Idiocracy 2006

J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: The movie is bracing for its bile but ultimately more frustrating than funny. Read more

Nathan Rabin, AV Club: Working on a sprawling canvas, Judge fills the screen with visual jokes, throwaway gags, and incisive commentary on the ubiquity of advertising. Read more

Carina Chocano, Los Angeles Times: 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. Read more

Joshua Rich, Entertainment Weekly: Ow! My brain! Read more

Robert Abele, L.A. Weekly: It's a low-boil affair from the Office Space auteur that wears out its dumb-and-dumbest playbook early on. Read more

Robert Koehler, Variety: Mike Judge's Idiocracy is absolutely a satire for its time. What Judge is less sure of here than in his previous, perfectly pitched live-action comedy Office Space, is how to build a complete movie around his key ideas. Read more

Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: If the world is going to hell in any number of handbaskets -- as Judge so acutely demonstrates that it is -- you might as well hitch a ride in his. Read more