Documentary on the surprisingly understudied subject of ‘stupidity’. Topics include: what is stupidity?, the increasing prevalence and glorification of stupidity in modern culture, stupidity on television, in film, the internet, religion and politics. It’s a wide ranging primer that is really a creative topic for a documentary. George W. Bush is of course discussed, and even if you don’t think him stupid (myself and many of the commentators in the film don’t) you’ve got to admit that’s he’s not known as the greatest advocate of critical thinking. Noam Chomsky, Joel Schumacher, and Bill Maher are among those interviewed on the subject (Maher’s 2000 comedy special ‘Be More Cynical’ (which I watched last night) is mostly about stupidity). The documentary that introduced me to the admittedly stupid one time internet phenom ‘Evil Bert’. 3 out of 5.
Ironically Beavis and Butthead creator Mike Judd made the same point about the ill effects of our increasingly imbecilic culture in his 'stupid' comedy Ideocracy (2006), which again ironicly was never abel to get a theatrical distributer.
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