Not "Office Space," where Peter says he thinks he's heard of that before, and Michael says, "Yeah, they did it in `Superman III.' Also, a bunch of hackers tried it in the '70s. Hey, you're thinking-that's not original! A dumb movie would pretend it was. He has a software program that would round off payments to the next-lowest penny and deposit the proceeds in their checking account. Consider, for example, Michael Bolton's plan for revenge against the company. It doesn't just chug along making plot points. She's required to wear a minimum of 15 funny buttons on the suspenders of her uniform the buttons are called "flair" in company lingo, and her manager suggests that wearing only the minimum flair suggests the wrong spirit (another waiter has "45 flairs" and looks like an exhibit at a trivia convention). Her name is Joanna ( Jennifer Aniston) and she has problems with management, too. Peter is in love with the waitress at the chain restaurant across the parking lot. They flee the office for coffee breaks (demonstrating that Starbucks doesn't really sell coffee-it sells escape from the office). No, not that Michael Bolton, Michael patiently explains. ![]() Peter has two friends at work: Michael Bolton ( David Herman) and Samir ( Ajay Naidu). Mike Judge, who gained fame through MTV's "Beavis and Butt-Head," and made the droll animated film " Beavis and Butt-Head Do America" (1996), has taken his "SNL" Milton cartoons as an inspiration for this live-action comedy, which uses Orwellian satirical techniques to fight the cubicle police: No individual detail of office routine is too absurd to be believed, but together they add up to stark, staring insanity. You may recognize him as the hero of cartoons that played on "Saturday Night Live," where strangers were always arriving to use his cubicle as storage space for cardboard boxes. Milton's cubicle is relocated so many times that eventually it appears to have no entrance or exit he's walled-in on every side. So do all of his co-workers, although one of them, Milton ( Stephen Root), has found refuge through an obsessive defense of his cubicle, his radio and his stapler.
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