Private Joe Bauers (Luke Wilson) is frozen along with a prostitute named Rita (Maya Rudolph) for a test program being run by the Pentagon. The experiment was only supposed to last one year, but after the base shuts down Joe and Rita are forgotten, only to wake up 500 years in the future. Over the years, the world has become incredibly dumb, as stupid people reproduced at an alarming rate. All of a sudden, this average Joe is now the smartest man alive! Now Joe must navigate a frightening world where he is outcasted and misunderstood because of how intelligent he is. Can he manage to survive long enough to find a way back to his present day?