A nice guy has just moved to New York and discovers that he must share his run-down apartment with a couple thousand singing, dancing cockroaches.A nice guy has just moved to New York and discovers that he must share his run-down apartment with a couple thousand singing, dancing cockroaches.A nice guy has just moved to New York and discovers that he must share his run-down apartment with a couple thousand singing, dancing cockroaches.
- Awards
- 2 wins total
Billy West
- Ralph Roach
- (voice)
Reginald Hudlin
- Rodney Roach
- (voice)
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We happened to notice this on the TV in the video store one evening, and decided we had to have it. Unfortunately for the poor shop assistant, she was in the middle of watching it and had to take it out of the VCR to rent it to us.
Turned out to be a great choice, even though I hate cockroaches! A marvelously silly, feel-good film. Yes, of course it has a standard plot-by-numbers plot-line, but it's rare to find a film that doesn't these days.
What's even better is that the shops think it is a bad film, so the DVD is very cheap. Go out and buy one!
Turned out to be a great choice, even though I hate cockroaches! A marvelously silly, feel-good film. Yes, of course it has a standard plot-by-numbers plot-line, but it's rare to find a film that doesn't these days.
What's even better is that the shops think it is a bad film, so the DVD is very cheap. Go out and buy one!
Decided to pick a film I'd never heard of- this turned out to be very funny especially the songs of the cockroaches. Connolly plays a down on his luck character well and the scene at the 911 operations is hilarious-- even my son was laughing along with me. Whoever designed the set deserves credit for their creativity.. a funny film that deserved more credit than it got.
This movie is pretty funny. What it lacks in intelligence, it makes up for in fun.
Joe(O'Connell)has just to New York City and into his first apartment. The only problem: it's infested with thousands of talking cockroaches. They all seem to be a pain in Joe's butt, but the roaches come in more useful for him than he thought.
This movie is no classic, of course I don't think any of MTV's movies will be considered classics. But they are really funny(also see Beavis and Butt-Head Do America and Dead Man On Campus).
It's a hilarious and fun little flick, even for people who don't like bugs. 8/10
Joe(O'Connell)has just to New York City and into his first apartment. The only problem: it's infested with thousands of talking cockroaches. They all seem to be a pain in Joe's butt, but the roaches come in more useful for him than he thought.
This movie is no classic, of course I don't think any of MTV's movies will be considered classics. But they are really funny(also see Beavis and Butt-Head Do America and Dead Man On Campus).
It's a hilarious and fun little flick, even for people who don't like bugs. 8/10
This movie was blasted by every critic in the media, but I think they were all way off base. Was there anything plausible about it? No. Was there anything funny about it? YES! I never got a chance to see it in the theatre, but when I rented it on VHS, I couldn't stop laughing. Of course, I saw it alone at the time, so I thought that perhaps there was something wrong with me. Then my brother rented it, and the rest of my family saw it, and we all laughed, and I realized something I should've known earlier, that this was funny, and I shouldn't be ashamed to think that way...and neither should YOU!
I had never heard of this movie before my 16 year-old son rented the video. It is hilarious. Think of "Babe" as produced by the Marx Brothers, using singing cockroaches instead of mice . Evidently the critics didn't like it much, and I can see how they might not see it as high art, but as entertainment and an enjoyable time in fantasy land, it right up there with the best of them, in my opinion.
Did you know
- TriviaThe CGI roach scenes were filmed using the same graphics effects engine from Terminator 2 : Le Jugement dernier (1991) and Jurassic Park (1993).
- GoofsWhen Joe and Lily are sitting on his couch after their first date, the position of his arm changes from lowered to around her shoulder between shots.
- Quotes
[Joe finds a man lying in a pool of blood]
Joe: Oh, my god! Mister, are you alright?
Walter Shit: Two days, seven hours, twenty-three minutes and four seconds. That's how long I've been lying here.
Joe: Are you O.K.?
Walter Shit: 'Course not! I'm an artist!
- Crazy creditsAfter the end credits, the cockroaches come together and form the MTV logo, then they crawl away.
- Alternate versionsWhen Joe's Apartment was aired on network television, the name of the band that Joe became involved with was changed from "SHIT" to "POO"
- SoundtracksJoe's Apartment Theme
Written by Kevin Weist & John Payson
Performed by Mel Tormé & the Roach Chorus
Courtesy of Concord Records
- How long is Joe's Apartment?Powered by Alexa
Details
Box office
- Budget
- $13,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $4,619,014
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $1,854,490
- Jul 28, 1996
- Gross worldwide
- $4,619,014
- Runtime
- 1h 20m(80 min)
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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