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.
It's a low-boil affair from the Office Space auteur that wears out its dumb-and-dumbest playbook early on.
– Robert Abele,
L.A. Weekly,
5 Sep 2006
fresh:
Judge has a gift for delivering brutal satire in the trappings of low comedy and for making heroes out of ordinary people whose humanity makes them suspect in a world where every inch of space, including mental, is mediated.
– Carina Chocano,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Sep 2006
fresh:
Working on a sprawling canvas, Judge fills the screen with visual jokes, throwaway gags, and incisive commentary on the ubiquity of advertising.
– Nathan Rabin,
AV Club,
8 Sep 2006
rotten:
The movie is bracing for its bile but ultimately more frustrating than funny.
– J. R. Jones,
Chicago Reader,
3 Oct 2006
fresh:
If the world is going to hell in any number of handbaskets -- as Judge so acutely demonstrates that it is -- you might as well hitch a ride in his.