| | Joe's Apartment DVD (6 Customer Reviews)
| Category | Warner Store DVDs, Warner Value DVD Movies, Comedies Videos, Romance, Recommended, Friends, Big City, Bugs, Lowlife | | Starring | Jerry O'Connell, Robert Vaughn, Megan Ward | | Director | John Payson |
This 80 minute PG-13 rated Dolby Digital feature film DVD s tars Jerry O'Connell. It has sound in English & French & fe atures scene access. 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 aquatic ballets in the toilet! As Joe grows accustomed to his antennaed roommates, he finds that they come in handy as he tries to woo Lily -- whose dastardly father wishes to decimate Joe's building. If Joe wins Lily's heart, it might help dissuade her dad from his plans. Because if the building is destroyed, those roaches will need a new home -- like yours.... A young Iowan moves to New York City and inherits a huge group of friends--the thousands of cockroaches who inhabit his apartment. From helping him with his fledgling attempts at romance and annoying his very deserving landlord, these six-legged roomies are livin' large. Based on the 1992 MTV short. Hilarious. See "Twilight of the Cockroaches" for a different treatment of the same story. Released theatrically in the USA July 26, 1996.
Co-produced by Geffen Pictures and MTV Productions.
This is the first theatrical feature film from MTV.
Additional cast: Jim Sterling (Jesus) and Sandra Denton (Blank).
Additional credits: Kevin Weist (composer: roach songs), Michael Turoff (visual effects supervisor), Chris Wedge (computer-generated animation) and Ray Mendez (roach wrangler).
The genesis of this film is an award-winning 1992 MTV short film, also called "Joe's Apartment" and directed by John Payson.
Not all of the roaches in the film are real. Some were computer-generated images.
Copyright 1996 Geffen Pictures. Joe's Apartment Reviews: "...The visuals are creepy, crawly fun..."
-- Peter Travers, Rolling Stone "...Clever....If only the roaches in my apartment were as entertaining..." -- Rating: B+
-- Erin Richter, Entertainment Weekly "...Created with computer wizardry, TOY STORY-style....Remarkably realistic results..."
-- Andy Seiler, USA Today
This is the only John Payson video. Joe's Apartment | List Price | $9.97 (You save $3.68) | | Studio | Warner Home Video | | Orig Year | 1996 | | DVD Encoding | Region 1 | | All Time Sales Rank |  3081  | | CD Universe Part number | 1262392 | | Catalog number | 14042 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Mar 30, 1999 | | Rating | PG-13 (MPAA) | | Running Time | 82 Minutes | | Movie Details | Color; Dolby Surround Sound; Digital Sound; Stereo Sound |
Joe's Apartment Movie Review Average Rating: (4.5 out of 5 stars)   List All Reviews Neat Bug Fun
This is a great movie. My kids love it. Cool music and FX, cutie-pie Jerry O'Connell - what more do you want?
Submitted by a reviewer (Carmel, CA) 
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 Now I think cockroaches are a good thing...
When this movie first debuted, I was one of those people who thought that I would never watch it, let alone enjoy countless hours of viewing it continuously. I mean come on, a movie about ROACHES!!! Now after being tricked into watching it, I can’t remember why I event thought I would hate it. Of course the plot is a little dense but the wisecracking, churchgoing las cucarachas make up for that.
Submitted by annja1975 (Maryville, TN, USA)
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Laugh out loud funny!
The whole family really enjoyed this very funny, very silly movie however do be careful as there is a little 'colourful' language from time to time, you may want to watch before you let the younger rugrats see it.
The story is about Joe, his apartment and several hundred talking cockroaches! They don't just talk they sing, dance and generally mess up Joe's lovelife.
Joe's apartment had us all in stitches, it took much longer to watch the film than it should have as we constantly skipped back to watch the funniest bits over and over again.
If you like Dumb & Dumber, Airplane, Hot Shots Part Deux and those type of films then you'll LOVE this movie.... HIGHLY recommended.
Submitted by karenstuart34 (Manchester, United Kingdom)
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This film was absolutely brilliant, definately a MTV production. Delivery was prompt well worth doing business with.
Hail the Cockroachs!!!
Submitted by a reviewer (Hampshire, UK)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No Laugh untill you cry
This is a really great movie extreamly watchable by most of the family check it out before letting youngsters watch but 13 - 130 will enjoy it, the cockroaches steal the film with line dancing, water ballet's etc they have their own personalities!!! First time I watched this I was with my mother and my daughter then 12 we could not stop crying with laughter, you are on Joes side from the start to the end no boaring bits at all Fantastic film always cheers you up and teaches you to look on the bright side of life
Submitted by Properikklemadam (Lowestoft, Suffolk, England)
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Joe's Apartment DVD Region 1
Snap Case
Full Frame -
1.33
Audio:
Dolby Digital Surround - English
Dolby Digital Surround - French
Interactive Features:
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