Corporal Joe Bauers, a decidedly average American, is selected for a top-secret hibernation program but is forgotten and left to awaken to a future so incredibly moronic that he's easily the... Read allCorporal Joe Bauers, a decidedly average American, is selected for a top-secret hibernation program but is forgotten and left to awaken to a future so incredibly moronic that he's easily the most intelligent person alive.Corporal Joe Bauers, a decidedly average American, is selected for a top-secret hibernation program but is forgotten and left to awaken to a future so incredibly moronic that he's easily the most intelligent person alive.
- Awards
- 1 nomination
- President Camacho
- (as Terry Alan Crews)
- Bailiff
- (as Kevin S. McAfee)
- Officer Collins
- (as Mike McCafferty)
- Hospital Technician
- (as Ryan Melton)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaIn addition to concerns about how to market the film, Twentieth Century Fox also grew weary of the film's frequent, harsh critiques of recognizable corporations. Studio executives wished to shuffle the movie to DVD shelves as quickly and quietly as possible. The film's contract stipulated that it had to receive a theatrical release. The studio met the terms of the contract, but provided no marketing for the film, released it in an unusually small number of cinemas in select cities, and pulled the film in all markets after only one week. So little effort was put into showing the film in theaters, that some of the few cinemas that screened the film were forced to promote it as "Untitled Mike Judge Project" in their lists of coming attractions.
- GoofsIn the montage following his initiative to irrigate the crops with water rather than Gatorade, the crowd chant "Joe, Joe". But they all know him by the name "Not Sure".
- Quotes
[first lines]
Narrator: As the 21st century began, human evolution was at a turning point. Natural selection, the process by which the strongest, the smartest, the fastest, reproduced in greater numbers than the rest, a process which had once favored the noblest traits of man, now began to favor different traits. Most science fiction of the day predicted a future that was more civilized and more intelligent. But as time went on, things seemed to be heading in the opposite direction. A dumbing down. How did this happen? Evolution does not necessarily reward intelligence. With no natural predators to thin the herd, it began to simply reward those who reproduced the most, and left the intelligent to become an endangered species.
- Crazy creditsAfter the credits there is a scene in which Upgrayedd arrives into the future to look for Rita.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Chibi Project: Sailor Soldiers vs Fresnel Lens (2007)
- SoundtracksTrio Sonata No. 1 in G
Written by Domenico Gallo
Performed by The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Courtesy of Extreme Production Music
Mike Judge placed the action some 500 years in the future. Looks like his clock ran free for a while -for it's been only 12 years, and we're almost there... Suffice to say, if a real life Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho ever runs for President, I'll have to give him a minimally serious consideration.
But no electrolytes for me, thanks.
- egasulla
- Jan 24, 2019
Details
- Release date
- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- 3001
- Filming locations
- Austin Convention Center - 500 E. Cesar Chavez Street, Austin, Texas, USA(Escalator/Tattoo/IQ Test)
- Production companies
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Budget
- $2,400,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $444,093
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $124,367
- Sep 3, 2006
- Gross worldwide
- $495,652