I saw this sometime back in 2009-10, and thought it was kind of fun, but completely over the top and ridiculous. It felt like a wafer thin plot used to run one cheap joke after the other, all based on roughly the same premise. That humanity's race towards stupidity, in 500 years time, has reached maximum peak.

Well... Guess what...

It is now August 2020 and I just saw this again, for the second time in my life. It turns out Idiocracy has transformed into some sort of Kafka'esque nightmare! When watching those first ten minutes after Joe wakes up in 2505, when he's walking around trying to get his bearings in the sea of morons, getting assaulted because he sounds smart, I wasn't thinking "this is beyond ridiculous" (like I did 11-12 years ago). Now I just couldn't help feeling totally frustrated about the whole situation, and empathetic with Joe. My wife, who was seeing it for the first time, reacted with a blunt "This is a total nightmare!".

Don't get me wrong now. This is still a great comedy, it has just gone from an over-the-top ridiculous one, to a prophetic piece of commentary on current society. It was of course just that even back in 2006, but it was just NO WAY to imagine how far (or low) we would have come in a mere 14 years. I think Mike Judge's estimate of 500 years is far too generous. We'll reach Idiocracy in no more than 100 - unless we manage to blow ourselves up before that, which actually seem far more likely.

I gave this film 10 out of 10 as it's the most accurate film depiction I've seen of what the future holds.

The future was 500 years ahead but from what I see here in the UK the UK the USA and most of Europe will reach the future as depicted in this film a lot quicker than 500 years from now. The dumbing down of "newspapers" and TV is speeding up and the level of ignorance of those under 25 is shocking, I was born in the 1950's and had a proper education compared to that supplied over the last 30 years or so.

This film should be shown to all in the teaching profession, TV programme makers and politicians before it's too late.

The constant lowering of the average IQ of the population is a bigger threat than global warming or any other danger to the planet.

Unfortunately for us this film could be an accurate vision of the future.

I have added this thought in December 2015, this might be the only film on IMDb where the lower the total score it achieves the more it proves that those who gave it a 10/10 score were correct to do so.

Here we are in November 2021 and the accuracy of the predictions in this film are confirmed with every passing year.