Idiocracy
This is Mike Judge's remake of Sleeper; Mr Average, Luke Wilson, gets put into hibernation and wakes up 500 years later. However, instead of Orgasmatrons and The Orb, everyone has been dumbed down so much that our boy is now the smartest guy on the whole planet. And the same fate awaits him as awaited the brainy kids at school - CHINESE BURN CITY!!!!It's not brilliant, and it spends a lot of time explaining its own humour, but it is sufficiently coarse, and the parody of Fox News is brilliant. To the extent that the studio who paid for it, 20th Century Fox (oops) gave it no publicity and a release on a handful of screens. So, as an exercise in shitting your own toast, it's certainly to be recommended. And it did make me laugh more than a few times, even after I had run 21.1km up and down Buxton in the nasty rain. So it just about scrapes into the good category.
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