Product: Office Space (1999)
Rating: 4.0
One of the year's funniest.
I've been waiting for this to come out on video. I saw it twice the weekend it came out because I knew it wouldn't be in the theaters long. The critics didn't seem to like it, but they're all idiots anyway, and most of them have probably never had a real job so they just can't identify. Mike Judge has an eye for all the nuances of office life - he's a lot more savy than that jerk who does Dilbert, which is just the same joke rehashed over and over. After I saw this film, I had a hard time not re-enacting all the funniest bits for my friends who hadn't seen it - but I tried to resist so that I wouldn't spoil it for them when it came out on video. The reason I don't give it five stars is that, even though I loved it, it was pretty lightweight and I couldn't justify to myself giving it the same rating I would give, say, "Citizen Kane."