Product: Office Space (1999)
Rating: 4.0
"'PC Load Letter'? What the --- does that mean?"
Writer/director Mike Judge's understated satire of flourescent cubicle-angst keeps the tone subdued and lets the absurdity simply show itself. This well-made film was an instant-classic cult film and found many adherents on its first video run for good reason. We root for our protagonist Peter to stay in his occupational hypnotherapist-induced state of carelessness and not "get back with the program" as he and his two downsized friends seek to "Superman 3" their ex-company of a fortune (as payback for being summarily laid off). From the ironic gangsta-rap soundtrack to the narcotizing voice of the boss Lumbergh and Stephen Root's mumbling & near psychotic Milton, "Office Space" offers no big critique, but a good time.