Office Space | | Cast : | Ron Livingston, Jennifer Aniston | | Director : | Mike Judge | | Studio : | Twentieth Century Fox | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen | | Released Date : | February 19, 1999 | | DVD Released Date : | August 14, 2001 | | Language : | English (Subtitled), English (Dubbed), English (Original Language), French (Original Language), Spanish (Subtitled) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | August 01, 2005 | | Summary | NOT REALLY WIDESCREEN | Content
 | Do not buy this DVD if you are an aspect ratio purist. I believe this is one of those tragic cases where the FULLSCREEN version was cropped to create a fake widescreen version (as was done with Terminator 3) . You are getting a twice cropped film here, and thus, much less picture than the already cropped fullscreen version.
This "widescreen" version has chopped off heads in every shot and in a couple of scenes the characters are chopped off from left to right. NOT WHAT THE DIRECTOR FILMED.
The news is that Office Space Special Edition is due out in late 2005. Wait for it....HOPEFULLY it will be in the true theatrical release aspect ratio. |
| Rating | | | Date | July 24, 2005 | | Summary | Almost perfect | Content
| Relevant topic, great natural acting, funny, this movie has it all, almost. My big problem is with the soundtrack. The low-class rap garbage does not match the screen action or the themes in anyway, and only cheapens the film. |
| Rating | | | Date | July 19, 2005 | | Summary | Very Funny | Content
| This is a very funny movie, we make reference to it a lot at work like "What would you do with a million bucks?" The movie is just very funny -- it fades at the end a bit, but it is still good stupid fun. Also,if you have ever had to suffer really stupid jerk managers at work you will more than likely find the movie very funny. |
| Rating | | | Date | July 17, 2005 | | Summary | I Believe You Have My Stapler.... | Content
| Ok, I worked for a major HMO last year. I was also confined to a small gray cubicle for 8 hours a day. And after watching Office Space, I quit a month later. Coincidence? Maybe. But it was like watching my life unfold on screen! Having 4 bosses "remind" you about a tiny mistake that doesn't really matter, the doggone fax machine that is your sworn enemy, and of course the office FREAK, who you know is gonna someday show up to the work place armed! This movie has it all, and it's hilarious! So, if you get a case of the mondays, call in sick, and watch this movie! |
| Rating | | | Date | July 12, 2005 | | Summary | LIKE WATCHING MY LIFE STORY | Content
| Anyone who has ever worked in an office environment with at least a medium-sixed company can relate to this fantastic film. One wonders why Mike Judge does not direct more. He's an enormous talent and this movie is dead on target. Virtually anyone who has work in an office can identify with out of control birthday celebrations, the joy of working in a cubicle, the big bosses creeping around, and the unGodly threat of consultants.
I remember my own meeting with a consultant. Talk about bubble-brained. I'd love to get paid for a job like that. And oh..the timesheet thing and multiple job codes. I swear Judge must have visited the place where I USED to work! Anyway we've got Peter Gibbons (Ron Livingston) working to update Y2K software for the company he works for. He hates it...he's bored with it...and his bosses keep hounding him for TPS reports. One day he just decides to not show up for work. He's not quitting..he just isn't going to go anymore. He comes in finally to pickup his address book and has his meetings with the consultants played marvelously by John C. McGinley and Paul Stewart as the "Bobs".
Peter explains how he comes in late and only does about 15 minutes of real work in a week. The Consultants immediately see him as management material and want to promote him! Classic! Richard Riehle as Tom Smykowski has a classic meltdown when he meets with the consultants screaming, "I HAVE PEOPLE SKILLS...I'M GOOD WITH PEOPLE!!! WHAT THE HELL'S THE MATTER WITH YOU PEOPLE!" Gary Cole steals the show as smarmy, do-nothing boss Bill Lumbergh whose shallow politeness makes you just want to poke his eyes out. When Peter finds out two of his buddies are going to be laid off they hatch a plot to infect the accounting software with a virus and move money into an account they've opened.
Jennifer Aniston is Joanna who has her own work problems working for one of those generic bar & grill type restaurants and Steven Root is tremendous as the sheepish, squirrely Milton who was supposed to have been laid off five years earlier but was never told.
Judge obviously has a great grasp of the office environment and his biting satire of dealing with the firing of employees ought to serve as a swift kick in the butt for all greedy corporate upper management. Tremendous film that only gets funnier everytime you see it. |
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