Idiocracy, another instant cult classic?

Alerted to this dvd by a fellow colleague last Saturday.
Must make a point to get my hands on it, and view it.
Plot Outline:
Private Joe Bauers, the definition of "average American", is selected by the Pentagon to be the guinea pig for a top-secret hibernation program. Forgotten, he awakes 500 years in the future. He discovers a society so incredibly dumbed-down that he's easily the most intelligent person alive.
Plot Synopsis:
The purpose of the program set up by the Pentagon, called the "Human Hibernation Project," is designed so that the military can save their best men for when they're needed most. According to the officers heading the project, too many times the talents and expensive training of the best pilots and soldiers go to waste during times of peace. So they enlist Bauers (Wilson), the most under-achieving average guy they've got, to be the test subject for the initial hibernation experiment. Also participating in the top-secret program is Rita (Rudolph), a prostitute who agreed to take part in exchange for dropping some criminal charges against her, among other things. Of course, the experiment, which was to last only a year, goes under due to the arrest of Officer Collins, who is busted for heading a prostitution ring. Seeing as though he was in charge of the experiment, one of the only ones who knew of its existence, and "due to a lot of top-secret red tape... and the massive scandals and base closure that followed, Joe and Rita were forgotten about.
www.amazon.com/Idiocracy-Luke-Wilson/dp/B000K7VHOG
In the present time, a J6P becomes the victim of a hibernation experiment and wakes up 500 years in the future. Instead of a utopian paradise, he finds a future that has been shaped by the lowest-common denominators of society, a dumbed-down distopia in which the most popular show on TV is "OW! My BALLS!" and the court system works like the Jerry Springer Show.
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Cut in to the present day and time to the idiot box at home ... and MHI TV3 showcasing a three year old talent singing a love song. Poor lil kid, coaxed into singing a ballad before he could even learn his nursery rhymes. A sign of times to come?
And just last week, when a guest speaker asked the Year Two, Semester Three broadcasting students the profession of their choice, the answer was overwhelmingly 'entertainment'!