Synopsis: Work Sucks!

Fasten your ergonomic seat belt.. You’re in for a hilarious ride through the inner workings of Office Space, the outrageous hit comedy that ” will strike fear into the little hearts of bosses everywhere.”

Unable to endure another mind-numbing day at Initech Corporation, cubicle slave Peter Gibbons (Ron Livingston) gets fired up..and decides to get fired. Armed with a leisurely new attitude and a sexy new girlfriend (Jennifer Aniston), he soon masters the art of neglecting his job, which quickly propels him into the ranks of upper management!
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Office Space 7.5

I can’t say that I’m a big fan of Mike Judge. I thought that Beavis and Butthead were too stupid to be entertaining and, consequently, I never really bothered to check out the rest of his career.

But ‘Office Space’ did elicit quite a few chuckles from me.

Anyone who’s worked in a cubicle can probably fid some paralels between this movie and their own lives (I know I did, even though was never actually cubicled). Some of the situations seem so universal that it’s easy to identify with them and laugh at the ridiculousness of the work world.

…well, it’s better to poke fun at our frustrations than to stress over them, right?

And that’s pretty much what this film is about: putting a giant spotlight on the nasty zits of the workplace and staring at them so closely until they become nothing more than a collection of strange, hilarious blurs.

For the record, it isn’t as dark as the British version of ‘The Office’ was. ‘Office Space’ instead eschews the painful fingering of open wounds and offers a detached cynicism about things that seem out of our control. While its solutions (hypnotism, fraud, arson, …etc.), like those of ‘Fight Club’, are impractical in the “real” world, it takes the viewer’s sense of hopelessness and gives it a vehicle in which to run rampant on the sidewalks of life.

That’s good enough. After all, what more can one expect from escapist entertainment?

‘Office Space’, while it does offer a valid point of view behind all the madness, is exactly that: escapist. And, while it also forces the viewers to face the prisons of their daily grind, it does a great job of providing a good, if not great, escape.