Ameriatch One of the best films i have seen

Brennan Camacho Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

Stephanie There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

AudioFileZ Office Space is a comedy I come back to every year or so. It's hard to believe it's now almost 18-years (as of 2018) since it came out. It's still wickedly funny in spite of age. Probably because it deconstructs the banality and ridiculous nature of corporate low-level thankless employment it hits a sweet spot which still rings true. Ron Livingston is excellent as Peter who is most definitely in a rut at work and in life. He has excellent co-stars, and sympathetic co-workers, in David Herman as Michael Bolton and Ajay Naidu as Samir. They make a good team these three as they all hate their jobs at Initech. Initech is a generic large company with all the plenty of goofy employees which the movie exaggerates to perfection. In this group there's gold in boss Bill Lumbergh (Gary Cole) and disgrunted misfit (actually fired several years earlier unknown to him) Milton (Stephen Root). Jennifer Anniston is on board too as Peter's love interest and she makes the most of limited screen time. So, the cast is really well-suited for Mike Judge's lampooning of banal employment. The humor is laced through and through and it hits almost every time simply because it takes elements of truth we can all relate to and exponentially multiplies it to perfection. It never goes so far as to loose the grounding that everything it pokes fun at has a real world truth. I even get a kick out of how the stupidy of theme restaurants which gets thrown in! This movie has depth of layering as it connects the different pieces quite well. Something as simple as a copying machine malfunction becomes hilarious because we all can relate. This is a great comedy because it exposes the absurdity often found in reality, and does so brilliantly. I'm glad I watched it for who knows tenth time and I'm sure in a year or so I'll do it all over again. That's my highest recomendation.

garthlotel This is arguably one of the greatest satirical movies of all time. It is very clever and sharp, with the perfect mix of characters, comedy and pathos. Not to be missed.

Jackson Booth-Millard I had seen the poster for this movie numbers of times, I knew obviously the setting, but I was just looking forward to finding out more for myself, written and directed by Mike Judge, creator of Beavis Butt- Head and King of the Hill. Basically at a company called Initech, programmer Peter Gibbons (The Conjuring's Ron Livingston) is frustrated and unmotivated at his job, his co-workers include software engineers Michael Bolton (David Herman) and Samir Nagheenanajar (Ajay Naidu), who also hate Initech, and meek collator Milton Waddams (Stephen Root) who is mostly ignored by all in the office. The staff are constantly mistreated by management, especially by the boss, smarmy and obnoxious vice president Bill Lumbergh (Gary Cole), whom Peter loathes. Peter's agitation is increased by the arrival Bob Slydell (Scrubs' John C. McGinley) and Bob Porter (Paul Willson), two consultants brought in to help the company through downsizing and outsourcing. Peter is persuaded by his girlfriend Anne (Alexandra Wentworth) to attend an occupational hypnotherapy session, therapist Dr. Swanson (Michael McShane) puts Peter in a trance, to feel calmer at work, but the doctor dies of a heart attack before he can bring click his fingers. Peter wakes up the next morning newly relaxed, he ignores repeated phone calls from work, and from Anne, who angrily admits she had been cheating on him and breaks up with him. With his newfound calmness, and skipping work again the following day, Peter decides to ask Joanna (Jennifer Aniston), a waitress at nearby chain restaurant Chotchkie's, out to lunch, they bond over their shared loathing of idiotic management and have a shared love in the TV show Kung Fu. When Peter does finally show up at work, he casually disregards office protocol, including violating Initech's dress code, taking Lumbergh's reserved parking space, refusing to follow directions, and removing a cubicle wall, the consultants however are impressed by his attitude and promote him. The consultants confide that Michael and Samir will lose their jobs, Peter relays this news to them, the three of them decide to get even by infecting the company's accounting system with a virus designed to divert fractions of pennies into a bank account, they believe the transactions are small enough to avoid detection, but over time it will result in a substantial amount of money. At a barbecue, Peter learns that Joanna slept with a colleague, identified as "Lumbergh", he assumes it is his boss (this also seems to trigger the end of his calm state), he is disgusted and confronts her, and she questions his financial scheme, they split up. Peter discovers a bug in the virus Michael created, it has caused them to steal over $300,000 in only a few days, a more conspicuous amount, because Michael put a decimal point in the wrong place, meanwhile Joanna stands up to her boss at Chotchkie's about the stupid flairs policy and she quits. Peter discovers that the "Lumbergh" Joanna slept with is not his boss, he admits to her that the laundering scheme was a bad idea and plans to take responsibility for the crime, Peter and Joanna make up. Peter writes a letter confessing everything and slips it, along with travellers checks for the stolen money, under Lumbergh's door late at night. The next morning, Milton has become more and more dissatisfied with his treatment by management, to the point where he mumbles threats about setting the building on fire. Peter fully expects to be arrested arriving to work, but instead he finds his problem solved, the Initech building is on fire, and all evidence of the missing money has been destroyed. In the end Peter finds a more satisfactory job doing construction work, with his next-door neighbour Lawrence (Diedrich Bader), Samir and Michael find work at Initech's competitor Initrode, and Milton lounges on a beach in a Mexican resort, he mumbles threats after complaining about his beverage. Also starring Richard Riehle as Tom Smykowski, Joe Bays as Dom Portwood, Kinna McInroe as Nina, Todd Duffey as Chotchkie's Waiter, Greg Pitts as Drew and Orlando Jones as Steve. The cast is made up of mostly unknowns, Livingston does well as the bored office worker, Aniston is beautiful and likable, and Cole is suitably irritating as the dreary boss, it is a very simple story about people in an everyday mundane job, and some of the silly routines and rules of the workplace, the jokes are mostly droll and obvious, it does slow a little towards the end, but overall it is an interesting and amusing unconventional satirical comedy. Worth watching!

Abby Watts One of the classic spoofs of corporate work. Mike Judge nails the monotony, the pettiness, and general stupidity of the TEAM CORPORATION! environment that corporations create. Look, we understand, we have to work for you, but don't for godsakes make us sing a song every morning or go on some retarded company retreat. And most of all, stop telling us we're part of a team or, even worse, part of a family. You are not my family. My family can't fire me. You can. So. Stop. It.The hollowness and absurdity of modern corporate life is brilliantly portrayed here and even though this movie was made in the late 90's, it still resonates perfectly for today.Mike Judge would go on to make what I consider his Magnum Opus, 'Idiocracy' (one of the greatest comedies ever made), but this was a fantastic waystation.I believe you have my stapler?