It’s basically a comedy with the subtlety of a guy repeatedly screaming “I am beating you with a sledgehammer” as he hits you with a sledgehammer.
The joke is that everyone is dumb and the future and its painfully spoon-fed to the audience ad nusuesm. And now 15 years later everyone constantly brings up that movie when ever something happens and its the most over commented thing I’ve ever seen. It makes me hate the movie more. Its the peak movie for pseudo intellectuals.
You’re not wrong. I don’t think anything Mike Judge has ever done should be necessarily labeled as deep. I think there is still some funny commentary in it.
Mike Judge is legendary at character development. I’d have him as my first choice in designing a town of misfits or a group of people for a sitcom or a film.
For the plot and overall structure, I’d look elsewhere.