guisreis Very funny and smart dark comedy. Ignore the ridiculous awful bad rating inexplicably given by IMDb users. Unless you have a dire katsaridaphobia (uncontrollable fear of cockroaches), watch this movie. You will laugh a lot. Jerry O'Connell plays Joe, a guy from Iowa who cannot find a cheap apartment to rent in New York city because of real estate speculation. When he finally succeeds, in the most violent NY neighborhood, he finds out that he lives with Rodney, Ralph... and other dozens of thousands of roaches. They love to live with Joe because he is not the cleanest guy in town, to say the least. There are many musical scenes, yucky scenes, and yucky musical scenes. Anyway, problems related to coexistence and conflicts of interest will arrive, especially after Joe knows his love interest. Bugs are not something particularly romantic, you know... Though, that unconventional friendship among species will prevail. In conclusion, I'd like to tell Brazilian fellows: "Este filme é o maior barato!" ("This film is very nice!"; "barato" is an old-fashioned slang that means "nice", but "barata" means "cockroach" in Portuguese).

Steve Pulaski I went into Joe's Apartment I was expecting a crappy film, not going to lie. It was lampooned by critics, and is the first of it's kind as it's the first film by MTV. I saw bits and pieces of this flick when I was around eight years old with my dad, and thought it was a horror film. Thousands of cockroaches and their scratchy voices running around a ceiling kicking two guy's asses sounds like a Horror film. I was surprised to find out it was a comedy film by none other than MTV. After all, this was all when I was eight.Like I stated, I went into this expecting a horrible film. It looked like a cheesy MTV film that lacked talent and humor. I was totally wrong. This film is now on the list of favorite MTV films. I always complain in my other reviews that movies have lost creativity and idea in recent years, I think I got what I asked for. Singing cockroaches? Haven't seen that done before! Joe (O'Connell) is a College grad who is having a hard time after moving to New York City. He can't find a place or a job to manage. After posing as a recently dead elderly women's son, he is able to get her Apartment at very cheap. Little does he know the podunk joint is home to over 5,000 singing and talking cockroaches.Joe must now cope with the roaches irrational behavior, as well as trying to score big with a local, garden nut named Lily (Ward). But there isn't a huge market for women who dig jobless men who have a home infested with thousands of cockroaches last I checked. I could be wrong though.I have seen the original short that this film is based on, and I hate cockroaches. Though seeing cheesy beta versions of themselves somehow made me tolerate them for 80 minutes. Plus Jerry O'Connell's likable persona was something that flowed nicely throughout the film.Joe's Apartment crosses the line of disgusting and becomes utterly filled with gross out humor and repulsive scenery of Joe's apartment. But it's a fun, creative movie that dares to go where no film has gone before. A disgusting slacker's apartment. Sure it seen briefly in films like Bio-Dome and Chairman of the Board, but to my recollection, I don't think a film has restricted it's boundaries to just a person's apartment. Gives me an idea for my fourth short film.Starring: Jerry O'Connell, Megan Ward, Billy West, Robert Vaughn, Reginald Hudlin, Jim Turner, and Don Ho. Directed by: John Payson.

TaK K This movie was a different one. But in every way possible was entertaining. I would give this a 6/10 at the least because it was a very different kind of story, but the acting for some characters could have been better, in my opinion. This is a great film for a more mature audiences simply because of its sexual humor and harsh language, which there is a lot of. But none the less, this was a fantastic movie, with a bunch of slap-stick humor, so anyone who loves this kind of humor should definitely watch. Also if your going to watch this film, be ready for some weird scenes and musical parts, because that is kind of what this movie is mostly put of. But overall, if your in the mood for a great slap-stick humor film, go watch Joe's Apartment.

kurciasbezdalas I've seen this many years ago when it just came out and now decided to watch it again. I remember it was pretty funny but then I was maybe 7 years old so now I was expecting this film to be stupid. I was surprised how clever this film was. The humor was sometimes stupid but in a good way. It also was kinda original humor sometimes. Jerry O'Connell played a naive new arrival to New York very well. It was so funny when I first saw his naive physiognomy just before he got robed. Jerry O'Connell is a really good comical actor. I also liked that Walter Sh!t character (played by Jim Turner), actually he was the reason why this comedy appeared original to me. It's also a half musical so there were few songs performed by Cockroaches, it was pretty clever made.