The movie they don't want you to watch.

I've been waiting for the new Mike Judge film for years now. He's the guy who invented "Beavis and Butt-head" and "Office Space." "Idiocracy" finally opened, just not here. Its studio decided to dump it in a handful of theaters around the country. No ads. No press screenings. And apparently, it's not because it's a bad movie. (One reviewer called it "an overlooked gem.")

The theories:

It is a movie that might be too mean-spirited to sell. It's about a regular guy who goes into the future and ends up being the smartest man around because Americans have become idiots from our love of fast food, TV news and Paris Hilton gossip.

The sponsors got mad. Imagine you signed up your product to be placed in movie and then the filmmakers mocked your product? It's not exactly what you paid for, eh? Apparently Starbucks and Costco weren't happy.

Or maybe it is just a bad movie.

It's in my DVD queue. If you like satire, you should give it a shot, too.

Sounds like a goog one. This premise was used to great effect by C.M. Kornbluth in "The Marching Morons." That story doesn't really have a happy ending.

When I heard about this movie, I immediately thought of the Kornbluth story, too. (and maybe a touch of The Space Merchants, which he co wrote, too, which skewers corporatism)