Product: Office Space (1999)
Rating: 4.0
please spare me from these jobs...
This is one of those movies that sneaks up on you. I don't even remember it being released, but here we are 2 years later and it's on Comedy Central every 20 minutes and it's just something you have to have seen, because otherwise when you ask what someone does and they say "oh, I have one of those Office Space jobs" you won't know what they're talking about. And they will say that. I did enjoy the movie, don't get me wrong. But watching it was more something I did because as a recent college graduate I just had to have seen it if I was going to be culturally literate. Really, I should be able to quote from it, so I need to see it a couple more times.There's kind of an early Kevin Smith feel to the whole thing. Like, Clerks or Mallrats. By that I mean the characterization isn't super deep and the acting isn't Oscar material, but they don't have to be because the dialogue and situations are on target. Obviously I don't mean most of us are embezzling, but the set-up and the fantasy are realistic. It's funny and close to a lot of people's lives, and it's kind of nice to see normalish lives in a movie. Jennifer Aniston is good, as she generally is, but underused. Maybe the other actors are underused, but since I haven't seen them in anything else, I couldn't know that.