Product: Office Space (1999)
Rating: 2.0
Okay Movie, But Not for Everyone
I bought this movie after hearing about it numerous times over the past few years. I kept hearing how hilariously funny it was and how I just had to see it!I like "quirky" films like Little Shop of Horrors (musical version), Serial Mom, Chasing Amy, etc, but this movie fell short in so many ways. I have worked in "the office" for over 10 years. I spend my 8, or 9, or 10, or more hours a day in a cubicle with no view to speak of. I know all about crappy office equipment, the difficulty getting office supplies, the stereotypical annoying people, the feeling that any day someone will come by and tell me that I'm no longer needed, etc. But, this movie just didn't capitalize enough on the humor that is found in everyday work. I think I could take a video camera to my job for a week and come away with two hours worth of funnier material.I was truly disappointed in the path that the storyline took - what was that whole program to steal less than a penny from hundreds of "accounts" so the characters could come away with a few hundred thousand dollars at the end of 3 or 4 years? That part of the movie was so ridiculous, it wasn't even slightly funny. In all honesty, the best characters in the movie were the next door neighbor to the main character, and the waitress (Jennifer Aniston). If not for them, I don't think I would have even smiled once throughout the whole movie.I don't know who I would recommend this movie to. I guess the people who gave it a good review here. For the most part, it's only worth a watch so you can talk about it with others or have knowledge of some of the scenes when others bring the movie up. But, for me, I wish I had only rented it, and I wish I hadn't wasted two hours of my already small number of free hours...