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監督: マイク・ジャッジ
音楽: セオドア・シャピロ
制作: Elysa Koplovitz Dutton / Michael Nelson / マイク・ジャッジ
撮影監督: Tim Suhrstedt
制作会社: 20th Century Fox / Ternion Pictures
**A dumb, smart movie or a smart, dumb movie?** This movie has become a cult classic on online forums as reddit users discuss the state of the world. I came into this movie with hopes that it would be a prescient foretelling of the state of the world and the death of intellectual curiosity. While I was hooked by the premise of a society getting dumber over time, I feel they ultimately exhausted much of this hook in the introduction to the movie. As the movie progressed, it revealed its true self - a quotable but ultimately low-brow movie that relies on the same tropes that it critiques. Between giant dildo cars and people getting kicked in the balls, there were some funny moments that I found to draw parallels to the modern days. The poisoning of crops by Brawndo reminds me of multiple corporate scandals where baby formula or water was replaced with some corporate concoction that ultimately made life worse for consumers. I think these moments poke fun at the situation in a digestible way. That said, I think these insights were overshadowed by the stupidity of the humor which seems to be making fun of the stupefaction of society while relying on the same type of humor for cheap laughs. Aside from the introduction and quotable phrases ("It's what the plants crave!"), I ultimately think the sophomoric humor strongly overpowers and sort of intrigue or commentary that the movie tries to offer.
