Not since "CB4" has a movie been so much less than the sum of its parts. "Office Space" is well worth seeing simply because it has so many truly hilarious scenes. If you don't laugh out loud during this movie you are either totally humor-impaired or you have never worked a day in your life.
The Fridays-esque "Tchotchke's" restaurant with it's over-hyped waiter selling "extreme fajitas", mumbling Milton taking endless abuse from a slick-talking do-nothing Porsche-driving Bill Lumbergh, the "Goodfellas"-style destruction of the always uncooperative fax machine, Peter cleaning fish at his desk, being outpaced by an old man with a walker during the impossibly frustrating traffic on the way to work, Michael Bolton's fear of letting a black man hear him pumping gangster rap, the list of truly funny scenes in "Office Space" just goes on and on.
Too bad the plot that ties it all together is trite, boring and stupid. In the end, it really doesn't matter that much as the gaps between funny scenes are so small that you don't really care what moves you from scene to scene anyways, but with a more thought-out plot that was as inspired as its individual scenes, "Office Space" might have been one of the greatest movies ever. As it is, I gave it a solid 8, it will not fail to entertain, just don't bother keeping track of what's going on.
The Fridays-esque "Tchotchke's" restaurant with it's over-hyped waiter selling "extreme fajitas", mumbling Milton taking endless abuse from a slick-talking do-nothing Porsche-driving Bill Lumbergh, the "Goodfellas"-style destruction of the always uncooperative fax machine, Peter cleaning fish at his desk, being outpaced by an old man with a walker during the impossibly frustrating traffic on the way to work, Michael Bolton's fear of letting a black man hear him pumping gangster rap, the list of truly funny scenes in "Office Space" just goes on and on.
Too bad the plot that ties it all together is trite, boring and stupid. In the end, it really doesn't matter that much as the gaps between funny scenes are so small that you don't really care what moves you from scene to scene anyways, but with a more thought-out plot that was as inspired as its individual scenes, "Office Space" might have been one of the greatest movies ever. As it is, I gave it a solid 8, it will not fail to entertain, just don't bother keeping track of what's going on.