IDIOCRACY Beavis and Butt Head, Office Space, Idiocracy. Mike Judge, the creator of the successful MTV cartoon series made Office Space, and watched its release get fouled up. A bust in theaters, it has become a mainstay of Comedy Central, and a source of numerous quotations on college campuses across America. The news that he was going to finally make another feature was met with great enthusiasm. The only problem is that the follow up, Idiocracy, the story of an army experiment gone wrong, was unceremoniously released in just a couple of theaters, and disappeared even before those who would seek it out could find it. Now that the Luke Wilson comedy is on DVD, fans can finally see the story of an army Joe (Wilson), who is frozen for 500 years, and winds up in a future America, where the average IQ has plummeted and he is the smartest man alive, the second smartest? His co-freeze, Maya Rudolph, a hooker who still thinks her pimp will find her, 500 years later. The premise holds real promise, but the jokes become repetitive after the first five minutes, and the choice to not only make the folks of the future dumb, but also unpleasant, and, in many cases, drooling inarticulate, means that Wilson has no one to play off of. The answers to his questions are usually blank stares from the ignoramuses of the future. Soon, he is serving as Secretary of the Interior, under a former pro-wrestler turned President. In the white house, he briefly meets Horatio Sans, and Dax Shepherd. Their characters main contributions are laughing at any mention of screwing. The fact that an omniscient narrator drops in every few minutes to tell us what is going on is a sure sign that this is not how the movie was intended to play. As the narrator drones on, scenes become montages of long sequences that were obviously filmed and then scrapped. With total running time a little less than 75 minutes, it is even clearer that either the studio interfered and drastic cuts were made, or that everyone involved became aware just how badly scenes were unfolding and decided to cut their losses. Someday, there will surely be a director's cut on DVD, and audiences can decide for themselves. From the evidence here, my guess is those scenes were just as bad as the ones evident in this version.