'Less is more' is the lesson Hollywood often fails to learn.
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05/15/03
Joe's Apartment (1996)
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Reviews Counted:25
Fresh:3
Rotten:22
Average Rating:3.7/10
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Reviews for Joe's Apartment
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.
01/01/00
Top Critic[A] harmless no-brainer.
01/01/00
Very puerile humour and a pretty lame storyline.
07/19/06
The insects have obnoxious, piping little voices and sound like the Chipmunks had inhaled helium.
01/01/00
Top CriticIt's nicely realised, by human and roach alike, and something of a landmark in cinematic grossness.
05/12/08
There are some amusing bits -- but most of the jokes are cheap, easy and tend to fall flat.
01/01/00
One of the cutest movies I've ever seen.
01/01/00
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.
05/12/08
Top CriticSome viewers will still want to reach for the Raid.
05/20/03
Top CriticThe use of animatronic puppet and live-action cockroaches is wonderfully clever. It's just too bad the rest of Payson's film wasn't as entertaining.
01/01/00
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.
02/14/01
Top CriticIf 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.
05/12/08
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01/01/00
Good shorts don't make good features...
05/23/06
A MTV-style creepy coachroach comedy that tries to be too cute for its own good. My kingdom for a can of Raid!
06/03/03
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