I personally would have liked the film to have been a tad longer, however that said it is an excellent film. The cinematography and direction are both rock solid, the cast helped by great characters do wonderful jobs, alongside Friends and The Iron Giant Office Space is one of the better projects and roles Jennifer Aniston appeared in and the story is very interesting and well paced.

But it is the humour and writing where Office Space really soars. Consistently the writing and humour in Office Space is hilarious yet surrealistically truthful as well. Also this is a film that for me gets better and better every time I feel, I find something new to admire and to smile and laugh at each time.

Overall, Office Space is a great comedy. 9/10 Bethany Cox

Peter Gibbons (Ron Livingston) hates his job fixing the Y2K bug. His friends Michael Bolton (David Herman) and Samir Nagheenanajar (Ajay Naidu) also hate their jobs at the cubicle offices of Initech. VP Bill Lumbergh (Gary Cole) is the annoying boss in charge. Milton Waddams (Stephen Root) is the weirdo working in the next cubicle. Peter is obsessed with waitress Joanna (Jennifer Aniston) working at the local restaurant Chotchkie's. He's still trying to work it out with his girlfriend Anne (Alexandra Wentworth) under hypnotherapist Dr. Swanson. His next door neighbor Lawrence (Diedrich Bader) is loud and inappropriate. Lumbergh brings in consultant Bob Slydell (John C. McGinley). Dr. Swanson hypnotizes Peter but dies after giving him a suggestion. It completely relaxes him and changes his attitude. Anne breaks up with him and he asks Joanna out on a date. He's painfully honest with the consultants and they promote him. When he discovers that Michael and Samir are getting fired, they decide to change the accounting system to embezzle money using a virus like Superman 3.

This is such a fun slacker movie. It skewers the silliness of office work. Mike Judge, who is best known for Beavis and Butt-Head, does a great job pinpointing the weird life of an office. Every other scene has some kind of fun digs. Ron Livingston is a great slacker and he's also a great chilled guy. Jennifer Aniston is actually charming and she gives somebody the finger. There are so many great wacky characters. Stephen Root is hilarious. O-faced guy Drew is memorable. This is a fun easy sly movie.

OFFICE SPACE is an irreverent comedy that makes fun of the inanities of work--particularly in a cubical-ed office where the bosses are morons (not that any of us have ever worked in such an environment, mind you). The film is made up of lots and lots of weird personalities and the stars are Peter, Michael and Samir. Oddly, however, the idea for the film came from a wonderful little animated short by Mike Judge in which the only character was Milton. In other words, while Milton was the inspiration, in the film he was a purely secondary character--though he also was, in my opinion, the funniest thing in the movie. Like Judge's cartoon, in the movie, Milton is completely stepped on and ignored as he mumbles. No one notices that he's mumbling about burning down the company and killing people!! As for the plot, it all revolves around trying to find the best way to work the least and yet keep from getting fired. Michael and Samir haven't mastered this, but Peter, in a funny twist, accidentally hits on the key for not only goofing off and keeping your job but also actually getting advanced in the company! There's a heck of a lot more to it than this and I advise you to watch it--it's very funny, well written, directed and acted.

Here's a final observation. OFFICE SPACE is a very, very good comedy and I enjoyed it very much. However, sometimes I wonder why some films become cult hits and others whither and fade. While OFFICE SPACE didn't do well at the box office, on video and DVD it has already sold 108,902,023,093 copies (and counting). On the other hand, another Mike Judge film that bombed at the box office, IDIOCRACY, also bombed on video and is as popular as leprosy---why is this? I loved both films, but given a choice, I would prefer to see IDIOCRACY and so would many of my friends...yet OFFICE SPACE is the cult hit. I sure wouldn't have been able to predict this--which shows you why I'll never get a job in the film industry (they'd go belly-up in no time).