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Mike JudgeKamera:
Tim SuhrstedtMusik:
Theodore ShapiroBesetzung:
Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph, Dax Shepard, Terry Crews, Anthony 'Citric' Campos, David Herman, Michael McCafferty, Justin Long, Patrick Fischler (mehr)Streaming (5)
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Joe Bauers, der Durchschnittsmensch schlechthin, wird für ein streng geheimes Experiment der US-Army auserkoren. Gemeinsam mit der Prostituierten Rita soll er für ein Jahr in einen Kälteschlaf versetzt werden. Doch die beiden werden in ihren Kammern vergessen und erwachen durch einen Zufall 500 Jahre später. Erstaunt stellen sie fest, dass sie plötzlich die intelligentesten Menschen der Welt sind! (arte)
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A great comedy that warns smart people what will happen if they don't have enough children or postpone them indefinitely, and shows stupid people the future of cinema - asses and farts. A US Army librarian becomes the smartest man on the planet in the year 2505 after a failed experiment. Stylistically, it's a mix of Planet of the Apes and The Running Man with ridiculous effects and occasionally really stupid humor, but quite deliberately stupid. Luke Wilson fits the average guy perfectly and President Terry Crews is a delight as well. I'd say a lot of the ideas sketched here inspired Rick & Morty or other similarly wacky shows.
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The film benefits a lot from the premise, which is really great: our mediocre main character is frozen in 2005, then wakes up 500 years later to a world so stupid that he’s suddenly the smartest man under the sun. We should be in for at least above average entertainment, but the creators only managed it half way. There are no memorable lines to quote on cue, and the portrayal of a backward society is more or less limited to a lot of sexual innuendo, kicks to the crotch and "fuck" in every sentence. But on the other hand, there's plenty to laugh at, and the reasonable runtime gives the film not only the right pace, but more importantly the courage to simplify everything as much as possible and add just enough absurdity to most scenes to make one turn a blind eye to the fact that a lot more could have been made of it. It's not even close to four stars, but it doesn't deserve to be dismissed. After all, that's what other, indescribably more stupid comedies are for... 60%
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No, I admit that I didn't enjoy this comedy at all and I think that the characters here are not great at all. But the second thing is the fact about what this movie is actually about. "Absurdistán" is a great social criticism. It is not necessarily the society of the future that will look so terrifying. It can also be a metaphor for the current society. And I think it's a quite accurate metaphor. Just the introduction alone makes you think a little. This is exactly what I would give this comedy an above-average rating for, it has something to say. It doesn't deserve much else.
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