stores called things like Buttfuckers and swipes at Starbucks (where you now get hand jobs) Carl Jr (motto: “Fuck you! I’m Eating!) and digs at Fox News can’t have impressed top brass at Twentieth Century Fox (the film’s owner) much. They’re lying to us maaaaan! Or is it simply that the film is a little weak?

Nope, this is a decent comedy, and it gave me a couple of the biggest belly laughs I’ve had watching a film for ages. It’s like a stoner, slightly gross out comedy version of Total Recall without the trippiness but with added Robocop future satire. Actually, it’s more like a live action Simpson’s episode. I’m not the only one the digs it, it had 68% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes and generally decent reviews on release. As film viewers we are regularly subjected to extremely weak high concept comedy from major studios. Idiocracy’s an example of one of these which is actually funny AND has something to say. Damn shame it didn’t get a chance to win an audience. I would totally recommend owning of a copy of the film. Fox execs, your idiocy is ironic. So fuck you! I’m eating!

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