Mike Judge’s satire ‘Idiocracy’ gets a timely 10th-anniversary rerelease

The Mike Judge film “Idiocracy� was a box-office disappointment when it came out in 2006.

Maybe the film was just ahead of its time.

At an election moment when “Idiocracy� might, ahem, resonate with ‎a larger audience, the Alamo Drafthouse theater chain is bringing back the film for a 10th-anniversary screening.

On Oct. 4, ‎the Aero Theater in Santa Monica will ‎screen the film and hold a Q&A with Judge and star Maya Rudolph. The event will be live-streamed on various platforms, including Facebook, with members of the live audience able to ask questions.‎ Other Alamo theaters around the country will also sell tickets and broadcast the event as well.. A voter registration drive will also be held.

“Whether you are voting for Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Jill Stein, Gary Johnson, or whether you just want to cast a write-in vote for Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho,� Alamo said in a statement, “these options are all your right — but first you must register to vote.�

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“Idiocracy� centers on a slacker Army librarian (Luke Wilson) who wakes up from a centuries-long cryogenic sleep to find that America has gone to seed, with all intelligence bred out of society and the most loudmouth and insipid elements ‎now dominating. A former pro wrestler with rage issues and particularly inane tendencies (President Camacho, played by Terry Crews) now runs the country. That lends the film a political — and timely — dimension.

In interview, Judge and co-writer Etan Cohen have drawn parallels between the film and the current electoral climate. ‎Crews told Time he sees the same comparison. “It’s not politics,� he said during primary season. “It’s...’Yo Mama.’�

Political entertainment that was originally designed as satire has taken on‎ a more real-life dimension in this season of high rhetoric and higher dislikability among candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. At the Emmys on Sunday, “Veep� star Julia Louis-Dreyfus crystallized the sentiment with regard to her own show.

“I’d also like to take this opportunity to personally apologize for the current political climate,� she said in accepting the award for lead actress in a comedy. “Our show started out as a political satire, but it now feels more like a sobering documentary.�

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