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14. Tangy
Dont get me wrong I love Office Space, but dear god did they botch the final act of this. The jokes are fantastic, its a perfect reflection of all kinds of toxic work environments and all the characters manage to strike a balance between fun and realistic. So my question is why did they turn Peter into a complete asshole out of nowhere? All of his motives were pretty justifiable and the embezzling scheme wasnt even really his idea to begin with. So I dont know why all of a sudden hes getting all paranoid and everyone starts shunning him. Dont get me wrong theres definitely potential for a story about how promotions can corrupt your ideals (more on this in Sorry to Bother You), but this wasnt the movie for it. Or at least with how it was set up. To be fair I really dont have too many ideas on how to fix it, but the comedy is honestly funny enough that the typical 3 act structure couldve been skipped entirely and this movie wouldve been a blast to watch.

Biggest Laugh: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jq6e8s1sik

15. John
Milton is by far the best part about the movie, which I'm sure isn't a particularly unpopular opinion, but Stephen Root is just too good. Really all the cast is pretty great, though it admittedly falls into the trap of the main character being the most boring person on the cast. The humor of the movie kind of comes and goes in waves, but the highs are just downright hilarious. While its core plot doesn't really do a lot to distinguish it from the average "lazy guy going about life" comedies that were everywhere around the early 2000s, it's the little things that make it so easy to see why this movie became such a cult hit.

17. Forty
"I Did Absolutely Nothing, And It Was Everything I Thought It Could Be!" I knew right off the bat that Office Space would be great. Not just because it was Mike Judge, creator of my beloved Beavis and Butthead, but the opening scene is so relatable. From time to time, Ive been the nerdy looking white guy stuck in traffic blasting gangster rap. The relatability continues throughout for anyone thats had a job that feels like its sucking the life out of you. With the proliferation of quiet quitting nowadays, its more relevant than ever. Its as if Judge has an uncanny way of predicting the future, as he did later with Idiocracy. The characters dont get a whole lot of depth and theyre pretty much caricatures (the dream girl, the inept co-worker, the heartless boss) but that doesnt matter because they fit within the context of the movie. The ending isnt great but the journey getting there is terrific and for me its the cultyist of cult classics.

18. Karo
An unhappy office drone has an epiphany when his hypnotherapist dies of a heart attack, and decides to basically not do his job. Like at all. He is then considered as a candidate for corporate management as a result. Ha ha.
It does a good nob of satirizing white collar office work, but it doesnt seem like there is a whole lot of story to go around and it ends up having to rely on random plot points like the cyber heist to fill out a feature length runtime. I feel it would have made a much better TV series in the vein of Mike Judge's most famous work.
Also, there was some uncomfortable mocking of disabled people that seemed really not cool. Although it is true the character in question did get to have the last laugh, I pretty much got ready to cringe every time I saw him appear on camera.