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…

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…

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…