Product: Office Space (1999)
Rating: 5.0
Work in a cubicle? See this movie!
"Office Space" does for the movies what "Dilbert" did for the comic pages. By taking the insanity of office life to it's logical, but absurd, conclusion "Office Space" has created an instant classic for those of us subjected to the "attack of the MBA's" on a daily basis. At its core the movie asks the question we have all asked, "how much attention is anyone really paying to me?" As the hero repeatedly does and says what we would all like to, he comes to be perceived as a "straight shooter" with "management potential". Likewise, his co-workers represent the gamut of corporate personalities: the inane VP who spews corporate jargon to hide his gross ignorance, the weird guy who seems to operate outside any corporate hierarchy, the useless consultants, the idiotic support staff, they're all there.The plot of the movie revolves around an attempt exact revenge on this corporation by ripping it off. But you can take it or leave it, I would have been content just to watch the actors bash corporate sacred cows for two hours. It's actually almost uplifting because it reassures the viewer that they are not alone in confronting stupidity on the job.In the end, this is a shallow movie, and the DVD has no interesting extra features. That doesn't matter though, because it is also a hysterically funny, dead on satire of office life. If you're just looking for an escape from the daily grind, this is the movie for you.