are humans getting dumber?

just found out about the very small release of mike judge's new film idiocracy and read a nice review at slate. apparently, it's everything you'd expect from the creator of beavis and butthead in the time of george w bush: a humor that laments incompetence and laziness. i'm in no rush to see it, thanks to a few other reviews, one of which sums it up best: the movie is "so puerile and gross that[,] though the movie wants to say something about the dumbing down of America, it winds up not so much commentary as part of the problem." there's also a conspiracy theory saying that the distributor (FOX) intentionally squelched the film...