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Joe's Apartment

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Joe's Apartment (1996)

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Reviews Counted: 25

Fresh: 3

Rotten:22

Average Rating: 3.7/10

Runtime: 82 mins

Genre: Comedies

Synopsis: If a nice young man named Joe invites you to his pad on the Lower East Side, do yourself a favor and decline his offer. Why? Because Joe shares his seedy-to-the-max apartment with literally... If a nice young man named Joe invites you to his pad on the Lower East Side, do yourself a favor and decline his offer. Why? Because Joe shares his seedy-to-the-max apartment with literally thousands of wisecracking cockroaches, who sing gospel hymns, warble country tunes, and even perform aquatic ballets in the toilet! As Joe grows accustomed to his antennaed roommates, he finds that they come in handy as he tries to woo Lily -- whose dastardly father wishes to decimate Joe's building. If Joe wins Lily's heart, it might help dissuade her dad from his plans. Because if the building is destroyed, those roaches will need a new home -- like yours.... [More]

Starring: Jerry O'Connell, Megan Ward, Robert Vaughn

Starring: Jerry O'Connell, Megan Ward, Robert Vaughn

Director: John Payson

Director: John Payson

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Mar 30, 1999

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It's nicely realised, by human and roach alike, and something of a landmark in cinematic grossness.

Full Review Source: Channel 4 Film | comment Comment
05/12/08
Daniel Etherington
Channel 4 Film

If it were even half as clever as the promotional web site -- which features such inventions as ROL, a parody of online service AOL -- it would be a small delight. But it's not.

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05/12/08
TV Guide's Movie Guide

Unfortunately, nothing that any of the humans contribute to Joe's Apartment is nearly as interesting as the musical numbers and comedy riffs of the cockroaches.

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05/12/08
Joe Leydon
Variety
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Very puerile humour and a pretty lame storyline.

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07/19/06
Nick De Semlyen
Empire Magazine

Good shorts don't make good features...

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05/23/06
Michael Ferraro
Film Threat

No review available.

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07/29/05
Chuck O'Leary
Fantastica Daily

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07/21/05
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com

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01/29/04
Spence D.
IGN Movies

A MTV-style creepy coachroach comedy that tries to be too cute for its own good. My kingdom for a can of Raid!

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06/03/03
Frank Ochieng
TheWorldJournal.com

Some viewers will still want to reach for the Raid.

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05/20/03
Janet Maslin
New York Times
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'Less is more' is the lesson Hollywood often fails to learn.

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05/15/03
Dragan Antulov
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No review available.

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02/06/03
Tony Toscano
Talking Pictures (U.S.)

There are some isolated moments in this film that woudl make great shorts. Strung together with the rest of it, though, they just make a mess.

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10/24/02
Luke Y. Thompson
New Times

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10/21/02
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Quite disgusting really

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09/17/02
Clint Morris
Moviehole

John Payson's Joe's Apartment may well have been a funny MTV short, but stretched to feature length it's got to be the most putrid picture since The Garbage Pail Kids Movie nearly a decade ago.

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02/14/01
Kevin Thomas
Los Angeles Times
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So much up-to- the-minute technology hasn't been used for so disastrous a product since the Hindenburg.

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01/01/00
Andy Seiler
USA Today
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There are some amusing bits -- but most of the jokes are cheap, easy and tend to fall flat.

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01/01/00
Chris Hicks
Deseret News, Salt Lake City

[A] harmless no-brainer.

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01/01/00
David N. Butterworth
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There's not enough story here for something half that length, so we're subjected to numerous pointless and irritating song-and-dance numbers designed to nudge the lame plot towards its conclusion.

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01/01/00
James Berardinelli
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