Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 3:49 pm
A Mike Judge film (He bought you Office Space, Beavis and Butthead, and King of the Hill.)
I won't lie. I loved this movie because of the first 2 minutes. After that, it's pretty much the same joke over and over, but it's tolerable. Why? Because, as one person on IMDB said, "I thought it was a documentary."
Luke Wilson stars as a perfectly average guy who volunteers for an army experiment in which he is frozen for one year. The problem is that things go wrong and he doesn't get thawed for 500 years.
He awakens to find the world run by the lowest common denominator. People care only about money, marketing is everywhere, most people only have the most rudimentary skills to survive, language has reduced to mostly slang, etc.
Soon it's learned that he's the smartest man alive and he must accept the task of saving the world.
Ok honestly, it's a stupid film. People in the future being stupid is the core joke and is repeated constantly. However, there's a biting commentary on this country's current direction here that isn't subtle and Mike Judge uses this film's dialogue and story to beat you over the head with it.
This isn't the worst film you'll ever see, but it's not Demolition Man either. (Let that comparison sink in for a minute.)
It really is worth a rental if you're a fan of Darwin and can understand going in that it's a lot of dumb humor. On the other hand, if you have strong political beliefs about the "humanity" in paying people to stay at home and breed instead of work then you might get a bit offended.
Here, all you need to know about the movie in the first two minutes.
5 out of 10.
I won't lie. I loved this movie because of the first 2 minutes. After that, it's pretty much the same joke over and over, but it's tolerable. Why? Because, as one person on IMDB said, "I thought it was a documentary."
Luke Wilson stars as a perfectly average guy who volunteers for an army experiment in which he is frozen for one year. The problem is that things go wrong and he doesn't get thawed for 500 years.
He awakens to find the world run by the lowest common denominator. People care only about money, marketing is everywhere, most people only have the most rudimentary skills to survive, language has reduced to mostly slang, etc.
Soon it's learned that he's the smartest man alive and he must accept the task of saving the world.
Ok honestly, it's a stupid film. People in the future being stupid is the core joke and is repeated constantly. However, there's a biting commentary on this country's current direction here that isn't subtle and Mike Judge uses this film's dialogue and story to beat you over the head with it.
This isn't the worst film you'll ever see, but it's not Demolition Man either. (Let that comparison sink in for a minute.)
It really is worth a rental if you're a fan of Darwin and can understand going in that it's a lot of dumb humor. On the other hand, if you have strong political beliefs about the "humanity" in paying people to stay at home and breed instead of work then you might get a bit offended.
Here, all you need to know about the movie in the first two minutes.
5 out of 10.