This offering from MTV studios probably won’t win too many awards. But it is fun. The animation of the cockroaches is really pretty good – especially when you consider that this was done ten years ago. And if that wasn’t enough by itself, the musical numbers they put on aren’t bad either.

Jerry O’Connell may not be your favorite actor, and it’s not like the role of Joe is much out of the ordinary for him. But the movie does feature Megan Ward as naive politician’s daughter Lily Dougherty who Joe is hoping to date if his, uh, roommates don’t keep getting in the way.

Joe’s apartment (that is, the actual apartment) isn’t clean. The movie isn’t as dirty as you’d think. While Joe isn’t a particularly intelligent guy, he is the proverbial nice guy, and his friends (those would be the roaches) want to help, though they don’t always do exactly what they’re supposed to do to help him get there. In the end, though, we see that nice guys do win.

Along the way, though, it’s not always pretty. First the roaches have to screw up Joe’s chances with Lily. Then Joe hits bottom – and when you live in an apartment infested with roaches who like to perform musical numbers, and you’re not at the bottom yet, you can imagine that it must get pretty bad.

It’s a good thing for Joe that he just happens to live in the apartment that he does, because otherwise he would be in real trouble. When the guys come to throw him out, he would just be someone else who has been thrown out so that they can tear down the building. But because of the roaches, Joe is actually saved, and they feel so bad about what they did, they pull together and fix up the park that she’s been trying to clean up and that manages to get Lily bak for Joe, so it all works out in the end.

Rated PG-13 for crude humor and a brief drug reference. The rating is mostly for the crude humor. Teenage boys will love it if you let them.

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