Anyone thinking of going into the corporate work force might want to see the new release from 20th Century Fox, “Office Space,” first.Written and directed by Mike Judge, the creator of “Beavis and Butt-Head” and “King of the Hill,” the movie takes a look at just how tedious and mundane a white-collar worker’s life can get.The movie stars Ron Livingston (Swingers) as Peter Gibbons, a computer programmer who is in the middle of a mid-life crisis, but he’s only in his late twenties.Livingston hates everything about his job, but feels powerless to do anything about it because he needs his paycheck. So, in an attempt to make his life seem worth living, he visits an occupational hypnotherapist. In the midst of his first session, the therapist drops dead, leaving Livingston thinking about his own mortality.He decides from this point on that he isn’t going to care about his job anymore and begins to do whatever he wants. Livingston begins by showing a total disregard for office policies. He arrives and leaves work as he pleases and abandons the dress code completely. And instead of doing his paperwork, he guts a fish on his desk and throws the remains on the stack of papers.The last straw comes when he knocks down one of his cubicle walls so that he can look out the windows in between playing games on his computer. At the same time that he stops caring about working, his company brings in two consultants to start downsizing the corporation. The consultants, however, think that Livingston is a good worker and actually recommend that he get a promotion.His two hard-working friends, Michael Bolton (David Herman from Fox’s “King of the Hill”) and Samir (Ajay Naidu from NBC’s “Lateline”), however, end up getting laid off. The movie changes directions at this point, as the three of them devise a plot to use a computer virus to skim money from company accounts.Judge has created a good comedy that is successful at taking a look at life from inside an office cubicle. The characters might be slight exaggerations of real life, but are close enough to make any office worker cringe. He has included almost every possible person that one might come across in a white-collar office: under-appreciated, faithful workers, a number of supervisors who never seem to be doing anything, countless office drones and Milton.Milton, played by Stephen Root (from NBC’s “News Radio”), is the quiet guy in the office that is always on the edge of pulling out an assault rifle and shooting everyone. It is also the name of a character from a series of animated shorts by Judge on which the movie is based.The movie features some truly humorous scenes that should make any fan of Judge’s work happy. This includes a scene of a mafia-style destruction of a troublesome fax machine.The plot of the movie basically takes a backseat to the humor. It is more or less just there to give the movie a setting for the comedy.There are no real standout performances in the movie. Instead, the cast as a whole is solid and works well together to paint the perfect picture of a tortuous office existence.