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Joe's Apartment is a 1996 musical-comedy film produced by MTV, based on a short film that appeared on the Liquid Television anthology series, and follows a hapless apartment owner who lives with thousands of cockroaches.
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.
Some viewers will still want to reach for the Raid.
May 20, 2003
Film Threat
Good shorts don't make good features...
May 23, 2006
ReelViews
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.
'Less is more' is the lesson Hollywood often fails to learn.
May 15, 2003
TV Guide
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.
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.