Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with another look at Mike Judge's new flick IDIOCRACY. The first review was very complimentary and enjoyed the film a lot. This one didn't and from the sounds of thing he wasn't alone. I really hope this movie isn't a mess. The reshoots and delays make it more than just a possibility, but I have faith in Mike Judge. He hasn't let me down yet, so he's earned my trust. I really don't want to feel like this guy below...
Hey there Quint, been watching the site a long time. I wanted to write about a screening I saw of the new Mike Judge movie a few months ago. I saw the review about it tonight, and noticed there are a lot of people who are excited about this movie as I was. I mean Office Space is one of my favorites. Unfortunately I did not have the experience the other reviewer had.
By now I believe most of you get this gist of the movie, if you don't, just read the last review.
This movie actually started out so promising. Lots of laughs, and we're getting more and more excited to be there. Then it takes a nose dive. And I'm not talking about a slow walk to hell, I'm talking about a double somersault, veritical leap into the deep end, nose dive.
As soon as Luke Wilson's character wakes up in the future this movie becomes awful. It wasn't clever, it wasn't witty, it just wasn't funny. I mean there is only so many times you can make fun of people being stupid, after a while it becomes boring, and repetitive. The last reviewer mentioned some "simple and crass laughs." I would say 90% of the movie is that and basically the same joke over and over again. Its almost the same reason why I hated 3rd Rock from the Sun so much. It was pretty much the same joke every episode.
Not only is it not funny, the acting is atrocious. I'll give it to Mike Judge for trying something completely different for this movie, trying not to copy Office Space, but man, I can't see this movie coming out into theatres, if not just straight to DVD.
I really didn't want to give this movie such a bad review, I didn't, I was so excited to be going, and after it was so bad I honestly thought they might just shelve it for a while, but when I saw the last review on the site I had to say something.
I must also say that I wasn't alone in the audience I was at. People sitting around us were saying things, and not mincing words, about how bad the movie was. People were actually MAD about seeing a movie that was FREE! I hope they did some good reshoots of this movie, because it needed A LOT!
If this is used.....call me DELICIOUS
