“Office Space” is a comedy directed by Mike Judge, who I’ll always fondly remember as the creator of tv’s “King of the Hill” and not “Beavis And Butt-Head”. “King of the Hill” works by creating quality over quantity with its laughs. With “Office Space”, gags hit you a little faster; it still is pretty much the same.

In “Office Space”, bored-out-of-his-mind office cubicle worker Peter Gibbons (Ron Livingston “The Conjuring”) is sick and tired of being a slave to his extremely smarmy boss, Bill Lumbergh (Gary Cole “Pineapple Express”). He decides to team up with his friends to rebel against the company by using a trick to collect all the fractions of pennies that get left, the characters even mention how this happened in “Superman III”.

I have to admit I didn’t think Peter was particularly interesting but then again that’s the whole point. He represents the ordinary and quite frankly boring person that is created via working in such a mundane environment. My favourite characters are computer whiz Michael (David Herman), the poorly treated Milton (Stephen Root “Finding Nemo”) and Tom (Richard Riehle “The Fugitive”), who really serves no use at the company. I dislike the casting of Jennifer Aniston from tv’s “Friends” as she is put in her usual romantic comedy role and that could give people the wrong idea about the film. Mike Judge has a small and average cameo.

My favourite scene is the one where Peter and his buddies absolutely destroy a regularly malfunctioning piece of equipment from the office using a baseball bat. It isn’t quite as sharp as “King of the Hill” (I’m still waiting to see a big screen transition of that show) and I don’t like the overuse of gangster rap but it is definitely an improvement of Judge’s film featuring Beavis and Butt-Head. “Office Space” reminded me of “Clerks” as both are done in the same tone but where that movie failed to go anywhere, this one does; I just wanted more of it.