| Actors:
| Jerry O'Connell, Megan Ward, Billy West (II), Reginald Hudlin, Jim Turner | | Format:
| Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC | | Language:
| English, French | | Subtitle:
| English | | Number of Discs:
| 1 | | Studio:
| Warner Home Video | | Run Time:
| 80 minutes | | DVD Release Date:
| March 30, 1999 | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 57 reviews |
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15 of 16 found the following review helpful:
 FUNKY ROACHES !Nov 28, 2001
By Alexander S. Meyer
Anyone who disses this movie is incapable of understanding slapstick taken to the max. Even before seeing this DVD, I was laughing at the photo on the box...just the thought of making a roach movie is funny! GOOD slapstick IS ridiculous, but also FUNNY!If you are squeamish, then forget this film. The roaches are realistic & well animated..then again, the hilarious roach dialogue almost makes them likeable! This film is truly the "king" of critter comedies..move over Babe, Air Bud,and Benji......Rodney Roach & friends have come to infest your space! While the script may be a little anemic, frequent roach appearances and musical numbers keep it moving along nicely. However, there are some funny moments where our nice guy human subject just can't get a break! There is absolutely no other film quite like "Joes Apartment"...I congratulate MTV and Geffen Pictures for having the "cojones" to commit to such a project. This film deserved a much bigger audience at the theatre, but hey, you can have these roaches IN YOUR HOUSE for very little money..It's a riot!
7 of 7 found the following review helpful:
A hilarious over-the-top spoof! Not for mainstreamers...Dec 29, 1999
By Margaret Fiore
While not deathless art, this IS a fabulous, one-of-a-kind, superlatively silly flick. Joe is a superbly naive and earnest corn-fed Iowa hunk with absolutely no clue of personal hygiene. When he moves into a roach-infested New York apartment (is that redundant?), his fellow tenants - the roaches - are overjoyed. The acting/direction is excellent, and the whimsical music is extremely enjoyable. Of course, if you have an insect phobia, the screens full of roaches, dancing and otherwise, just may make your skin crawl! It did mine! But this is still a very funny and well-made wacky little film.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
Jerry's best movie!!Aug 11, 1999
This is my favorite movie of all time! It's humorous look at New York city is hilarious. The animated cockroaches are fun to watch singing and dancing! (Funky towel!) And, of coarse, Jerry O'Connell, whom is my favorite. MTV did great making it's first movie here. My only complaint was that there was no sountrack made! ???? Watch it!!!! Ralph and Rodney will thank you.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
Joe's Apartment is an inane but highly humorous comedy!Dec 13, 1998
MTV was very clever to think up a movie that contains quite a few musical numbers performed by cockroaches! I think the movie was funny, stupid, and a little bit romantic. This is the best combination for a movie. I thoroughly enjoyed viewing this movie.
5 of 6 found the following review helpful:
 The short version was betterNov 19, 2005
By Andrew Furst
Sometimes less is more. The original "Joe's Apartment" 15 minute short (by the same filmmaker who did this version) was very engaging in a weird way. In that version, Joe has already befriended the roaches, and the short film is entirely about Joe's date (in which the cockroaches ultimately spill onto the woman). Most of the short version is actually reprised in this longer version. But the extensions here are hugely disappointing, and take away from the feel of the original film. There's now a huge focus on the violence in New York City; somehow we're supposed to find most if not all the violence to be "funny" (violence is not funny, IMO). Joe is shown here to be a slob who embraces filth, while that was not (from what I recall) part of the original - there he was just a normal guy who had somehow befriended the roaches. In this version Joe tries to kill the roaches and vice-versa, while that was not the "feel" of the original. And this version adds a silly plot about a land developer, although the way the roaches deal with "developing" the land themselves (not to give anything away) is cleverly done.
All in all, at this price there are some moments, but overall the fun/friendly feel of the original is somewhat ruined. And it's too bad they didn't include the original short film on this DVD, there certainly was room for it. Possibly they didn't include it since much of the original short was reproduced in the long version, but it's also possible that if they included the original, people would notice that the long version doesn't compare favorably. I give the original short at least 4 and more likely 5 stars (for what it was: a very clever, short film), but with these extensions I give the long version only two stars. In this case, less most definitely was more.
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