Product: Office Space (1999)
Rating: 5.0
Damn it feels good to be a gangsta...
Office Space is the ultimate comedy for bored, middle class, gen Xers (the kind of folk who frequent amazon.com for example...). Guilty as charged - I love it! While office comedies in the past typically revolved around the protagonist trying desperately not to lose their job (The Apartment springs to mind...), the everyman in this movie refreshingly doesn't care. I think this touches a nerve in the heart of everyone who watches it knowing that their life does, or someday will, revolve around a clock, a computer and socializing with a group of people you would otherwise avoid like the plague...Mike Judge creates a fantastic bunch of characters, largely unsympathetic and weaves a plot around them that, while reminiscent of Superman 3, ends up playing second fiddle to the sharp dialogue, the set-piece sketches and the ironic, but perfectly captured interpersonal relationships that will resonate so intensely with the right viewer.The only people I've ever heard of who didn't like this film were a bunch of management consultants from London who didn't find it at all funny... It's too close to home and it's too near the bone...It's also amusing to see how "Office Space" has crept into the cultural vernacular - pick up any issue of FHM, Maxim and the like and you'll find plenty of sly references to TPS reports, staplers and "Ummm....Yeah...What's Happening?".You owe it to yourself to watch this movie!