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Summary: One of my favorites!
Review: If you've ever worked in an office setting, you've gotta see this movie. It follows Peter, a bored software engineer, as he deals with corporate downsizing, self-important management and bonehead corporate consultants. Although this movie is set at a software company in Texas, it could have easily been set in any state in most any office.I actually saw this movie in the theater when I was still in college. I thought it was funny, but I couldn't fully appreciate the office humor. That's what makes this movie so funny. It's not the great American movie, it's not deep and it's not trying to be anything it's not. It's just a very funny and smart look at common situations and charactatures of people we all seem to have in our workplaces. I think everyone's gotten to the point where we just don't want to go back to work the next day, and we just don't care enough to tell the boss that we're not showing up anymore. You definitely won't catch everything the first time you see this movie. You won't catch all of Milton's (played by the same guy who was the station owner on NBC's News Radio) mumblings about his Swingline stapler and about the squirrels he used to watch outside his window. One of the corporate consultants is played by the same guy who plays Dr. Cox on NBC's Scrubs, and he has some of my favorite lines as he interviews Peter's friend, Michael Bolton (no need to say more!). Jennifer Aniston has a minor role, and she simply comes across as a ditzy waitress. The downside to the DVD is it is simpler than the movie. There's really no extras other than a trailer. It would have been great to have had some outtakes, because you can really tell that these actors had fun making this movie.
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Summary: Hilarious
Review: Very funny movie and your office life will never be the same after you watch this.
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Summary: A Keeper
Review: This movie ranks right up there with some of my most favorite comedies. Definitely one that I'll watch over and over again.
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Summary: Work sucks, and so does the soundtrack!
Review: I actually thought this was a pretty clever movie, I found myself busting a gut laughing at many points. However, the horrible, drag-me-down soundtrack made me want to kick a hole through my speakers! If anyone can re-cut a version of this movie with real music, it would be one of my favorites. As it stands, I will probably never watch it again.
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Summary: Awesome movie, but very flawed DVD format
Review: As many reviewers have previously stated, this is THE movie that defines corporate angst and fuels the inner desire of all office-workers (including myself) to harbor dreams of trashing the printer, playing tetris all day, sleeping in late on weekdays, and stealing my boss's parking space. Think Dilbert on DVD using real characters. I absolutely love this film, but the DVD itself is pretty bland. There are hardly any extras (trailers don't count), and the DVD edition sorely needs some outtakes. No cast interviews, no director's commentary, nothing.... To make matters worse, I believe the DVD encoding is flawed. I've played it numerous times on my brand new Toshiba DVD player, and sometimes the screen will distort or colors will wash at certain spots in the movie, particularly in the beginning. But considering this is the only edition available on DVD, it's a marginal flaw and one that shouldn't prevent anyone from enjoying it.
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Summary: good humor, and i'm not talking about an ice cream cone here
Review: Great movie, very funny, jokes were in very good taste for today's comedy (I tend to like the dirty comedy). Anyway, as far as the review from anonymous, Bend OR, maybe if you stopped bending over and taking it in the A## then you would find the humor in this movie.
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Summary: This movie will change your life
Review: "Office Space" isn't the funniest movie ever made, but it's certainly one of my favorites. For any fault you can find with the movie, I can quote three memorable lines (or scenes) that would make the reasonable viewer forget that fault. I watch this movie every few months -- usually on Sunday night, while curled up on the couch in the fetal position, dreading the inevitable Monday morning -- and it always takes me away to that better place. In your darkest moments, "Office Space" is that shining jewel that makes life bearable again. It is indeed chicken soup for the cubicled soul. It's all about the workplace in America in the 1990s. It's the cubicle, middle-management culture, that's so brilliantly dissected here. From the traffic jam in the opening scene to the soulless birthday party held for the "division VP" towards the end, every scene in "Office Space"'s extremely manageable 90-minute length is true-to-life hilarity. The cast is outstanding, made up entirely of comedians and sit-com regulars. Aniston was the "name" on the movie when it came out, but she fits brilliantly into the ensemble. Ron Livingston (Peter, the Everyman lead) and Orlando Jones (here sans the 7-UP) have both since springboarded to their deserved niches in TV-land. Everyone has their personal favorites among the supporting players (Ajay Naidu, Gary Cole, John C. McGinley, and Paul Willson -- late of "Cheers" -- rob blind every scene they're in) but David Herman, playing the inaptly-named "Michael Bolton", is the breakout star. Maybe it's the short-sleeve-shirt with tie ensemble, or the gangsta speech he affects, or, at long last, "Call me Mike", but there are times when I've watched "Office Space" just for his performance alone. The plot is stretched thin, and the jokes wear off in the final half-hour. Unlike other dark-side-of-the-'90s pictures such as "Falling Down" or "American Beauty", this movie doesn't treat its revenge as a moment of spiritual clarity or insanity -- it's all about hypnotherapy, y'see. Still, that doesn't matter. For me, it's all about Peter's "dreams of doing nothing". That's it! That's the moment! That's what we all really want, deep down, after years of crushing middle-management rules, memos, and coffee cups held chest-high. Yeah. Great. Why don't you just go ahead and do that? Even the minor details are so right -- I love the fact that "Office Space" has a gangsta-rap soundtrack, or that Jennifer Aniston's waitress has no idea what her uniform's buttons say. This is a movie specifically designed to be just as funny the 30th time as the first. So go. Buy it (although there are literally no reasons to get the feature-free, widescreen DVD, except for moral support for Mike Judge). Watch it repeatedly, and go to bed dreaming of your own quit-your-job-to-watch-"Kung Fu" fantasy.
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Summary: Complexity Shomplexity
Review: Bah! 2 scenes do not a movie make. Mike Judge can't decide whether he wants to be Franz Kafka or in the Hallmark Hall of Fame, so he settles for something that would make Joan Lunden titter with suppressed amusement. Bravely lambasting office politics in a manner that only someone who has never worked in an office could enjoy, Judge then moves on to tougher fare. Waitressing in a restaraunt not the most pleasant experience? I mean, Oh my gosh, I was stunned by his searing portrayal of the disenfranchisment of Coporate America and it's inevitable Ennui-inducing Weltanschauung. Verfremdungseffekte like White men rapping and Jennifer Anniston being "Homey and down to earth" only further emphasized the moral of this story (In true Brecht fashion) - when the Proletariat fulfilled its Hegelian destiny and been run beneath the wheels of enterprise, only the Uebermensch-next-door will be able to "Take up arms" and stem the tide. If you thought what I just said was right on, go finish that poem you've been working on. A cinematic masterpiece for anyone who likes to snicker at the misfortunes of others and fancies themselves luckily outside the world of grunts and laborers. Buy it for your Philosophy Grad-Student get togethers. Goes well with Rolling Rock.
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Summary: Interesting film... Worth watching...
Review: This is a pretty funny film. There are some really good scenes. The story is about a high tech company that has become top heavy with employees over the years. The head of the company hires a consulting firm to come in and review/fire the dead wood. Our hero become accidentally hypnotized into thinking that he needs to start doing things that are important to him, not the company. Anyway, he starts going (or not going) to work when ever he feels like it. He dresses anyway he likes. He does whatever he wants. The rest of the employees think he is crazy. The consultants think he is under motivated. They reccommend that he be promated. The things he and his friends get into are hilarious. The office is non stop cubicles.... Jennifer is an added bonus to this film. Not a big part, but she in it often enough to be considered on of the four main characters. Good flick.
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Summary: For anyone who has ever hated their job...
Review: After a breif run at the theaters, Office Space has found a renewed and vibrant life on video tape. It seems that everyone I talk to -- no matter what their age, background, or current job -- considers this film to be a personal favorite, a film that they can especially relate to. The reasons are pretty obvious. Everyone hates their job. Everyone feels that they're working for idiots who fail to understand just how special and unique their neglected employees truly are. This is something that we all have in common, whether we work for a retail chain or a fortune 500 company. This is also a feeling that Office Space manages to perfectly capture. Taking place in Houston in waning days of the 20th Century, Office Space stars Ron Livingston as an affable computer programmer who has found himself stuck in a dead end job that requires him to spend countless hours looking over a code to make sure that various computers are Y2K compliant. Its a job that makes little sense to him but one that he's expected to devote his life to. His coworkers are all incredibly (and realistically) annoying. Who hasn't had to deal with someone like the "Look's Like Somebody's Got a Case of the Mondays!" woman? His boss's (a hilarious Gary Cole) blandly friendly manner brings new meaning to the term "corporate evil," while over in the next cubicle, pasty-faced Milton (Stephen Root, also hilarious) mutters about burning down the building. Finally fed up, Livington first seeks help from a hypnotherapist, pursues a relationship with a waitress (Jennifer Anniston who is sweetly likeable here but doesn't have much to do) at a generic Chili's-like establishment, and finally engages in a plan to embezzle money from the company. Obviously, the plot is a little bit ragged and at times, it seems as if director Mike Judge and his actors made up the plot as they went along. But no matter, the film's quality is not to be found in the plot as much as in how it captures the small, realistic details that makes everyone hate their job. From the pointless memos to the corporate stooges, Office Space captures them all and sends them up in such a savagely hilarious way that the film serves as a wonderful catharsis for anyone whose just finished a hard day at work. Office workers will especially appreciate the scene in which Livingston and two recently laid off co-workers take revenge on an irksome xerox machine. (If not for the fact that children might be reading this review, I'd quote the rap song that plays over this scene but let's just say that its impossible not to cheer as our workers get their revenge.) Judge, best known as the creator of Beavis and Butthead, directs in an offhand, almost casual manner. There's a relaxed air about the whole affair and you get the feeling that everyone involved in the film was having a good time. Luckily, the feeling is infectous. The film is also well-acted by everyone involved. Along with Cole, Aniston, and Root, good supporting work is given by Deidrich Bader who plays Livingston's redneck neighbor. Ron Livingston is the perfect everyman lead for this film and gives a totally winning and likeable performance. With its portrait of mindless office jobs, Ikea-furnished apartments, and overly intelligent people struggling to find some way to establish some sort of individual identity in a corporate culture, Office Space at times plays like the gentler, slightly more juvenile cousin of Fight Club. Whereas Fight Club battled modern culture through violence, Office Space battles modern culture through practical jokes and whoppee cushions. Both films are must sees for anyone who has ever hated having to make a living.
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