Brainsbell The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.

Jenna Walter The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

Jonah Abbott There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Portia Hilton Blistering performances.

garthlotel This is arguably one of the greatest satirical movies of all time. It is very clever and sharp, with the perfect mix of characters, comedy and pathos. Not to be missed.

wakaporter Peter is fed up with working at Intech, because at this computer software firm he and his coworkers are all treated as mechanistic parts of a system where profits and standardization take precedence over humanness. People are given cubicle positions that are repetitive and expendable. The executive management, or the bosses, are ordering people to do their seemingly meaningless jobs with a attitude of feigned affection that is offensively passive. This is most obvious in Lundberg's common phrasing of orders, "if you could….that would be great," which has become an internet meme in recent years probably for how obviously annoying a way of communicating it is. The audience strongly understands and sympathizes with Peter and contempt for work in just the first 15 minutes of the film. Through its satirical yet realistic presentation of white collar office life, this movie has made it into a cult classic comedy. However, the film is not just a comedy, more so it is a commentary on the negative effects a white collar work environment has on its employees. Throughout the film there is an obvious theme of escapism, as the urge to escape life's situation is acute for Peter and several other main characters. Such a theme forces us to investigate worklife within a common capitalist mode of production and why it leaves so many people miserable. The fact that this movie is still a cult classic and that so many people find Office Space relatable, shows that its message is relevant. In conclusion, for making me laugh out loud and think deeper about the effects on individuality of service sector employment, I give this movie a solid 8/10.

HotToastyRag For the depressed depressives out there, this movie will become your new best friend. For everyone else, well, it'll be slightly funny the first time you see it, and then every subsequent time your depressed friend makes you watch it with him, you'll cringe and start counting down the minutes until it's over.A man hates his job. His boss is a pain. Tale as old as time, right? The man goes to a hypnotist to help his depression, but he never snaps out of his trance. All of a sudden, he's free to speak his mind! He can stop going to work, talk back to his boss, and ask out that hottie waitress he's been eyeballing all week.This is definitely a guy movie. The premise, the characters, the music, everything about it is geared towards men. The one female character is played by none other than the darling of the 1990s, Jennifer Aniston. Naturally, she stands by her grungy, callous, loafing boyfriend no matter what. I think a better title for this film might have been "Every Man's Fantasy".Kiddy Warning: Obviously, you have control over your own children. However, due to some language and adult themes, I wouldn't let my kids watch it.

oOoBarracuda This film should come with a warning label for anyone that currently holds an office job. One might have a cathartic experience after watching this cult classic inspiring one to leave their job, which will unlikely be able to sustain their livelihood. The 1999 film, Office Space, directed by Mike Judge does that magic like only film can of bringing to life characters that everyone knows. Anyone in a working environment can relate to, or recognize someone on screen from their own life. Starring Ron Livingston and Jennifer Aniston in an exploration of how rarely one feels satisfied in their job, and what we can do to solve the cognitive dissonance of spending so much time at a place we hate, Office Space proves a valuable lesson to audiences everywhere. Peter Gibbons (Ron Livingston) is a low-level office worker responsible for rewriting minute details of code within computer algorithms to prepare for the 2000 switch. Spending his days adding two columns of numbers leaves him feeling unfulfilled in both his work and life. Peter is in a failing relationship, lives in a meager apartment, and sees no light at the end of the tunnel that has become his life. After a round of hypnotherapy, Peter reaches, for the first time in his life, a true state of ecstasy. Peter is able to remove the chains his job holds over him and create the satisfaction he has been longing for. Peter decides that his life should no longer revolve around work, and in divorcing that previous belief, he finds a fulfilling relationship with waitress Joanna (Jennifer Aniston) and has freed up more time for what he has always wanted to do in life, nothing. His changed attitude has been noticed by the upper-level management in his company who has recently been taxed with the responsibility of downsizing, as the millennium switch is nearing completion. What upper-level management has noticed about him is that he in unchallenged in his current role, and is a go-getter that is revolutionary in discovering ways his company can save time. While Peter is promoted within the company, and his two friends, the unfortunately named Michael Bolton (David Herman) and Samir Nagheenanajar (Ajay Naidu) have both been laid off; Milton Waddams (Stephen Root) the ritualistic easy target continuously has his desk moved just for the fun of an overreaching micromanaging boss, Bill Lumbergh (Gary Cole), and wannabe inventor Tom Smykowski (Richard Riehle) attempts suicide because he is so disheartened with the constant worry of being laid off his employment holds over him. Peter's office is full of unhappiness and unfulfillment that spills over into each of the individual's lives outside of work. When Peter shares with his friends that they will be laid off, he develops an idea to implant a virus Michael knows about into the computer systems collecting rounded off cents accrued on interest and putting them into a separate account that the three could have access to. This plot will save the three of them from jobs they hate and allow them to do with their lives what they actually wish to do. After an error, they realizing that they are embezzling a lot more money than they intended to and are now faced with a seemingly certain prison sentence and are aided by Milton in a way no one could have foreseen.Working at an office job in which I spend much downtime, like Peter, and I feel like my soul is sucked out of me little by little on a daily basis, I can more than appreciate the film Office Space. Life is full of expectations and as children, we are encouraged to make as many expectations for our lives as we can. The irony of life, however, is that whatever expectations we set out for ourselves are rarely realized in actuality. The culture, especially in America, is that what you do for work defines who you are, yet, few people identify with the work that they do. Office Space is a prime example of the paradox of living a life that you want. The fact that everyone in the audience knows a Milton, or a Peter, or a Michael Bolten speaks volumes to the fact that what we wish out of our lives is rarely what we achieve. Breaking free from the chains of our working lives is an essential part of truly living. Hopefully, a little bit of the lesson of Peter's ecstasy is one that the audience can inject into their own lives, ceasing to exist solely based on what they do and taking more time for what one truly enjoyes, even if that means doing nothing.