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.
Absolutely it’s as subtle as a safe dropped onto your head. The point made isn’t made any less valid by being exaggerated - satire does that sometimes.
And Idiocracy being deep is not something I hear a lot, where in the world has that been a common take?