***1/2 – Perhaps the best things about this movie were small roles for the guys who played Future Man and Bob Mapplethorpe in “Bottle Rocket”. Besides that pleasant surprise, this Mike Judge film has a lot of funny parts - especially toward the beginning – but sort of goes awry and gets really goofy as it nears the end. Many people (i.e. nerds) criticized this film due to its similarities to “Futurama”. I discounted these at first, but as I continued to watch, it struck me just how many similarities there are; not so much to the main plot of the series, but to various plots from several episodes. Be that as it may, this is still a pretty entertaining flick.
Idiocracy
***1/2 – Perhaps the best things about this movie were small roles for the guys who played Future Man and Bob Mapplethorpe in “Bottle Rocket”. Besides that pleasant surprise, this Mike Judge film has a lot of funny parts - especially toward the beginning – but sort of goes awry and gets really goofy as it nears the end. Many people (i.e. nerds) criticized this film due to its similarities to “Futurama”. I discounted these at first, but as I continued to watch, it struck me just how many similarities there are; not so much to the main plot of the series, but to various plots from several episodes. Be that as it may, this is still a pretty entertaining flick.
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