6/10. Office Space is one of those movies that, well, cuss a lot. Then again it's a Rated R movie. Peter Gibbons is a guy that is bored with life. Like what Rater #2 says, the first half is pretty funny but the 2nd is kind of screwy.
The acting was so-so. Seen better, seen worse. I can't say that I've heard of anyone on this cast list except for Jennifer Aniston. Her role was small, and had too much "flair". Well, she needed "flair". Ron Livingston was ok. He always seemed to be on drugs. That's just how his character was, on cloud 9.
The character that I most liked and felt sorry for was Milton played by Stephen Root. He always seemed to get pushed around, and no one told him anything. Though, he told other people a lot, so I guess there is a trade off. Wanting cake and never getting it. Loved his stapler but it was taken away. You just felt sorry for him
All in all, this was an ok movie. This could have been a PG-13 movie if there wasn't so much cussing, but hey, I didn't make this movie.
Rater #2
7/10-In Mike Judge's (TV's Beavis and Butt-Head and King of the Hill)
funny but flawed Office Space, Ron Livingston plays Peter Gibbons, a
drone worker who is working the Y2K bug at a company called Initech.
He's about fed up about it, and so are co-workers Samir (Ajay Naidu)
and Michael Bolton (David Herman), and yes, that is his real name.
Peter decides that he isn't going to quit work, he just isn't going
to go. He strikes up a relationship with waitress Joanna (Jennifer
Aniston), who is the second person billed and yet has about four
scenes in the movie.
In short, Office Space is funny. However, its characters leave
something to be desired. There were too many secondary people to
really have us understand who they were. If they had had another part
of the series (or something, like a TV show), then it would have been
a lot easier to know everyone. The main characters had a droll humor
that was likeable.
The script, though not packed with crude bodily function jokes, was
funny and was masterfully written. It makes you forget about
something and as soon as you do, it comes back to play (Milton, for
instance). The script, on the other hand, had almost no plot. The
first half was very funny as we see the lives of a Dilbert who hates
his job. The second half gets into this whole crime speil about
getting fractions of a penny. It would have been more fun if they had
either taken that whole part out and made it more of a "sketch" type
movie or gone with the crime part the whole way.
In a hilarious side-part, Stephen Root plays Milton, a dull roundish
man who always gets "left out", so to speak. But don't take his
stapler. He proves important at the end of the movie, even if he
doesn't seem like he would be. Judge took this whole Office Space
idea from his SNL skits about Milton and a 1991 short also entitled
Office Space.
Office Space is a funny fable of cubicle-gone-wrong that does have
some errors, but you can probably look over them.
