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Joe's Apartment | Year: 1996 Classification: Comedy Directed: - John Payson Actors/Actresses: - Griffin Dunne - Robert Vaughn - Tim Blake Nelson - Jerry O'Connell Musical Roaches ... Personaly, I love it, simply for the "Funky Towel" musical number. I mean, you can not go wrong with a bunch of talking and singing roaches singing about a nasty, funky towel. I have this DVD and I've prly wron it out from so much use it's not even funny anymore. It was funny as a quick MTV sketch, it was even funnier as a movie, simply beacuse it allowed more opertunity to see jsut how crazy, funky and totaly lovable a bunch of seemingly indestructible (anyone who's ever had a roach problem will vouch for that. Their like superman only not so evolved. you can damn near nuke them and they'll jsut sit there like nothing happened) bugs can be if they could talk, dance and sing. The plot of the movie is lacking, true, but I watch simply for the music and the comments the roaches make. What else do you need? Have you kissed your roach today? Is it possible that people exist who are so myopic, so unable to think outside their own sanitized box, that they fail to see and feel the charm of this movie? Of course, I agree that roaches are most appreciated by humans when seen on the bottom side of a shoe, schmooshed. The movie isn't trying to make you boycott Raid. [But, as the film points out, these hardy little creatures will probably be around a lot longer than our own immune 'defested' species.] A plot in this film would have just been distracting. There is no philosophy being preached here, no deep meaning, no overt or covert agendas. Just fun! The movie is great on many counts. Hear are just a few examples: The film turns traditional values upside-down in a hilarious way, without being pedantic. The film isn't as serious as a Sondheim lyric, as popular as a Lloyd-Weber musical, as beautiful as a Les Miserable melody. But it doesn't try to be. And it doesn't need to be. It allows the viewer to, for perhaps a too brief period, forget about his or her confining values and exhausting proprieties, and just be entertained. After an escape like this film, we may indeed return to our severe or drab realities refreshed, much like a good night's sleep can make one more alert the next morning. ... I believe that entertainment like this, in appropriate doses, could be just what the world does need.... A sequel, please!!! You don't have to be a teenage boy to love this thing. Buy Joe's Apartment at Amazon.com Buy posters at Allposters.com Jamster - the latest ringtones for your phone!  Search with Walhello on the Internet on Joe's Apartment Search with the Priority Search Engine on Joe's Apartment This page in other languages: Suomeksi | Nederlands | Deutsch
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