Just what I expected

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

Most clever, dry British humor. Just as good as our American office(who is it's father). Hilarious in a whole different way from our version but happily there is room enough for these two great shows!

Having heard that the British version is not as good as the American it took me long time to finally watch this short TV show. I was pleasantly surprised. This show is actually really good. I can't say if American or British version are better until at least I watch the US version again. But I can surely say that this is definitely high class comedy and one should also not forget was the original idea.The show has some great characters. Especially outstanding are David and Gareth who make us laugh in every episode. The humor is clever, with greatly written dialogues and also some nice physical comedy.Besides humor we also have a nice office romance of Tim and Dawn. It is really well portrayed by very realistic looks and moments that show us exactly what the characters are feeling.The Christmas special added a great ending to this wonderful show and gave us the closure that we were lacking after the second season was over.It was planned to be that short but it is a good idea. They put everything important into the episodes and gave us a good picture of this office comedy and people in it.

It doesn't spoon feed you the jokes, but, if you are paying attention there is some super funny stuff here. If the people who made this never made anything else it would already be enough. I love David Brent as a character, he may say and do dumb things sometimes, but, he is a nice person who just wants to be liked. Tim and Dawn are more normal and Gareth is the perfect right hand man for Brent. You can see the influence of Larry Sanders. It is a great show and it deserves all the hype.

Now I understand the appeal of 'The Office'. It was revolutionary at the time and well deserves its title of being a modern classic. But sometimes with comedy you have to put your hands up and say "it's not for me". And on this occasion I have to do that with this show.It's well written, it's well acted but I don't find it all that funny or to be honest the characters all that endearing other than in the Christmas specials that ended the show. Gervais was catapulted into the big time based on playing David Brent and fair play to him.I can't say though that I love the language that's often used or the sexual references. Some of the episodes plod along and the second series in particular is at times depressing. All these reasons are why I rank this show so low.