Idiocracy
This entry was posted on 9/8/2006 2:01 PM and is filed under Film Reviews.
With his anarchic, low-fi
1999 comedy Office Space, Mike Judge had his finger right on the zeitgeist pulse of the surging absurdity of contemporary workplace culture. The film fizzled at the box office, though, the result of a mangled and halting advertising campaign;
it would have to settle for the designation of "cult classic," though it went on to earn distributor 20th Century Fox much loot in the form of DVD sales. (It remains a top seller for the studio.)
The same thing seems to be happening to
Judge's live-action follow-up, Idiocracy, which was secreted out to 130 theaters last week in an unpublicized, cover-of-night, seven-city dump worthy of a presidential excursion to Baghdad.
Murder victims have been dumped less deviously than this. So what gives?
For the joint review and exploration of Fox's self-snuffed release of the movie, from FilmStew, click here. 
