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Not as bad as the studio thinks
by Rolando M (movies profile)
Feb 18, 2008
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38 people found this review helpful
Shame on Fox for burying this film! Mike Judge is awesome, and if they didn't think so they should have never green-lit this movie. This movie is classic Mike Judge humor. I'm not going to go so far as to say it's great, or even that it's better than his cult classic Office Space. But it's worthy.
The basic premise of the movie is that it's asking the question has evolution failed the human species? Dumb trailer park people reproduce like rabbits. You know the ones who try and find the baby's father on Jerry Springer? While intelligent people pass up having kids to have "careers". The story is about an average guy played by Luke Wilson. He's average in every way possible and he gets frozen and woken up in the future, where we see the end result of the path humanity has taken. Everyone is so dumb that Wilson, an average person in our time, is now the smartest man on the planet.
The movie definitely has it's funny moments, the problem I had with the story was the ending. It just felt like he came up with a great premise for a story and just didn't have it go anywhere, like he was just making it up as he went along and it just ends. Come to think of it, that is classic Mike Judge too, it's just not as strong this time around.
It's just really sad that the studio buried the release of this movie after delaying it for so long. If you're not going to support a film maker, why even release the film at all? Just release it on video and be done with it. I don't know what happened behind the scenes but Fox is totally the kind of studio that will cut off it's nose to spite it's face.
If you're a Mike Judge fan I highly recommend this movie, it can't be any worse than Taledega Nights. If you do happen to see this movie STAY TILL THE END OF THE CREDITS! There's a scene that I thought was one of the funniest moments in the whole film. |
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