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Summary: One of the funniest moviues even made
Review: Gross! Disgusting! WONDERFUL! I was dancing to "Funky Towel" and nearly busted a gut laughng at the rest of the movie.A Must-Have for your video collection!
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Summary: Brilliant yet subtle!!!
Review: I am SO happy that I was introduced to this most impressive movie by friends who know me well enough to know that I would appreciate this film. What this film accomplishes is total escape into a world of evil humans and kind cockroaches with impressive musical proclivities. The choreography was well planned and brilliantly executed (like the aquatic ballet in the toilet)...even though most of the stars were computer generated. I look forward to the sequels. May they proliferate like the cockroaches of this fine film. Hats off and Thumbs Up to Geffen Pictures and MTV Productions. Can't wait for the DVD so I can see the production notes and other side-bars.
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Summary: Totally Funny Songs
Review: I can't get the song "Funky Towel" out of my head. This movie cracks me up. Although no one has seen it.
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Summary: A Cult Classic that never gets old
Review: I first saw this movie about 5 years ago. It was the funniest movie that I had ever seen. This movie has over time grown to be a cult classic with my friends and I. I saw it at my first sleepover I ever had, and I've seen it at nearly all of my sleepovers since then. Because of that, the movie has a special significance to me. If friends from each school that I've ever been to counts as a generation, then I've seen and laughed as hard as humanly possible with about 4 generations of kids.
If you are considering buying this movie, then don't hesitate any longer. IT'S FUNNY, I TELL YOU!!! I highly reccomend that you join Ralph, Rodney, and Joe's family just like I did many years ago. Trust me, You won't regret it.
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Summary: HIDE THE RAID!
Review: I haven't laughed so hard in a long time until viewing this wickedly original movie. Although based on a fifteen minute "short," writer/director John Payson stretches it to 80 minutes and although at times it seems forced, I still enjoyed it immensely.
Just the idea of singing, talking and humanoid cockroaches is hilarious, and Payson gives us plenty of them with excellent special effects. Their song and dance numbers are riproaringly funny. I'm certainly not a proponent of having cockroaches around, but in this movie, they serve as a Greek chorus for the trials and tribulations of Joe. At times, overly crude, the humor is still omnipresent and when one is done watching JOE'S APARTMENT, one should feel lighthearted.
Jerry O'Connell does well as the backward Joe; Megan Ward is a delightfully silly Lily; and we even have Don Ho as a gangster and Robert Vaughn as Lily's crossdressing Senator father. When he asks Lily where she got her earrings, I about lost it!!!
This is a funny movie and is made purely to make you laugh!!!
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Summary: A sequel, please!!!
Review: I will never look at a roach the same way. This movie is FUNNY!!
If you just wat to "VEG" out , watch this movie.
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Summary: A Very funny movie
Review: I will never look at a roach the same way. This movie is FUNNY!!
If you just wat to "VEG" out , watch this movie.
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Summary: THIS IS WHY
Review: I'M OVERSTATING THIS MOVIE BY GIVING IT A FOUR. AND THAT'S BECAUSE THERE'S NO THREE AND A HALF. FIVE STARS ARE THROWN OUT HERE ON GOOD OR FAIR MOVIES, EVEN POOR ONES. TO ME A FIVE STAR MOVIE IS INDEPENDENCE DAY, THE MATRIX, BROKEN ARROW, OR CADDIE SHACK. THIS IS ENTERTAINING AND HAS LOTS OF LAUGHS. BUT THE REASON WE RATE THE MOVIES IS SO SOMEONE LIKE ME WHO NEVER SAW OR HEARD OF THE MOVIE CAN GET A IDEA ON HOW GOOD IT IS . AND ON THIS, THIS SITE FAILS BADLY BECAUSE FOUR AND FIVE STAR MOVIES ARE USED TOO MUCH AND "THE PRODUCERS WHO LIKE TO FIND ANY FLAW THEY CAN BRING DOWN SOME VERY GOOD MOVIES". BACK TO HERE. A 80 MINUTE CRAZY MOVIE THAT IN THE SIXTIES WHOULD HAVE BEEN A HIT, GET IT HIT, OH WELL, IF IT WORKS FOR YOU GIVE IT A GOOD RATING BUT KEEP THE FIVE STARS TO THE REAL FIVE STAR MOVIES!!!!!!
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Summary: Have you kissed your roach today?
Review: Is it possible that people exist who are so myopic, so unable to think outside their own sanitized box, that they fail to see and feel the charm of this movie? Of course, I agree that roaches are most appreciated by humans when seen on the bottom side of a shoe, schmooshed. The movie isn't trying to make you boycott Raid. [But, as the film points out, these hardy little creatures will probably be around a lot longer than our own immune 'defested' species.] A plot in this film would have just been distracting. There is no philosophy being preached here, no deep meaning, no overt or covert agendas. Just fun! The movie is great on many counts. Hear are just a few examples:
-Computer graphics that are nothing short of brilliant.
-A church organ made of lipstick.
-Songs about the healer holding your feeler (while Joe makes love to Lilly!).
-A roach version of Ester William swimming and singing in Joe's toilet.
-A roach sitting on a tube of Prep-H and saying, "What's up his butt?"
-Expert harmonies throughout the film sung with clever (but not overly clever) words, a la The Chipmunks.
-A phrase like, "That tickles!" having, well, a new slant.
-Cute, if predictable, comments made by the roaches. The film turns traditional values upside-down in a hilarious way, without being pedantic. The film isn't as serious as a Sondheim lyric, as popular as a Lloyd-Weber musical, as beautiful as a Les Miserable melody. But it doesn't try to be. And it doesn't need to be. It allows the viewer to, for perhaps a too brief period, forget about his or her confining values and exhausting proprieties, and just be entertained. After an escape like this film, we may indeed return to our severe or drab realities refreshed, much like a good night's sleep can make one more alert the next morning. ... I believe that entertainment like this, in appropriate doses, could be just what the world does need....
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Summary: The Ultimate Guilty Pleasure...
Review: Maybe I'm pushing it a bit here giving the film five stars... However, Joe's Apartment is one of the few low-key camp-films that came out in the mid-nineties (Mortal Kombat being another example) before Hollywood went overboard with the CGI and it definitely should only be viewed alone or with a younger sibling due to the overall tackiness. What I really find great about this flick is that instead of fully focusing on "MTV-esque" anarchy more attention was devoted towards hyperactive pacing. Such as the way that the film took the horrors of living in low-rent apartments and twisted it to be conveyed with a cartoon like lunacy. As far as the toilet humor goes, it's hardly as extreme as it is in teen films as cockroaches mainly provide the main gross out moments.
My only complaint was the minor use of the sacred f word which is probably the contributing factor why this film was given a higher censor rating and wasn't as big as totally pathetic blockbuster hits such as Kangaroo Jack *shudder*... However, I'm glad it isn't very well known, as I feel it's like a secret guilty pleasure where you can just sit there and let yourself go and laugh insanely at juvenile slapstick for a while.
Some people felt that the musical numbers from the cockroaches were carried on too many times. Personally, I feel they're just great to watch, pleasing to the eye and the ear and twice as wacky.
Who knows? Maybe this film might achieve a high cult status in years to come?
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