This movie was on TV today, and I watched it. I’m not sure whether it is more slapstick or more satire. A good combo in my book, at least. The plot goes: an ordinary man and woman are frozen in a secret military cryogenic experiment, and then the project is forgotten and abandoned. They are accidentally woken up 500 years in the future, to find that the world’s collective IQ has declined massively, no one knows how to read, and the top movie in the theaters is called “Ass” and simply features 90 minutes of an anonymous naked butt.
The man spends the whole movie trying to find out how to go back in time and stop this horrible mess from happening, and being called upon to fix things for the future’s idiotic denizens. It’s a perfectly delicious (if very vulgar- definitely not kid-appropriate) satire, with plenty of nods to Planet of the Apes and other classic sci-fi.
Now, the plausibility of this is quite low… Since IQ scores have actually gone UP every year since they started testing people with the Stanford Binet (the most common type of IQ test) and they have to adjust the scoring to make sure that the average score is still “100”. (Evidence to me that IQ is NOT genetic) But perhaps IQ scores are going to be like longevity, now that the “experts” think that my generation is going to be the first one in modern history that might live shorter lives than their parents…
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