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| Joe's Apartment | 
 enlarge | Director: John Payson
Actors: Jerry O'connell, Megan Ward, Billy West (ii), Reginald Hudlin, Jim Turner
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
List Price: $9.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  41 reviews
Sales Rank: 7793
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Full Screen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 80
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 1
Picture Format: Pan & Scan
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.6 x 0.6
MPN: D14042D
ISBN: 0790739941
UPC: 085391404224
EAN: 9780790739946
ASIN: 6305308888
Theatrical Release Date: July 26, 1996
Release Date: March 30, 1999
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Ships first class from New York City. All items are official products. We have a positive feedback rating of 96% - buy with confidence!
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Just what the world needs: an all-musical roach revue. What worked as an MTV short film does not work as a feature-length movie. Intelligent cockroaches with lives of their own may seem outre and amusing on the small screen, but are disgusting and eventually boring when we have to spend 80 long minutes with them. Scruffy Jerry O'Connell is the Iowa farm boy who moves to the Big Apple and rents a filthy, bug-infested flat. Turns out those bugs are his only friends. Also turns out that the animated vermin are a whole lot more interesting than the human cast. This is just silly and gross enough for adolescent boys, or those with adolescent tastes. --Rochelle O'Gorman
Description
Fresh off the bus from iowa, Joe (Jerry O'Connell) is just trying to make it in New York, but he's got no job, no girl and no place to live. But life changes for Joe as he finds an apartment, along with 50,000 singing, dancing roach roommates who teach
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"Joe's Apartment" Teaches Us That True Friends Come In All Shapes and Sizes May 6, 2008
Only MTV could make cockroaches appear lovable and endearing. "Joe's Apartment" is an adult version of such Walt Disney cartoons as "Finding Nemo" and "The Little Mermaid." I always thought of fish, lobsters, shrimp, etc., as disgusting and repugnant but Walt Disney turned them into warmhearted characters.
Stud muffin, Jerry O'Connell, is Joe. O'Connell convinced me that he could successfully act in a comedy as well as in horror ("Scream 2") and science fiction (television series "Sliders"). He is an extremely versatile actor.
The animation in "Joe's Apartment" is realistic. The cockroaches are very disgusting. However, I soon learned to overlook their appearance. Unfortunately, my girlfriend couldn't. We had to turn off the television and play Yahtzee. I later resumed watching the movie alone at my own apartment.
I wonder if MTV knows that they actually produced a family movie that teaches good moral values. The foremost that comes to my mind is that you should never judge someone (or something) by their appearance. True beauty comes from within. The cockroaches try to help Joe but cause him to lose his girlfriend and one job after another. In the end, however, they come through for him.
In the movie "Ben," wasn't it a little boy who befriended a rat named Ben? Though rats appear disgusting to many people, I found myself cheering for them during "Ben" and was very saddened whenever one of them was destroyed.
I had a cockroach problem myself. The little buggers were hard to get rid of. Later on, I wrote an award winning humorous speech for Toastmasters; it was about myself befriending a large cockroach named "Ben." A coworker learned about my speech and loaned me a copy of "Joe's Apartment." By the way, my name is also "Joe."
I thoroughly enjoyed "Joe's Apartment" and highly recommend it. I believe it is clean enough for the entire family, at least family members who are thirteen or older. It will one day be a true classic.
I LOVE the ROACHES in this film!!!!!!!! November 13, 2007
The ROACHES are so cute;they dance;they sing;they help the guy get the girl and save the apartment building from the evil,evil developer;they have a kitty-cat rodeo.
The rest of the movie sucks;but the ROACHES are cute!!!
I never thought I would ever say that about ROACHES!!!!!
Joe's apartment August 8, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I saw this movies years ago & just wanted to laugh again at the obsurdity of it all. If you want a good silly laugh, then buy it, rent it, steal it just watch it!!
a blast from the past May 9, 2007
i really forgot just how much i loved this movie, this was MTV's first movie and they did a very great job in creating this! this was a cult classic movie, and one i really had to add to my collection!
 excellent April 2, 2007
From back when Mtv was till about the music and sick humor! LOved it then and now.
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