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The Office Space Store"You know I never really liked paying bills, I don't think I'm going to do that either."
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Reviews:
“It’s
funny because it’s true.” – Homer
Simpson: Office
Space Super
As the credits rolled on Office
Space, I wondered if I would be able to go back
to work the next day.
I felt as though I had just laughed my way
through every work place truism existing.
I wasn’t sure if I’d just watched a
comedy or listened to writer/director Mike Judge’s
(Beavis and
Butthead, Milton) soapbox speech about the evils
of the workplace.
There’s a line in the classic Tom Hank’s
film, Joe vs.
the Volcano, when he finally snaps and quits his
job, to the effect of
“Everyday I can feel these lights suck,
suck, sucking the life right out of my eyeballs!”
and this is the type of deep-rooted angst Judge
works out of. Ron
Livingston (Swingers)
plays the main character, an everyman who’s taken
all he can of the work-a-day world, taken his last
hit from The Man, and decides that this is no way to
live. He
gives the film’s Tom Hanks speech, preaching like
a divinely touched man of the cloth, deep truths
like “human beings were not meant to be caged up
like animals in cubicles and stare at computer
screens all day.”
If you work, or have ever worked, in a
corporate environment or an office, there is no way
I can imagine that you won’t sit laughing and
nodding your head every minute and a half as you see
your own office— and every single other workplace
that has ever existed and will ever— represented
in glaring satirical light on your screen.
Judge takes dead-on-balls aim at every work
environment from computer companies with nearly
identical names to T.G.I. Friday’s and
Friendly’s-like food chains, hitting the bull’s
eye every time.
You’ve worked in this world, in fact,
you’re probably are working there right now.
The day after I saw this I went into work and
told everyone to rent it, and everyone came back to
me nodding, “Yeah, that’s our office.”
The film is a brilliantly scripted comedy and
is perfectly acted. Gary Cole plays just about every boss you’ve ever had,
right down to trademarked boss terminology, affects,
and personality (or lack thereof).
The performance of the movie, however, has to
go to television’s Talk
Radio star Stephen Root as the corporately
ravished Milton, Judge’s animated character on
which the movie is based. The definition of what the corporate work environment can do
to shatter the human spirit, Root’s Milton quietly
rules the movie.
I can’t recommend this film enough.
It did not do great in theaters, but I blame
that on Judge’s association with animation,
probably making adults think the film was for kids.
Meanwhile, any kids who saw it probably
didn’t get half the humor because they haven’t
lived it and figured it was for adults.
Trust me though, please; this movie is for
anyone who’s ever worked for anyone else and it
will make you laugh hysterically and frequently.
It’s so good you might find yourself at
work the next day muttering, “Yes, well, okay,
but- but, this is the last straw.”
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| Awards & Nominations: Alas... | Full Cast & Credits: IMdb |
| Links: Official Site, Sites for people who hate to work, www.foxhome.com | |
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