It's nicely realised, by human and roach alike, and something of a landmark in cinematic grossness.
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05/12/08
Joe's Apartment (1996)
12 %
Reviews Counted: 25 Fresh: 3 Rotten:22 Average Rating: 3.7/10
Runtime: 82 mins
Synopsis: If a nice young man named Joe invites you to his pad on the Lower East Side, do yourself a favor and decline his offer. Why? Because Joe shares his seedy-to-the-max apartment with literally thousands of wisecracking cockroaches, who sing gospel hymns, warble country tunes, and even perform... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Jerry O'Connell, Megan Ward, Robert Vaughn
Director: John Payson
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If 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
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
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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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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
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There are some amusing bits -- but most of the jokes are cheap, easy and tend to fall flat.
01/01/00
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
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