Interesting premise. Idiocracy is already coming. I don't think we will make it off the earth in time.
Idiocracy is based upon having and supporting the welfare state to the extreme that the dumbest people have the most children, and the smart folks have few... Which is actually happening. Then they play out how that would effect society over the course of several hundred years. With our protagonist coming in at the cusp to save humanity.
Wall-E was just consumerist assholes who didn't want to clean shit up, but still had some level of intelligence... Then the space yacht... You can see it in the pictures as they scroll the yacht Captain's pictures. Then the evil AI programmed not to ever stop the consumerism, by its original corporate overlord was used to add spice and drama. Otherwise it would have been space yacht, blasts off, robot cleans planet, yacht scout finds plant, yacht lands... The end.
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