Stupidity
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 1 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: July 25, 2006
- Originally Released: 2006
- Label: Disinformation
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Featured: | Salma Hayek, John Cleese, Noam Chomsky, Bill Maher & Steve-O | |
| Directed by | Albert Nerenberg |
Entertainment Reviews:
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Rating: C+ --
This documentary examines the "dumbing-down" of American culture, but it rarely reaches below the surface to explore why this is happening or what can be done to reverse the trend.
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Oregonian
Rating: 3.5/5 --
breezy and fun
Filmcritic.com
Rating: 3/5 --
Amusing and horrifying.
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Austin Chronicle
A more deadpan, mock-solemn approach might have lent this concept a veneer of genuine wit. But Neremberg's jokey pastiche plays out in exactly the short-attention-span mode he decries in modern media.
Variety
Rating: 4/5 --
The idea that our culture is dumbing down is nothing new, but fortunately Stupidity skips the predictable finger-wagging at our collective idiocy in favour of a more interesting, academic study of stupidity.
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eye WEEKLY
Rating: 3/4 --
A movie that's clever, hilarious and -- in its own stylish way -- ironic.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Description by Ryko Distribution:
STUPIDITY sets out to determine whether our culture is hooked on deliberate ignorance as a strategy for success. From Adam Sandler to George W. Bush, from the IQ test to TV programming, to the origins of the word moron, STUPIDITY examines the "dumbing down" of contemporary culture.
STUPIDITY embarks on an exhaustive search into its meaning, and the implications of a cultures that is obsessed and saturated with stupefying culture. STUPIDITY careens at warp speed through sound bites on topics from television news and reality shows, to internet sites and popular films.
Featuring opinions and comments from some of today's most recognizable figures, cultural critics, authors and academics, including John Cleese, Noam Chomsky, Salma Hayak, and Bill Maher, STUPIDITY reveals that, despite our culture's extensive access to knowledge and information, humans continue to choose stupidity.
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Product Info
- UPC: 826262002596
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