Who here can't wait to see Mike Judge's "Idiocracy"?

[Taverner]

It looks hilarious!

"What does Mike Judge have to do to get a movie released and marketed? He could stop making satires as merciless and spot-on as this one, for one thing. His second film in seven years, "Idiocracy," was completed nearly two years ago and dumped on Friday, reviewless and unmarketed, in six markets not including New York and San Francisco. (Because who could possibly be interested in the long-awaited movie by the director of "Office Space" there?) It's this sort of vote of no-confidence that gets people wondering — just how bad could it be? Which raises the issue of what "bad" means to the studio that unleashed "Date Movie" and "Garfield: A Tale of Two Kitties" on an unsuspecting populace.

Judge has a gift for delivering brutal satire in the trappings of low comedy and for making heroes out of ordinary people whose humanity makes them suspect in a world where every inch of space, including mental, is mediated. The movie would be worth seeing for its skewering of the health system alone — in the future, hospitals will resemble a cross between a chain auto-diagnostic center and a Carl's Jr., powered by Help Me technology — even if its opening thesis on the moment in history (roughly now) that evolution tipped into devolution weren't so clear-eyed."


SNIP


http://www.calendarlive.com/movies/reviews/cl-et-idiocracy4sep04,0,3328767.story

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

1. I can't!

God knows when I'm going to get to see it though -- probably through an import DVD.

[Radical Activist]

2. Mike Judge is one of the great comic geniuses of our time.

If a studio doesn't want to release his work then the studio most be full of morons.