Stupidity Stupidity

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An exploration into the nature of stupidity in Western society and its history of our perception of it.

George W. Bush Noam Chomsky John Cleese Coolio Drew Curtis David Lawrence Bill Maher Michael Moore Fred Napoli Albert Nerenberg Geoff Pevere Joel Schumacher Paul Spence Steve-O Josey Vogels Rufus Hannah Matthew Pritchard Lee Dainton

Director

Albert Nerenberg

Producers

Albert Nerenberg Shannon Brown

Editors

Albert Nerenberg Adam Nicholls

Visual Effects

Jedrzej Jonasz

Country

Canada

Language

English

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  • shaney

    Review by shaney

    who woulda thought deciding to watch all of adam sandlers credited roles would lead me to watching this dull, school project-esque documentary

  • RigelDC

    Review by RigelDC ★

    Promoted as a documentary on the concept of "stupidity" and featuring John Cleese, this pseudo-doc is nothing of the sort. If Cleese was in it, he went by so fast that I don't remember seeing him. Narrated in droll, bored tones, you hear plenty of filler questions and ruminations, but almost nothing in the way of facts or intellectual content. With the exception of a few repetitive snippets of kids falling off skateboards and some non-sequitur screensaver animations, the majority of the video content is the production crew running around pretending to be stupid. This footage repeats over and over. A few of them are funny the first time, but not the fifth or sixth. Any interviews with talking heads…

  • Jesse_Wroe

    Review by Jesse_Wroe ★★½

    Not everybody interviewed is as smart as they think they are (i.e., Bill Maher), but the main point has some truth to it.

  • Igor Stanojević

    Review by Igor Stanojević

    hey, remember when we thought george w. bush was too stupid to be the president?

  • Damen

    Review by Damen ★★★

    A neat documentary about intelligence or the lack of it.

  • Bob

    Review by Bob ★½

    Stupidity is a documentary that tries to get at exactly what stupidity is.

    The documentary starts off by asking people to define the term, and most interviewees quickly realize that defining stupidity is more difficult than it sounds, and has a broader context than mere IQ.

    But while it does dig into IQ and how it relates to the term, it also addresses: shows like Jackass that focus on intentionally doing "stupid" things, President Bush as a poor speaker ("Fool me — you can't get fooled again."), elected officials as constantly making the wrong decisions (from the POV of irritated voters), "stupid" partners having children, and kids/teenagers who do the accidentally do stupid things.

    The documentary is all over the…

  • Pablo Alonso

    Review by Pablo Alonso ★★

    Not a very good documentary, in fact the only point it manages to convey is that we don't know enough about stupidity. It tries to talk about the perception as stupidity as cool, as opposed to intelligent which is nerdy, and I find that topic interesting, but then it starts focusing on the measurements of intelligence and really ends up saying almost nothing about anything...