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Joe's Apartment

Started by HappyGilmore, February 20, 2008, 09:42:03 PM

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HappyGilmore

Joe's Apartment is a 1996 comedy starring Jerry O'Connell, Meg Ward and Don Ho, and featuring the voices of Dave Chappelle and Billy West.  About a guy who moves to New York and poses as a deceased lady's son to get her rent-controlled apartment.  What he doesn't know is that the apartment is infested with hundreds of talking, singing cockroaches.

Here's one scene out of the flick:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Nk97Oil2qnc&feature=related

Question: 

If anyone has seen it, would you place it in the bad or good movie section?

I love it and was tempted to put it in the "Good" section.
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GrandMaster

haha i actually picked this up on VHS for a buck the other day. Definetly a bad movie IMO.

clockworkcanary

I remember this; it was originally a skit on Empty-V's Liquid television that they expanded into a full length feature film.  If I remember correctly, the skit was also a scene in the movie where Joe gets a girl up to his apartment but the roaches fall out of the light fixtures onto her or something like that.  That's about all I really remember from the film.
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HappyGilmore

Yeah, the scene where the roaches fall down her shirt in the movie is right after the Funky Towel scene I posted.

I found it hysterical.
"The path to Heaven runs through miles of clouded Hell."

Don't get too close, it's dark inside.
It's where my demons hide, it's where my demons hide.

Captain Tars Tarkas

I think this film is awesome, but I can see why some wouldn't like it.  It is fun, which is the main thing when watching movies that are obviously not meant to be taken seriously.

Ash

I haven't seen this movie in years but remember being aq bit disappointed in it.
The roaches were more annoying than entertaining.
I did like how Joe is from Iowa, though.
(that's where I'm from!)   :smile:

HappyGilmore

I like the fact that Joe steps off the bus in New York, fresh from Iowa, looks up, and immediately gets assaulted.
"The path to Heaven runs through miles of clouded Hell."

Don't get too close, it's dark inside.
It's where my demons hide, it's where my demons hide.

Dave M

I like to think of it as a horrible remake of Twilight of the Cockroaches http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0093101/