3. The Casting Is Spot On
In his films, Mike Judge relies on the 'every man' type of actor; ones that viewers may not strive to be but can personally relate to (so no Denzel Washington or Brad Pitt in a Mike Judge film). While Luke Wilson can barely carry a film, that is the point of this movie: we don't want a Christian Bale or Ryan Gosling in this type of movie representing what present day humanity is. We want an average guy with no ambition other than to just wait out his days in a type of purgatory, which is what Luke Wilson is. He is the Ron Livingston character in Office Space, just wanting to be left alone and not care about anything. There is a fine ensemble cast of B-actors in Idiocracy, which makes it work so well, including Dax Sheppard, Maya Rudolph, Michael Bolton from Office Space. They don't play Stupid for Stupid's sake, which would pander down to the film's ultimate goal of trying to show a world where these type of people very possibly could be leaders of our civilization. The only one (in my opinion) who doesn't quite work in the overall feel of the movie is Justin Long, playing a doctor who informs Luke Wilson that
"Well, don't want to sound like a d*ck or nothin', but, ah... it says on your chart that you're f*cked up. Ah, you talk like a f*g, and your sh*t's all retarded." Such is medical advancement in the 26th century...