Office Space

I first watched this is my goverment class in high school and I didnt get the film, as well as not having any interest in watching it. Then after knowing more about Mike Judge, I watched it during the pandemic and it now made sense as I was viewing it as an adult in his thirties instead as a high school student who just turned 18. The time that I rewatched it happened was when a year later many people quit their jobs in the summer of 2021 after realizing that they dont visualize themselves continuing with their careers that they spent most of their adult lives in and replaced it with doing whatever brings them joy. Ive told people Ive had conversations with about the labor shortage that Its Office Space in real life. Plus Jennifer Aniston is fantastic in the film.

I missed seeing this one way back and rediscovered it on youtude when a work-internet sort of company was using some to the cast to recreate scenes of the movie for their Web-Collaboration Tele-Work product (extremely funny ads by the way).

Ask 20- or 30-somethings about this hilarious comedy and you will be deluged by movie quotes, references, and the term a cubicle classic. Most people who have worked in an office will agree that individual scenes in this movie are among the most humorous exposés of cubicle life ever put on screen. While teens will certainly get the jokes, they probably wont identify with the situations as much as a young adult who has experienced office life. There is no doubt that creator/director Mike Judge has an uncanny eye for revealing the humorous realities and hypocrisies of office life. The banal and often inexplicable tasks that people do as well as the defeating weight of bureaucracy are mocked with dead-pan humor in a series of interviews between employees and the consultants. While some parents might find the end scenes problematic, the sketches that comprise the bulk of the movie are painfully funny observations on office life that will leave many saying too true, too true. Still, given the language and sex here, this movie is best for older teens and up.

I watched this movie in high school and thought it was pretty funny. Then I graduated college and started working that cube life. Watched this movie again and got a whole brand new perception on it. Not only hysterically funny, this movie is the most relatable movie I have ever seen. A+ script and A+ acting. Not to mention it has Jenny Aniston in her prime so it is worth watching just for that. I wont say it made me re-evaluate my life, buuuut every time I hear damn it feels good to be a gangsta I get the urge to smash the printer at my office.

I think this was, like for most Gen Xers, possibly my 8th or 9th viewing of this film (maybe once every few years?) Literally never gets old; in fact, it ages like a fine wine, because the more BS Ive seen/heard/lived from humans organizing themselves in work environments of any kind, the more unbelievably perfect this film is in almost every way, from the accurate depiction of boss idiocy to the ludicrousness of cubicle -based and/or chain restaurant employment. A true classic with some of the most spot-on casting of the 90s and the best thinly veiled skewering of TGIFridays (and the rest of their ilk) ever seen on film then or now. Oh, and a killer classic hip hop soundtrack that used to get referenced in my college media studies classes.

Cute office comedy.

That was amazing

Comedic gold

This is a cult classic with a young Jennifer Aniston.

The movie is somewhat dated but is entertaining and has a good storyline that keeps the movie on track. I especially like the assortment of characters in the movie, because without their uniqueness the movie would not be nearly as good.