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Ever spend eight hours in a "Productivity Bin"? Ever had worries about layoffs? Ever had the urge to demolish a temperamental printer or fax machine? Ever had to endure a smarmy, condescending boss? Then Office Space should hit pretty close to home for you. Peter (Ron Livingston) spends the day doing stupefyingly dull computer work in a cubicle. He goes home to an apartment sparsely furnished by IKEA and Target, then starts for a maddening commute to work again in the morning. His coworkers in the cube farm are an annoying lot, his boss is a snide, patronizing jerk, and his days are consumed with tedium. In desperation, he turns to career hypnotherapy, but when his hypno-induced relaxation takes hold, there's no shutting it off. Layoffs are in the air at his corporation, and with two coworkers (both of whom are slated for the chute) he devises a scheme to skim funds from company accounts. The scheme soon snowballs, however, throwing the three into a panic until the unexpected happens and saves the day. Director Mike Judge has come up with a spot-on look at work in corporate America circa 1999. With well-drawn characters and situations instantly familiar to the white-collar milieu, he captures the joylessness of many a cube denizen's work life to a T. Jennifer Aniston plays Peter's love interest, a waitress at Chotchkie's, a generic beer-and-burger joint à la Chili's, and Diedrich Bader (The Drew Carey Show) has a minor but hilarious turn as Peter's mustached, long-haired, drywall-installin' neighbor. --Jerry Renshaw
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With flair! (2007-02-23)  If they made a live-action "Dilbert" movie, it might resemble "Office Space" -- a hysterically funny office film by Mike Judge (of "Beavis & Butthead" fame). Filled with quirky characters and a hilarious employee rebellion, this is a movie for anyone who ever felt trapped in a soul-destroying job. Peter (Ron Livingston) spends every day in a cubicle, doing pointless work under the thumb of his smarmy boss. His life is boring, and he doesn't even have the confidence to tell the pretty waitress (Jennifer Aniston) that he likes her. In an effort to relax, he accompanies his controlling girlfriend to a hypnosis session. Unfortunately, the hypnotist dies of a heart attack... while Peter is still under. The next morning, Peter wakes up happy and laid-back -- and determined to get out of his rotten job, and live fat and happy. He conspires with Samir Nagheenanajar (Ajay Naidu) and ill-named Michael Bolton (David Herman) -- two coworkers who are about to be axed -- to skim money off the company's assets with no one the wiser. Only problem is, their scene is rapidly spinning out of control. "Office Space" started off as an early 90s animated skit, featuring the character of Milton. You know, that increasingly deranged employee who complains that "you took my stapler." This time, Milton is a minor character, although a pivotal one. The focus is mainly on the mellowed-out Peter and his wild scheme to profit the downtrodden employees of Initech. Judge creates a hysterical tangle of cubicle workers, layoffs and the most annoying boss in the history of film ("Yeeeeeeaaaahhhh... uhhhhhhh..."). This brand of humor is twisted, down to the slow-motion, ghetto-style beating of the copier in the middle of a field. And of course, the dialogue is quietly insane ("Oh, and next Friday... is Hawaiian shirt day...") as the plot grows grows more and more tense... until you know someone has to snap. The trio of lead characters are a riot -- there's Peter, whose newfound perspective is immensely entertaining. There's Samir, who can barely restrain his simmering rage at his rotten job. And there's Michael, who has a seething resentment that he has the same name as THAT sappy singer. Jennifer Aniston does a pretty good job as a love interest for Peter -- a waittress who hates her job as much as he hates his. "Office Space" has become something of a deserving cult classic -- funny, strange, and sympathetic to the ants that toil in their cubicles. Make more movies, Mike Judge -- especially if they're as good as "Office Space."
Office Space goes where Dilbert fears to tread (2006-09-05) Now, Office Space might look like a movie about this young guy whose whole viewpoint on cubicle hell is changed when his occupational hypnotherapist dies in the middle of a hypnosis session, leaving him with a wonderfully carefree attitude toward the job he despises - but it's not. The real star of this movie is Milton Waddams (Stephen Root), the mumbling, thoroughly mistreated oddball who is pushed beyond his limits after the boss, among other things, steals his stapler. He really loved that stapler, which is why he continued to use it after the company went with a completely different stapler manufacturer. When you're stuck in a cubicle for forty hours a week and forced to watch all sorts of Who Stole My Cheese nonsense taking place all around you, when you're always the odd man out when the boss' yearly birthday cake gets handed out, when you're forced to change cubicles over and over again for no good reason whatsoever, you become Milton. With no control over your life's direction, you cling to any little thing you can find in your three-walled domain - a favorite stapler, your chair (which you really should put your name on, if you want to make sure someone doesn't pull the old switcheroo on you), and the all-consuming importance of locks for your shelves (which the movie completely leaves out, for some reason). Your bosses make fun of you behind your back and think of ways to make your life even more miserable, and you start mumbling all the time. Yes, Milton truly represents those unfortunate enough to be trapped inside cubicle farms.However, since the movie does give young Peter Gibbons (Ron Livingston) and his buddies most of the screen time, I'll talk about them as well. That Pete's really got his head on straight as the movie begins; he has already learned that work is a form of torture that makes every day worse than the one before until you get old and die. His buddies at work are pretty spot-on as well, knowing that the hiring of a consultant means a labor reduction is imminent. Then Peter sees this hypnotherapist who gets him nice and relaxed, with all of his work-related worries washed away - and keels over dead, leaving Peter in a state that can only be described as carefree. He just stops going to work for awhile, but when he does pop in (just to pick up his address book), he goes ahead and talks to the two Bobs (the consultants). His straight-shooting, incredibly honest answers about how little he actually does at the company convince the Bobs that he is upper management material. While Peter's being promoted, though, his buddies Michael Bolton (David Herman) - no, he's not related to that dreadful singer - and Samir Nagheenanajar (Ajay Naidu) are being laid off. That's when Peter comes up with a plan - well, actually, the whole idea was Michael's, but Peter talks him and Samir into actually doing it. They plant a virus-type routine, designed to skim off a fraction of a cent from every transaction, inside the computer system. The plan ends up working too well, though, putting Peter and the guys into quite a potential pickle.I think the film sort of loses its focus during the final half hour. Up until that point, it's a dead-on parody of cubicle life. You've got your fax machine designed to jam as often as possible, your boss who speaks to you as if you're intellectually challenged and never hears a word you say, a whole range of annoying co-workers, etc.. The whole "Didn't you get the memo?" routine captures the very essence of life in the cubicle jungle. A great supporting cast, including Jennifer Aniston as Joanna, a waitress who just says no to "flair," and Diedrich Bader as Peter's next-door-neighbor, really round out the film remarkably well. Even the genius behind the whole film, Mike Judge, joins the fun as Joanna's flair-obsessed manager. Office Space is just a tremendously funny movie that shines the mirror of hilarious truth on the ridiculous nature of far too many modern companies.
More than the minimum flair (2006-06-19) Excellent movie; a classic comedy that anyone with a repetitive job (especially cubicle related) will appreciate and fall in love with. The music in the movie is rather inconsistent with the plot (it's basically all rap) but somehow it actually adds to the humor aspect of it because computer software programmers are the last people on earth that you would associate with a 'gangster' persona.Even if you don't sit at a desk all day, there are some parts of the movie that everyone can relate to and appreciate - from taking a baseball bat to the company's photocopying machine to flipping your boss the bird for not wearing enough 'flair' with your uniform.And always remember, whatever you do, don't take Milton's stapler.
I am writing this from an office cubical. (2006-05-28) Current events mixed with old tales and office lure mix to create one of the best comedies around. This film along with the red Swingline stapler had achieved cult status. As I look around (and stand up) I can see all the personalities depicted in this movie. If anyone wanted to see a movie that mimic like real life this one is it and maybe "Joe Versus the Volcano" (1990) 0790741393. This is much more real than "9 to 5" (1980) ASIN: 6300247236. Just a moment while I expand my cube. (*&*%$#%$&*) There now where was I? Oh yes, Jennifer Aniston shows her flash. It is interesting that the film was made in Austin and Dallas where I am writing this. It must be a sign on some sort. You will see the old story of skimming percentages of a cent off of transactions with a new twist. I have to go now the copier is calling!
I wasn't very impressed... (2006-04-17)  Totally stupid, although pretty realistic. It didn't get me to care for the 2-D characters and it got kinda boring after a while. I love the line "Have you seen my stapler," line though! Pretty funny, not one I would own, though.
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