Product: Office Space (1999)
Rating: 3.0
Nice collection of office skits
The opening credits in Office Space say that the movie is based upon a collection of shorts. This is evident as the movie rolls on.The first section shows everyman Peter dealing with the inanity of a fictitious high tech company.Then Peter gets hypnotized and develops a Chance-like zen quality where he simply decides that he no longer wants to go to the office."I'm not going to go there anymore.""Are you quitting?""No. I'm just not going to go."Naturally, as in Being There, the simple truth leads to tremendous professional success. This could have been developed into a funny theme where the simpleton rises through the company viewing the disfunctional working world through a simpleton's eyes. But the screenwriter has different ideas.In the third part of the movie Peter decides that he and two co-workers will rip off the company with a computer fix. Naturally this goes poorly and he is no longer the simple man of Act 2, but now a typical comic lead character.Office space is laugh-out-loud funny in spots. It shoots fish in a barrel by pointing out how terrible the working life can be. But it never really pulls together into a solid movie.It is cute and fun.