Just what I expected

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

The first must-see film of the year.

The acting in this movie is really good.

This movie for the most part got pretty negative reviews, but watching it nowadays it's actually a pretty fun little movie to watch. It is a very 90s movie, the style, the characters, the music, it is a nice time capsule of an era.So the real treat of this movie is the roaches, the musical numbers they do I think are hilarious! and the stop motion animation is pretty cool, in an age where everything is made with CGI watching something like Joe's Apartment really is a treat.The script and story line are a bit weak I'll give it that, but if you just want to laugh at something that is kind of weird and funny, Joe's Apartment is a good way to burn an evening.

I cannot begin to express my disdain and hatred for this film. I think I actually got dumber from having seen it...This is honestly one of THE worst films I have ever had the discomfort of sitting through. I made myself watch the entire thing because it wouldn't be right to put down a film I hadn't fully given a chance to. It was almost painful folks.It's disgusting, it's not funny, it's poorly acted, it's poorly written, it's beyond ridiculous and to make it even worse - they added musical numbers!!!!! I mean, how on earth could this film have gotten ANY worse? (oh right, see musical numbers) It is so wrong on pretty much every level and I, for one, am surprised Jerry O'Connell even shows his face in Hollywood after this disaster. (for crying out loud, Kangaroo Jack is 10 times better than this piece of refuse)Save your brain cells, skip this one. (and yes, it WAS "that bad"!)

This film is undeniable proof that shorts, especially MTV created ones, cannot make a good film. "Joe's Apartment" runs out of ideas before the halfway point. The Character Joe rents out an apartment, occupied by acres of cockroaches, who sing and dance and give Joe unwanted company. OK, we get it already.So how does a film revolving around annoying little roaches extend to 90 minutes? By adding in that predictable subplot involving the hard-to-get love interest for Joe of course, who the viewers automatically know will end up together by the end of the movie. Haven't we seen this predictable boy-gets-girl plot in countless other films? Well, not with singing and dancing roaches. I'll give it that.Joe somewhat befriends the roaches, even they are annoying and give him grief. Consider a scene where Joe brings a date to his apartment. The roaches hide, and the date suspects nothing. Soon after, when things look as if they're going well for Joe, the roaches fall out of the chandelier and fall all over Joe's date. Soon after, roaches everywhere, terrifying the girl. Joe tells her it's OK, but what woman is going to listen to that? So what does Joe do? He may start off as mad, but he always forgives them. This angers me. These are vindictive, controlling, and annoying roaches who, if I was occupied with them, would drive me to a point to get my apartment exterminated. These roaches cause Joe nothing but grief, and torture, and they invade his privacy; yet the film is supposed to make us laugh.When the film reaches its inevitable conclusion, I was so annoyed and disgusted by this time that I couldn't feel any of the euphoria the film was trying to feed its viewers. It didn't work.The film was made my MTV studios and it looks like it should have been a made-for-TV film specifically for MTV. I have not seen the short on which this was based, but I assume it was funnier that this film - it would rely on the roaches singing and dancing routine(s), without the subplots that a full length film has to have to reach its 90 minutes, which just made the cockroaches grow annoying, crude, mean, and tiresome.

Joe has graduated from college and is moving from Iowa to New York City. He actually believes he can find a decent apartment and a good job, but the apartments that rent for $1000 a month are not fit to live in. Fortunately, he meets Walter, an artist, whose latest project is to lie on the street in a pool of blood and see who notices. For two days, only Joe does. Walter tells Joe about rent control, and Joe is lucky enough to be there when the resident of one rent-control apartment dies. But the apartment Joe finds is no prize either, even though he can afford it. Hundreds or even thousands of roaches live there. Talking roaches. And the building is the last one left in an area where Senator Dougherty wants to build a federal prison. Only Joe is left in his building, and he is harassed to the point where most people would move out. The roaches encourage Joe to stand his ground and even help him out.When Joe calls 911, the call is answered by Dougherty's frustrated daughter Lily, who has taken charge of a community garden in Joe's neighborhood and wants her father to leave things as they are. Lily doesn't like her paying job because all she can do is put people on hold; there's no one to switch them to (I did like the nice music that was played).If you don't like 'Fear Factor', this movie might not be for you. But the roaches were so cute I wasn't really disgusted (even by their slightly off-color language). And they were quite talented. I liked most of their songs, which tended to be older music styles. They even did dance routines, including an Esther Williams style performance in a toilet.This movie was very funny at times. Some of the humor tended toward the demented, but I still enjoyed it.