An Ordinary Man Wakes Up in a Future Ruled by Complete Idiots

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What if you woke up 500 years in the future… and everyone was an idiot?  That’s exactly what happens to our main character—an average guy who gets frozen in an experiment gone wrong. When he wakes up, the world has completely fallen apart. Corporations run everything, intelligence is extinct, and people are watering crops with energy drinks because “it’s got electrolytes.”  Now, this regular dude is somehow the smartest person alive—and the only one who might be able to save humanity… if it’s not already too late.  This movie is hilarious, ridiculous, and maybe even a little too real. Stick around for the full recap, and if you enjoy it, hit that LIKE button and SUBSCRIBE for more crazy movie breakdowns!  Would you survive in a world like this? Drop a comment below!  Subscribe for more wild movie recaps!  All footage and media used in this video fall under fair use for news reporting and commentary purposes.

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00:00Hello there! Welcome to Cineplot Recap.

00:04Today we are going to go through the American comedy movie Idiocracy.

00:10Idiocracy, 2006, is a satirical sci-fi comedy directed by Mike Judge,

00:16director of Office Space, Beavis, and Butthead.

00:19The movie stars Luke Wilson and Maya Rudolph as two average people

00:24who are put into hibernation for 500 years,

00:27only to wake up in a future where society has become incredibly dumb.

00:32The smartest person in the world is now just an average guy from the past.

00:37It was kind of a cult film at first, but over time people have pointed to it as eerily prophetic.

00:43A lot of its jokes about anti-intellectualism, corporate control, and mindless entertainment feel way too real now.

00:51Please sit back, relax, and let us walk you through the movie Idiocracy.

00:56In the year 2005, Joe Bowers was just about the most average man you could find.

01:02A completely unremarkable army librarian.

01:06He did his job with minimal enthusiasm, never excelling, never failing, just existing.

01:12It was this very mediocrity that made him the perfect candidate for a top-secret government experiment,

01:19the Human Hibernation Project.

01:21Plan was simple.

01:23Joe, along with a second test subject, would be frozen for one year to test the viability of long-term cryogenic sleep.

01:31His counterpart in the experiment, a prostitute named Rita,

01:35had been roped in through a shady deal between the military and her pimp upgrade,

01:40who was more than happy to loan her out for a cut of the money.

01:43But things didn't go as planned.

01:47Not long after Joe and Rita were sealed in their hibernation pods,

01:50the officer in charge of the project was arrested in a corruption scandal,

01:55and the entire program was shut down and forgotten.

01:58Pods remained buried beneath a military storage facility,

02:02lost to time as years turned into decades and decades into centuries.

02:07By the year 2505, the world had changed drastically and not for the better.

02:14Civilization had crumbled under the weight of its own stupidity.

02:19Kaiscrapers were in ruins, entire cities were drowning in mountains of garbage,

02:24and society was ruled by mindless consumerism.

02:28People had lost the ability to think critically,

02:31relying instead on corporations to tell them what to eat, drink, and believe.

02:35Language had deteriorated into a mix of crude slang, grunts, and brand names,

02:41and technology, despite being advanced,

02:43was used in the most absurdly inefficient ways imaginable.

02:48Then, one day, a massive garbage avalanche

02:50triggered by centuries of accumulated waste

02:53crashed into Joe's forgotten pod,

02:56dislodging it from its resting place.

02:58The door burst open,

03:00and Joe tumbled out onto the floor of an unfamiliar apartment.

03:04Groggy and confused,

03:06he had no idea he had just woken up 500 years in the future.

03:12Daggering outside,

03:13Joe found himself in a world that barely resembled the one he had left.

03:18Enormous advertisements covered every inch of every building,

03:22flashing obnoxiously bright colors and shouting nonsensical slogans.

03:26People walked around in tattered,

03:29futuristic-looking clothes adorned with corporate logos,

03:33sipping from giant plastic cups filled with what seemed to be a combination of soda and sludge.

03:39The air was thick with pollution,

03:41and the streets were filled with the sounds of blaring television screens,

03:45honking cars,

03:46and people screaming at each other in barely comprehensible sentences.

03:50Till dazed,

03:51Joe made his way to what he thought was a hospital,

03:55seeking help for his sudden headache and disorientation.

03:59Inside, he was met by a doctor,

04:01if you could even call him that,

04:03who wore a garish,

04:04branded uniform and spoke in a slow,

04:06stilted drawl.

04:08The medical equipment looked advanced,

04:10but it was operated by clueless staff who relied entirely on touchscreen prompts.

04:15The doctor scanned Joe with a device and delivered his diagnosis in the simplest terms possible.

04:22Joe quickly realized he was in trouble.

04:26When the doctor asked for his barcode tattoo,

04:29apparently the only form of identification anyone used in this time,

04:33Joe had no answer.

04:35The doctor, assuming he was an unregistered criminal,

04:39promptly called the authorities.

04:41Before Joe knew what was happening,

04:43he was arrested and taken to prison,

04:46where he was processed in an absurdly automated system

04:49that stamped a barcode onto his wrist and threw him into a cell.

04:54But if there was one advantage to being the only somewhat intelligent person in a world of idiots,

04:59it was that escaping from prison turned out to be laughably easy.

05:04When a guard instructed prisoners to line up in the exit line,

05:08Joe simply walked right out without anyone questioning him.

05:11Desperate for answers,

05:14he tracked down the only person he had encountered before his arrest,

05:17Frito Pendello,

05:19the moronic, couch-bound man whose apartment he had crashed into earlier.

05:24Frito, a lawyer in name only,

05:26was watching television when Joe barged in,

05:28demanding to know what year it was.

05:31When Frito casually mentioned

05:332505,

05:35Joe nearly passed out from shock.

05:37Realizing that this world was beyond saving

05:40and that his only hope was to get back to his own time,

05:43Joe asked Frito if there was a way to travel back.

05:47To his surprise,

05:48Frito mentioned something about a time machine

05:51that supposedly existed somewhere in the country.

05:54Seeing an opportunity,

05:56Joe promised Frito an obscene amount of money,

05:59something like billions of dollars,

06:01if he would take him to it.

06:02Since no one in this era understood basic economics,

06:07Frito instantly agreed,

06:08dreaming of his future fortune.

06:11Meanwhile,

06:12Rita had also awakened from her hibernation pod,

06:15dumped unceremoniously into a landfill.

06:19Unlike Joe,

06:20she quickly adapted to her surroundings,

06:22realizing that men in this world

06:24were even dumber and more gullible

06:26than they had been in 2005.

06:28She effortlessly scammed her way through town,

06:31convincing men to give her money for her services

06:34while making vague promises

06:36that she had no intention of keeping.

06:39Eventually,

06:39she reunited with Joe,

06:41who explained the dire situation.

06:44Together,

06:45they set out to find the so-called time machine.

06:48However,

06:49their journey took an unexpected turn

06:51when Joe was identified by a government database

06:54as having the highest IQ in the country.

06:57Within hours,

06:58he was dragged before President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain

07:01due Herbert Camacho,

07:03a former professional wrestler and reality TV star

07:06who had somehow become the leader of the United States.

07:10Camacho,

07:11loud,

07:11aggressive,

07:12and barely coherent,

07:13introduced Joe to the nation

07:15as the smartest guy alive

07:17and immediately appointed him

07:18Secretary of the Interior.

07:21His mission?

07:22To fix the country's biggest problems,

07:25a failing economy,

07:26a food crisis,

07:27and relentless dust storms.

07:30And he had one week to do it.

07:32As Joe explored the causes of the nation's decline,

07:36he discovered a shocking revelation.

07:39Crops weren't growing

07:40because they were being watered with Brondo,

07:42an energy drink.

07:43When he asked why,

07:45people simply responded,

07:47because it's got electrolytes.

07:50No one could explain what electrolytes were,

07:52but they had been brainwashed to believe

07:54that Brondo was essential for plant life.

07:58In reality,

07:59it was poisoning the soil.

08:01Joe ordered the government

08:02to switch back to watering crops

08:05with actual water.

08:07What he didn't realize, however,

08:08was that Brondo was such a massive corporation

08:11that when its stock crashed due to declining sales,

08:14millions of people were laid off overnight.

08:17A furious mob,

08:18now jobless and hungry,

08:20blamed Joe for their misfortune

08:22and demanded his execution.

08:25President Camacho,

08:26eager to maintain his popularity,

08:28sentenced Joe to rehabilitation,

08:30which in this era meant a deathmatch

08:32in a giant arena

08:33against a monstrous flame-spewing vehicle

08:36driven by a legendary executioner

08:38named Beef Supreme.

08:40Just as Joe was about to be crushed,

08:43Frito and Rita discovered

08:44that his water plan had actually worked.

08:47Crops were beginning to grow again.

08:50The news spread,

08:51and at the last moment,

08:52the crowd's anger turned to admiration.

08:55Camacho,

08:56ever the showman,

08:57immediately declared Joe a hero

08:59and promoted him to president

09:01of the United States.

09:03With no way back to his own time,

09:05Joe accepted his fate.

09:08He married Rita,

09:09and together they had the smartest children

09:11the world had seen in centuries.

09:14Frito became vice president,

09:16and though the world

09:17was still overwhelmingly stupid,

09:19Joe's leadership slowly nudged civilization

09:22in a better direction.

09:24But just when it seemed like things were looking up,

09:26back in 2005,

09:28a second cryogenic pod

09:30suddenly flickered to life.

09:32The door hissed open,

09:34an out-stepped upgrade,

09:35Rita's long-forgotten pimp,

09:37blinking in confusion

09:38at his new surroundings.

09:40The cycle of stupidity,

09:42it seemed,

09:43wasn't over just yet.

09:44And so,

09:46Joe Bowers,

09:47an utterly average man from 2005,

09:50became the smartest person in the world

09:52simply by waking up in a future

09:53where intelligence had collapsed.

09:56Though he had started out

09:57desperately trying to escape,

09:59he ultimately chose to stay

10:01and help rebuild a society

10:03that had lost its way.

10:05Under his leadership,

10:06things began to improve,

10:08however slowly,

10:09proving that even in the dumbest of times,

10:11a little common sense could go a long way.

10:14But as the cryogenic pod of Upgrade hissed open,

10:18there was one undeniable truth.

10:20Stupidity had a way of surviving.

10:23And as long as it did,

10:24the future of idiocracy was never truly safe.

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