2006 - Rated R - 1 hr 24 min
Director: Mike Judge
Starring: Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph, Dax Shepard, Terry Crews, David Herman, Justin Long
This movie is both hillarious and terrifying. What would happen if stupid people kept reproducing and smart people stopped? What if eventually the scales tipped in favor of mankind's less intelligent? Not only would Darwin rollover in his grave, but the events portrayed in this movie might actually happen.
Luke Wilson and Maya Rudolph participate in an army program that freezes them, then gets shut down, leaving them in their pods for 500 years before they are accidentally opened up and set loose into the world. Society is filled with idiots and the world is suffering. Wilson now finds himself the smartest man in the world, a title which brings great responsibility. Can he help save the crops and solve all the world's problems in one week? Or will he be executed, Colosseum style?
This movie is mostly low-brow comedy, but I think it's pretty funny. And Terry Crews as president is just about my favorite thing in the entire movie.
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