I'll admit I did laugh at the jetskis doing donuts in the Lincoln Memorial pool. Still, a salutary reminder that if you do a pro-eugenics movie just one time, people will never let you live it down.
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.
— Reihan Salam (Slate)
The implication that the entire planet now consists of a single country -– or else that, solipsistically speaking, the United States’ lack of awareness of the remainder of the planet has now become total -– is never spelled out, yet it remains inescapable.
— Jonathan Rosenbaum (Idiocracy)
Synopsis: To test its top-secret Human Hibernation Project, the Pentagon picks the most average Americans it can find - an Army private and a prostitute - and sends them to the year 2505 after a series of freak events. But when they arrive, they find a civilization so dumbed-down that they're the smartest people around.