Ok, Office Space is good. And very funny. A lot of comedy's rely solely on sexual, 8th grade humor. Office Space seems a little more high brow. The cast makes this movie though. Ron Livingston is great as Peter. He speaks with the same relaxed cadence as Ferris Bueller. No one who's seen either Office Space or Band of Brothers without seeing the other could possibly imagine Livingston in the other role. The guy who plays Milton might as well never play another role. This one is just too perfect. Lumbergh is great, Michael Bolton is great, Samir is great.
This movie is really quotable too. Which is always a bonus. But it's not quotable in the traditional way. This movie is tonally quotable, if that makes any sense. Mumbling like Milton and saying, "Yeah..." like Lumbergh will always be popular. The soundtrack is also so so good. Gangsta rap from the 90s is the opposite of the type of music you'd expect from a movie like this, but it works so well. I really think it even raised the bar to a certain degree for the soundtracks of movies like Pineapple Express, which also employed gangsta rap untraditionally. It all starts in the first scene with Michael Bolton breakin' it down in his car and locking his door and turning down his music when a black homeless guy walks by. But the fax machine destroying scene takes it to a whole new level. "Damn it feels good to be a gangsta."
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