Joe's Apartment: Critic Reviews

75%

MovieWeb: 0 reviews

19%

RottenTomatoes: 26 reviews

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Entertainment Weekly (Top Critic)

75

Full Review » 16 years ago
Janet Maslin New York Times (Top Critic)

40

Some viewers will still want to reach for the Raid.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Andy Seiler USA Today (Top Critic)

25

So much up-to- the-minute technology hasn't been used for so disastrous a product since the Hindenburg.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times (Top Critic)

25

The insects have obnoxious, piping little voices and sound like the Chipmunks had inhaled helium.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Susan Stark Detroit News (Top Critic)

25

Full Review » 12 years ago
Joe Leydon Variety (Top Critic)

Unfortunately, nothing that any of the humans contribute to Joe's Apartment is nearly as interesting as the musical numbers and comedy riffs of the cockroaches.
Full Review » 4 years ago
James Berardinelli ReelViews (Top Critic)

50

There's not enough story here for something half that length, so we're subjected to numerous pointless and irritating song-and-dance numbers designed to nudge the lame plot towards its conclusion.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Kevin Thomas Los Angeles Times (Top Critic)

20

John Payson's Joe's Apartment may well have been a funny MTV short, but stretched to feature length it's got to be the most putrid picture since The Garbage Pail Kids Movie nearly a decade ago.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Daniel Etherington Film4

It's nicely realised, by human and roach alike, and something of a landmark in cinematic grossness.
Full Review » 4 years ago
TV Guide's Movie Guide

25

If it were even half as clever as the promotional web site -- which features such inventions as ROL, a parody of online service AOL -- it would be a small delight. But it's not.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Nick De Semlyen Empire Magazine

20

Very puerile humour and a pretty lame storyline.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Michael Ferraro Film Threat

40

Good shorts don't make good features...
Full Review » 6 years ago
Chuck O'Leary Fantastica Daily

20

Full Review » 7 years ago
Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com

40

Full Review » 7 years ago
Spence D. IGN Movies

60

Full Review » 8 years ago
Frank Ochieng TheWorldJournal.com

40

A MTV-style creepy coachroach comedy that tries to be too cute for its own good. My kingdom for a can of Raid!
Full Review » 9 years ago
Dragan Antulov rec.arts.movies.reviews

20

'Less is more' is the lesson Hollywood often fails to learn.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Tony Toscano Talking Pictures (U.S.)

20

Full Review » 9 years ago
Luke Y. Thompson New Times

40

There are some isolated moments in this film that woudl make great shorts. Strung together with the rest of it, though, they just make a mess.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Philip Martin Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

40

Full Review » 10 years ago
Clint Morris Moviehole

40

Quite disgusting really
Full Review » 10 years ago
Madeleine Williams Cinematter

25

Full Review » 12 years ago
Marc Savlov Austin Chronicle

40

The use of animatronic puppet and live-action cockroaches is wonderfully clever. It's just too bad the rest of Payson's film wasn't as entertaining.
Full Review » 12 years ago
David N. Butterworth rec.arts.movies.reviews

50

A harmless no-brainer.
Full Review » 12 years ago
MaryAnn Johanson Flick Filosopher

One of the cutest movies I've ever seen.
Full Review » 12 years ago