It’s basically a comedy with the subtlety of a guy repeatedly screaming “I am beating you with a sledgehammer” as he hits you with a sledgehammer.
The joke is that everyone is dumb and the future and its painfully spoon-fed to the audience ad nusuesm. And now 15 years later everyone constantly brings up that movie when ever something happens and its the most over commented thing I’ve ever seen. It makes me hate the movie more. Its the peak movie for pseudo intellectuals.
It’s on the same level as Office Space (another Mike Judge movie), it just has a lot of moments in it that people see in their own lives and can point to the movie as art imitating life imitating art. No one has really ever called either movie cerebral or claimed they were deep, they’re just really relatable to alot of people. Given that he also worked on King of the Hill as well, that’s been kind of common thread through alot of his work, comedy for the “everyman”.
Except in this case, instead of art imitating life imitating art, it might be life imitating art imitating life? :-P
Ii definetely disagree on that point, there were plenty of folks on reddit who treated this movie like it was a documentary and that it was required watching for understanding the faults in our actual society
That being said, I agree with everything else you said, some people just aren’t good at separating “I like this” from “this is important”