Idiocracy
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation | Release Date: September 1, 2006 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
66
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 12 Critic Reviews
Positive:
8
Mixed:
4
Negative:
0
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91
The A.V. ClubNathan Rabin
There's a good chance that Judge's smartly lowbrow Idiocracy will be mistaken for what it's satirizing, but good satire always runs the risk -- of being misunderestimated. Read full review
80
Village VoiceBilge Ebiri
Ten years later, Idiocracy’s real achievement isn’t how much of it has come true, but how much it continues to disturb. Read full review
80
SlateReihan Salam
Idiocracy is easily the most potent political film of the year, and the most stirring defense of traditional values since Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesCarina Chocano
The plot, naturally, is silly and not exactly bound by logic. But it's Judge's gimlet-eyed knack for nightmarish extrapolation that makes Idiocracy a cathartic delight. Read full review
80
Film ThreatPete Vonder Haar
It elicits so many laughs, in fact, that you have to wonder just what Judge did to piss off the suits at Fox so much that they would willingly torpedo one of the only genuinely hilarious movies to come out this year. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineFernando F. Croce
Idiocracy is too scattershot and compromised to push the conceptual bleakness beyond the realm of lowbrow comedy, though Judge’s cultural ire remains bracing throughout: For all the characters’ slapsticky imbecility, Judge makes it clear that it’s their docile acceptance (read: political inactivity) that makes them true dumbasses. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterSheri Linden
Idiocracy, is often stingingly funny -- and an undeserving resident of the summer's-end movie dumping ground. Read full review
67
Austin ChronicleMarjorie Baumgarten
The delivery in Idiocracy is frequently flat, but it's vision is dead-on. Read full review
60
EmpireNick de Semlyen
It’s no masterpiece and admittedly slight at 85 minutes long. But Idiocracy is that rarest of things in this age of lazy laughs — a gutsy comedy with something to say. More importantly, it’s funny. Read full review
60
VarietyRobert Koehler
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 full review
40
L.A. WeeklyRobert Abele
If you crave a lively and funny trek through the farcical possibilities of unchecked dimwit power, Judge is still your guy. Just go rent "Beavis and Butt-Head Do America" instead. Read full review
40
Chicago ReaderJ.R. Jones
Judge races through some of his most provocative ideas in the opening minutes and ignores his story's many logical inconsistencies; the movie is bracing for its bile but ultimately more frustrating than funny. Read full review
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