The purpose of the program set up by the Pentagon, called the "Human Hibernation Project," is designed so that the military can save their best men for when they're needed most. According to the officers heading the project, too many times the talents and expensive training of the best pilots and soldiers go to waste during times of peace. So they enlist Joe Bauers (Luke Wilson), the most under-achieving average guy they've got, to be the test subject for the initial hibernation experiment. Also participating in the top-secret program is Rita (Maya Rudolph), a prostitute who agreed to take part in exchange for dropping some criminal charges against her, among other things. Of course, hilarity ensues when the experiment, which was to last only a year, goes under due to the arrest of Officer Collins, who is busted for heading a prostitution ring. Collins was in charge of the experiment, one of the only ones who knew of its existence, and due to a lot of top-secret red tape... and the massive scandals and base closure that followed, Joe and Rita, scheduled to wake up after one year, wake up instead in 2505. By this time, stupid people have outbred intelligent people (smart people plan births and have few children, not so smart people have lots and lots of kids, who have lots and lots of kids...); the world is (barely) run by morons--and Joe and Rita are the smartest people in America.
Trivia: The script title was originally "The United States of Uhh-merica", and the working title was "3001".
Okay, so this is not an intellectual comedy, you don't have to be a poet laureate to understand the sutle comedy of a future tv show from the Violence Channel called "Ow, My Balls!" It was just mindless fun. But a lot of times that is just the sort of movie you want to watch. It is escapism at it's finest.
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14 years ago
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We watched this a few weeks ago. Stupid at it's best is what I think. The concept of the movie was a pretty good one, but was low budget movie all the way through.
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