i know i wasted 90 mins of my life.

An Exercise In Nonsense

It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

Originally presented as a newspaper comic-strip - I found that the decidedly unfunny situations that took place in this TV show's half-hour, animated episodes were all (much to my annoyance) consistently milked completely bone-dry.Repeatedly - I found that every single character (including Dogbert) in these dull, flat episodes were all a totally unlikable bunch. Indeed.It sure seemed to me that this show's sole idea of humour, unfortunately, thrived on the callousness of sneering cynicism where everyone was far too eager to cut his fellow man down without even batting a single eyelash.All-in-all - I could not, for the life of me, relate to any of these vile characters, whatsoever. They were all downright sickening and despicable bores right to their very core.

As mentioned in other posts, this series is definitely a love/hate relationship with most loyal Dilbert fans.My worst fear when I first started watching the show was the voice-overs. The transition from comic to TV was amazing in my eyes. Beyond being very truthful to Scott Adams initial idea, the voice-overs matched almost perfectly what I imagined the cast of the comic to sound like.The TV series adds to what the comic portrays - a humorous series of jokes that are exclusive to those that fall out of the "In-duh-vidual" category (those who are familiar with DNRC and Dilbert.com will understand what I mean).My particular favorite quote, after Alice reads Dilbert's love poem to Lena, the last line being "My passions exceed, (pi)(r)^2 times infinity", she comments saying that he is crazy, and further that the line is meaningless if r is undefined. Just hilarious. Thank you so much Scott Adams, you are my hero.If you enjoy the Dilbert comic, you will most likely enjoy this series. Watch it. NOW!

Having seen a couple of strips in random publications (and being unable to relate to the office-related humour due to not having worked in an office) I got around to catching the cartoon version when it aired on channel Seven in its late pm slot. My introduction was the Elbonian episode, my conclusion was that it wasn't a successful translation to the TV screen and I watched a couple of more episodes (the show disappeared anyway). Recently my older brother got hold of all 30 Dilbert episodes from a person with broadband, and having seen Dilbert from the start I could enjoy the linear progression of the story lines. The second time around I quite enjoyed it although the Elbonian episodes still baffled me. I thought one of the voices sounded familiar and I realised it was Chris Elliot who did Dogbert's voice (without internet help), the rest of the voice work is quite good, at a Futurama level almost.From what I've learned of UPN (I looked up their TV schedule once) it's surprising that they do have quality shows. Before looking at this page I assumed that Dilbert was a popular show still in production, but unfortunately the 30 episodes are all there is, which I think is enough to show what it could do.

Being a member of the DNRC, and having read Dilbert of the last 8 or 9 years, I bought the Complete Series DVD without thinking about it twice.The DVD is interesting. While the comic strip moved forward and focused on office affairs, the series starts focused on Dilbert's work, and then moves in other directions. This is where it all falls apart. The episodes with Dilbert's mom, dad, or (worst of them all) Pregnant Dilbert are, quite simply, some of the most boring cartoons I've ever watched. The ending of that particular episode is so bad, I was very grateful it was the last cartoon of the last DVD.It's obvious the whole thing was made to cash in on the popularity of the strip. Sadly, I'm sure it made people simply ignore the strip (thinking it was more of the same), and it disappointed people like me.