COMEDY
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Release Date: 2014/09/23
R

Product Description

Meet Joe Bowers (Luke Wilson). He's not the sharpest tool in the shed. But when a government hibernation experiment goes awry?? Bowers awakens in the year 2505 to find a society so dumbed-down by mass commercialism and mindless TV programming that he's become the smartest guy on the planet. Now it's up to an average Joe to get "man evolution back on track.

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Given that Office Space is a bona fide cult classic?? it comes as some surprise that Mike Judge's follow-up wasn't more heavily promoted. Granted?? this live-action comedy is a darker?? more pointed proposition?? but it's unfortunate that few theater patrons got the opportunity to?? well?? judge for themselves. In Idiocracy?? the King of the Hill creator visualizes what would happen if Devo's proposition--that mankind is in the process of devolution--came to pass. The catalyst: the overeducated start having fewer children while the undereducated have more. Enter Joe (Luke Wilson)?? a military librarian with no family and even less ambition. The Pentagon chooses him for a top-secret hibernation project due to his extreme "ness." They select Rita (SNL's Maya Rudolph)?? a prostit