ThedevilChoose
When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.
Bob
This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.
Phillipa
Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.
cathylr
I watched out of curiosity after having finished the complete US version. I read that Ricky Gervais found that the characters in the US version were better defined and I can´t help but agree.
The English version was showing a great potential: it is about everyday life at work, with the appraisals, the foolish attitude that some bosses can have, love stories that can happen, and everyone can recognize themselves in one of the excentric characters that we may have as colleagues.
I watched ´Life on the road´ recently and was happy to see David Brent as foolish as he used to be.
In short, although this series was not perfect, it is cheering up after a hard day at work.
The Couchpotatoes
When they took the decision to finish The Office I honestly was sad. Because you don't get much excellent series like this one. The character of Ricky Gervais is a delight to watch, even though everybody would probably hate the guy in real life. Well at least I would for sure. But in this series he's the funniest character to watch, as well as Mackenzie Crook's character. Actually the whole cast with the totally different characters are all good. When I saw that they sold the rights for an American version of The Office I really thought that it could not ever be the same. British and American humor are completely different so it took me years to finally decide to watch the American version. And that one I absolutely loved as well. So if you are sad like me when you watch the last episode of the British version I can only recommend you start watching the much longer American version.
RaspberryLucozade
Take World War I & II, take The Chernobyl Disaster, take the 9/11. In fact, take all of these horrifying world events, put them all together and you still haven't got anything as bad as 'The Office'.David Brent is the general manager of Wernham Hogg paper merchants in Slough. He is also a charmless nurk whose ego is so inflated its a wonder he hasn't floated away. He believes himself to be something of a big fish but in reality is nothing more than a little shrimp. It was almost like Guy Jenkin and Andy Hamilton's 'Drop The Dead Donkey', minus the jokes.'The Office' has been regarded by some people I know as 'the thinking man's comedy'. Er, why exactly? There is not a great deal to think about. The main character is a braggart and a bully. Some people have also likened Brent to Gordon Brittas from 'The Brittas Empire'. Both characters may be horrible creations but Chris Barrie brought something to the role of Brittas which made him partly likable. Brent had no redeeming features whatsoever. You just wanted to give him a good hiding.Ricky Gervais is one of the unfunniest men on the planet. Not as bad as Frankie Boyle or Keith Lemon, but not by much. If there were any funny moments in the show at all, then they were well hidden. I didn't even so much as crack a smile once.Gervais' next sitcom for the BBC was 'Extras' which, although not as bad as 'The Office', was still fairly dire. More recently he has given us 'Derek' and 'Life's Too Short', neither of which were remotely funny either.
Bene Cumb
I have postponed the watching of this series so far - as I was working in a similar environment for a long time plus the impressions I got were different from the other British sitcoms I definitely liked, e.g. The Thin Blue Line, The IT Crowd, Father Ted... True, the atmosphere in The Office is much more realistic (sometimes too much, boosted by documentary approach), and first episodes caused more unpleasantness and shame than gags or smiles... But then things started to move and Season 2 had more fun/gags than embarrassing moments, although last episodes brought along certain sorry feeling. As for the cast, I knew/remembered (and still admire) Martin Freeman, but I had no aware knowledge of Ricky Gervais, and he irritated me at first, but then I began to comprehend his talent beyond his character (not so rare boss-type at all!) and I liked the result. The whole cast is strong - male ones slightly more visible than females - and the 3rd distinctive character I liked a lot is Gareth Keenan played by Mackenzie Crook.All in all, this mockumentary gets 8 strong points from me.
