Product: Office Space (1999)
Rating: 4.0
What's the matter with you? Didn't you get that memo?
What makes good comedy really funny is an element of truth. Office Space has more than just an element. Who hasn't worked in an office setting, and heard those words, "What's the matter with you, didn't you get that memo?", or something to that effect. The whole film is about a working "life" in a dull office that is very reality based. It makes me wonder if Mike Judge spent all of his time working in an office job that he hated, before going on to create Beavis and Butthead.The movie offers loads of belittling contempt for those condescending and overbearing office managers and for those brought in to assist with the downsizing of a company. The movie even offers a way out for the protagonist in the story. Watching his story made me think that the way he drifted away from his life of each day being worse than the next might just work. Ron Livingston reminded me of Ferris Buehler in this movie, which was a good thing.The movie has plenty of laughs for those that have worked any kind of office job. It would be so funny . . . if it weren't so true, but you'll laugh anyway.As a DVD, the movie in this medium doesn't offer that much. I'm still looking for the easter eggs on this disc, but haven't found any.