10 Best Sci-Fi Comedy Movies You Need To Watch

Mike Judge’s 2006 satire is sadly looking more prescient with every passing year. Set in the year 2505, it’s either a sharply observed spoof or a portent of things to come, a film about a future in which anti-intellectualism has led to the death of reasonable discourse, rampant, unchecked commercialisation, and a brash celebrity elected into the White House.

Luke Wilson plays a painfully average guy who is put into suspended animation, and wakes up in a world where his unremarkable intellect makes him the smartest man in the world. The 26th century is a place where experts are dismissed and distrusted, corporations have the last say in just about anything that happens, and culture has been reduced to tiny clips of folk getting hit in the groin.

Maya Rudolph, Dax Shephard, and Terry Crews (as the demented president) are all superb, and the movie only becomes better as the world becomes more strange. Its lack of a decent release meant that Idiocracy bombed theatrically, but its cult status is undeniable.