WHO would have thought that a lowbrow sci-fi comedy made in 2006 could be so bizarrely prophetic, a mere 18 years after it was released?

"Idiocracy," directed and co-written by Mike Judge, the creator of "Beavis and Butt-Head," tells the story of an average member of the US Army, Joe Bauers (Luke Wilson), who is accidentally sent into the distant future when a secret human hibernation experiment goes awry, and he finally wakes up, not a year later as planned, but in 2505, in a world where stupidity rules.

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