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Bullz-Eye.com
The reason "Office Space" resonates with so many people is because a large
percentage of the working class do not love what they do. Our lives are mired in
the kind of banality that Judge both celebrates and subverts. There are no real
heroes or ...read the complete Office Space movie review at Bullz-Eye.com
The Reel McCoy (Patrick McCoy)
This movie is an instant classic. For anyone who has ever worked in an office environment (and for that matter, anyone who hasn't) this movie is simply hilarious. The story follows the life of Peter, an ordinary guy working for a software company called ...read the complete Office Space movie review at The Reel McCoy (Patrick McCoy)
eFilmCritic.com (Brian Mckay)
more than a comedy . . . it is an anthem for the downtrodden cube-borgs everywhere, who have had the life and soul stomped out of them by an uncaring corporate entity. ...read the complete Office Space movie review at eFilmCritic.com (Brian Mckay)
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Arizona Daily Star (Phil Villarreal)
Who hasn't sat at his desk after lunch and spaced out for an hour? Who wouldn't love to march the copy machine into a field and go to town on it with a baseball bat? ...read the complete Office Space movie review at Arizona Daily Star (Phil Villarreal)
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Movie Gazette (Gary Panton)
This hilarious pencil-pushing journey through office politics is worthy of taking up a space in anyone's DVD collection. ...read the complete Office Space movie review at Movie Gazette (Gary Panton)
Christian Pyle
Meanwhile, Peter is dating Joanne (Jennifer Aniston), a waitress at Chotchkie's, one of those trendy barngrills where the cubicle class gather. Joanne is also having problems with her job. She's required to wear at least fifteen "pieces of flair" (inane ...read the complete Office Space movie review at Christian Pyle
Film Quips Online (John R. McEwen)
Writer/director/producer Judge, who started life in Ecuador, has a talent for capturing the quirks of the American way of life with his various series. Office Space is another example. Judge's plots may be a bit shallow, but his characters, and the ...read the complete Office Space movie review at Film Quips Online (John R. McEwen)
DVD Clinic (Scott Weinberg)
A mild-mannered office drone has a life-altering epiphany after being hypnotized and hatches a vengeful scheme to get back at his soul-crushing workplace. ...read the complete Office Space movie review at DVD Clinic (Scott Weinberg)
Marshall Garvey
Written and directed by Mike Judge (who also wrote the Saturday Night Live "Milton" shorts the film is based on), "Office Space" is an uproariously funny and sharp comedy that jumps down the throat of both office and everyday life so precisely that it's ...read the complete Office Space movie review at Marshall Garvey
ToxicUniverse.com (John Nesbit)
Although it's hardly profound or revealing, the comedy doesn't insult our intelligence as it pokes fun at an industry that often takes itself far too seriously. Not that the employees regard their work with the same earnestness -- most ...read the complete Office Space movie review at ToxicUniverse.com (John Nesbit)
Steve Rhodes
As the movie opens, Peter and his coworkers are stuck in a parking lot masquerading as a highway as they inch toward a company called Initech, where they work on banking software. Peter has 8 bosses, probably due to the wonders of dottedline management, ...read the complete Office Space movie review at Steve Rhodes
Film Threat, Hollywood's Indie Voice
For a guy who started out making little animated shorts by himself in his garage in Texas, it's pretty amazing Mike Judge turned out to be one of the great chroniclers of American life. I guess if animation does nothing else, it forces you to pay ...read the complete Office Space movie review at Film Threat, Hollywood's Indie Voice
filmcritic.com (Christopher Null)
Give Beavis and Butt-Head creator Mike Judge enough rope, and he may just hang himself. In his first live-action outing, Judge does a fair job at making sick jokes about corporate America, he just doesn’t seem to make enough of them, ultimately ...read the complete Office Space movie review at filmcritic.com (Christopher Null)
Movies for Guys
If you answered yes to any of these questions then you're gonna love this movie! There's so much truth in this movie it's scary... I swear I've worked with people like this, in ...read the complete Office Space movie review at Movies for Guys
Bangor Daily News (Maine) (Christopher Smith)
Plays like a live-action version of the "Dilbert" comic strip. A smart, funny satire. ...read the complete Office Space movie review at Bangor Daily News (Maine) (Christopher Smith)
Bangor Daily News (Maine) (Christopher Smith)
Plays like a live-action version of the "Dilbert" comic strip. A smart, funny satire. ...read the complete Office Space movie review at Bangor Daily News (Maine) (Christopher Smith)
Hollywood Report Card (Ross Anthony)
Office Space is funny!
"It's not that I'm lazy -- I just don't care,"
Peter (Livingston) explains to the two shocked
efficiency experts hired to down-size the software
company at which he works. ...read the complete Office Space movie review at Hollywood Report Card (Ross Anthony)
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"Office Space" gathers its laugh out-loud humor from relating to the audience. From the opening scene, it is clear that this movie recognizes the frustrations people endure everyday in the working world. It is a comedy that has characters that run ...read the complete Office Space movie review at UpcomingDiscs.com (Clayton Self)
JoBlo's Movie Emporium ("JoBlo")
This movie has many chuckles, some laugh out loud scenes, other shrugs of the shoulder, in a humorous and poignant office setting, which touches upon much of the inhumanity and hypocrisy that permeates the high-tech cubicles environments of our day. I ...read the complete Office Space movie review at JoBlo's Movie Emporium ("JoBlo")
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After a hypnosis session goes awry (the hypnotist dies), Peter decides that he just won't try anymore. It's not that he decides to get fired, he just decides not to try anymore. He doesn't go in to work, he saunters nonchalantly past his protesting ...read the complete Office Space movie review at Goatdog's Movies (Michael W. Phillips, Jr.)
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Anyone who's logged time in an office will be laughing hysterically at all of the little indignities. ...read the complete Office Space movie review at Film Threat (Ron Wells)
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If the movie suffers from mild aimlessness and editorial confusion, and it does, those are relatively small speed bumps to endure for such a canny and quick-witted affair. ...read the complete Office Space movie review at DVD Clinic (Scott Weinberg)
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I spent seven years working in a corporate office environment. During that time I had to deal with the red-tape of bureaucracy, overbearing and inherently lazy bosses, and some of the strangest people you could ever imagine in an office. Still, all of ...read the complete Office Space movie review at CinemaBlend - DVD Review (Rafe Telsch)
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This film, the first live-action offering from Mike Judge, creator of "Beavis and Butt-head" and "King of the Hill," is a wry tale of vengeance against cubicle culture, and anyone who has ever worked in one will find much to laugh about. I, for one, ...read the complete Office Space movie review at Q Network Film Desk (James Kendrick)
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A mildly funny satire on contemporary office work in America. ...read the complete Office Space movie review at Ozus' World Movie Reviews (Dennis Schwartz)
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Philip Martin)
The pleasures are mild and offset by irritations, but on balance the movie isn't so bad. You'll laugh, you'll sigh -- you'll look at your watch. ...read the complete Office Space movie review at Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Philip Martin)
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It's essentially a series of shorts linked together, but this doesn't deny the movie's deft examination of the insane minutia that plague contemporary workers. ...read the complete Office Space movie review at Sacramento Bee (Joe Baltake)
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Movie Hell (Michael J. Legeros)
OFFICE SPACE is oft-hilarious. "Beavis and Butt-head" and "King of the Hill" creator Mike Judge makes his live-action feature-film debut with this Dilbert-esque cubicle comedy about downsizing at a software firm. The plotting is erratic as hell, the ...read the complete Office Space movie review at Movie Hell (Michael J. Legeros)
Qwipster's Movie Reviews (Vince Leo)
Due to a hypnotic suggestion,
a young office worker decides not to go into work anymore while his company is
in the process of laying off unnecessary employees. Then, to his surprise, he is
not only not laid off, but actually given a promotion ...read the complete Office Space movie review at Qwipster's Movie Reviews (Vince Leo)
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Movie Martyr (Jeremy Heilman)
Office Space, directed by Mike Judge (which is much closer in subject matter to Dilbert cartoons than MTV’s Beavis and Butthead, which Judge created) starts out promisingly enough. Peter Gibbons (Ron Livingston), the film’s “hero”, is fed up with his ...read the complete Office Space movie review at Movie Martyr (Jeremy Heilman)
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MediaCircus (Anthony Leong)
Mike Judge has made quite a name for himself in the field of animation, first with being the infamous creator of "Beavis and Butthead", as well as creating the hit Fox primetime animated series "King of the Hill". "Office Space" is Judge's first foray ...read the complete Office Space movie review at MediaCircus (Anthony Leong)
DeWyNGaLe
The style of comedy used in Office Space is one of my favorites sarcastic comedy. Ron Livingston, played by Peter Gibbons, is an employee at Initech, a computer company. His boss Bill, played by Gary Cole, is very laid back and kind of "clueless." Ron ...read the complete Office Space movie review at DeWyNGaLe
Susan Granger
Just imagine Scott Adams' comic strip "Dilbert" on the big screen and you've got the concept of this caustic comedy. Which is not surprising since it's written and directed by Mike Judge, the creator of "Beavis and Butthead" and "King of the Hill." Ron ...read the complete Office Space movie review at Susan Granger
SPLICEDwire (Rob Blackwelder)
Joe Barlow
Peter Gibbons (Ron Livingston) is a programmer working on the Year 2000 problem for Initech, but he finds his job so tedious and meaningless that he spends most of his time staring at his desk. His friend and coworker, the unfortunatelynamed Michael ...read the complete Office Space movie review at Joe Barlow
Cinematter (Matt Williams)
It was only a matter of time before a Dilbert-esque office comedy hit the screens. However, rather than coming from Dilbert creator Scott Adams, Office Space is instead based on the work of another animator, Mike Judge, creator of Beavis and Butthead ...read the complete Office Space movie review at Cinematter (Matt Williams)
Media-Assault.com (Sean Caszatt)
If you've ever worked in a mind-numbing job with 8 bosses above you, all of whom feel it necessary to reprimand you for the same insignificant mistake, you'll love Office Space. Following up his successful Beavis & ButtHead Do America film and King ...read the complete Office Space movie review at Media-Assault.com (Sean Caszatt)
Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
Mike Judge's ``Office Space'' is a comic cry of rage against the nightmare of modern office life. It has many of the same complaints as ``Dilbert'' and the movie ``Clockwatchers'' and, for ...read the complete Office Space movie review at Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
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Michael Dequina
Judge's recreation of souldeadening busy work is so painfully deadon hilarious that it wouldn't really matter if there were much of a plotand there really isn't much of one. Fed up with his unfulfilling, underappreciated efforts and his smarmy, ...read the complete Office Space movie review at Michael Dequina
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From that point on, well, you know the story — you've seen it many, many times before. No need to go into the specifics of the film's eventual bogging down as it sinks into the familiar quagmires of unnecessary subplots and last-minutes attempts at ...read the complete Office Space movie review at AboutFilm.com (Kris Campbell)
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Edwin Jahiel
Would you believe that it's been almost twenty years since "9 to 5" (1980), the famously funny revolt and revenge of three women secretaries? It's also the first movie that comes to my mind in the office sufferers category. The topic has been an element ...read the complete Office Space movie review at Edwin Jahiel
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Scott Renshaw
It's not a new target for Judge. In fact, the animated shorts he created about a putupon office worker named Milton (played in the film by "NewsRadio's" Stephen Root) even predate "Beavis & Butthead." Here he expands the concept to focus on a computer ...read the complete Office Space movie review at Scott Renshaw
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (Jack Garner)
If you've ever wanted to take a baseball bat to a recalcitrant fax machine or ignore your idiot boss when he asks you to work over the weekend, you'll feel at home inOffice Space.For his first live-action feature film,Beavis and ...read the complete Office Space movie review at Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (Jack Garner)
ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
There's a reason why the core theme of Mike Judge's Office Space - satirizing the office work environment -- is rarely used as the backbone of a feature motion picture, despite an almost universal appeal. It's because, no matter how clever and incisive th ...read the complete Office Space movie review at ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
Movie Habit (Marty Mapes)
Office Space has the look and feel of a low-budget student film, with cheap sets, lots of gags, and a few unknown actors. Combined with the moth-eaten, patchwork plot, a less funny movie could have been downright bad. But luckily for Judge — and ...read the complete Office Space movie review at Movie Habit (Marty Mapes)
ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
Since creating "Beavis and Butthead" and "King of the Hill", Judge has been a hot commodity. This is his first live-action motion picture, and he brings his trademark irreverent sense of humor to the project. In a more concentrated form (perhaps ...read the complete Office Space movie review at ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
Matt Prigge
On his way to work, he gets stuck in a mindblowing traffic jam, and every time he successfully gets into the moving lane, the lane stops moving, and the lane he was just in starts moving miraculously. He glances out of his blind spot and notices the old ...read the complete Office Space movie review at Matt Prigge
F.LM - Texte zum Film
Für Peter ist jeder Arbeitstag der schlimmste Tag seines Lebens. Er arbeitet bei einer Computerfirma, hat acht Vorgesetzte und offensichtlich ein Problem mit TPS-Berichten (glauben zumindest die Chefs). Dabei sind eigentlich die Führungskräfte sein ...read the complete Office Space movie review at F.LM - Texte zum Film
Akiva Gottlieb
The whole "work is hell" message of OFFICE SPACE doesn't work nearly as well as it did in last year's CLOCKWATCHERS. One of the reasons for this is that Judge, like the Farrelly brothers, isn't above adding stupid subplots to generate some laughs. The ...read the complete Office Space movie review at Akiva Gottlieb
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Jam! Movies (Bob Thompson)
Besides Judge's basic ability to write a decent '90s pop culture gag, Livingston seems to understand the work-challenged mentality of his poor schmo, Peter Gibbons. ...read the complete Office Space movie review at Jam! Movies (Bob Thompson)
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Fed up with office politics and corporate culture, Ron Livingston stops working -- and starts getting ...read the complete Office Space movie review at kids-in-mind
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When Peter actively rebels and is ironically rewarded for his efforts by the head honchos, the picture loses its bite -- what began as discomfiting satire soon devolves into silly farce. ...read the complete Office Space movie review at Globe and Mail (Rick Groen)
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It has the loose-jointed feel of a bunch of sketches packed together into a narrative that doesn't gather much momentum. ...read the complete Office Space movie review at New York Times (Stephen Holden)
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What a waste of 1 hour and 20 minutes. Although this was a relatively short movie, it seemed like I just wasted over an hour of my life. Granted, some parts of this movie were funny, overall, the movie pretty much sucked. From Mike Judge, the creator of ...read the complete Office Space movie review at Movielocity Movie Reviews (Blake Kunisch)
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by darin on January 21, 2009 North Salt Lake, Utah
This movie is one of the best comedy of all times. I love this movie. Even though it has been almost 10 years since this movie has come out, I still find myself saying lines from this movie. Very good. A must see in my eyes. Love it. ...
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