Office Christmas Party
December. 09,2016 RWhen Carol Vanstone, CEO of the technology company Zenotek, expresses her intention to close the Chicago branch, run by her brother Clay, he and his co-workers organize a Christmas party in an effort to impress a potential client and save their jobs. But the party gets out of control…
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Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.
Such a frustrating disappointment
As Good As It Gets
Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.
It had a few laughs in the beginning, but was repetitive later on. It was mostly flat and boring. It was just an excuse to be rated R with no real timing or buildup. What a lousy comedy for the holidays.
Jason Bateman is awesome with comedy, and he has his own type of style, and it comes through with this movie too, however, not nearly as much as one would prefer.Olivia Munn is a hon, Jaime Chung is hot, T.J. is exactly who he always is in every movie he's in and Jennifer was okay. The script got lazy at some points, dry at others, however there were some pretty funny lines and moments here and there, sadly though, the type that upon a second watch, would probably fall way flat.The "anywair" concept was quite cool though, but again, sadly it felt wasted on a story that was never going to utilize it nearly as efficiently as it could or should. Also, the romance between Josh and Tracey was, uninteresting.Office Christmas Party was okay all around. It's nothing special, but there definitely is worse out there. 5.3/10.
'Office Christmas Party' does what it says on the box - it's a comedy revolving around a workplace Christmas Party in Chicago. It used to be a family business, but now Clay (Miller) runs the office and his sister Carol (Aniston) is trying to shut him down. Josh (Bateman) is the CTO and Tracey (Munn) his IT head/love interest. To boost morale, Clay, Josh & Tracey decide to have a huge Christmas Party - and the debauchery ensues.The support cast is pretty great - Mary from HR (McKinnon, in a terrible Xmas jumper), Jeremy from Customer Relations (Corddry, always funny), Fred from Accounts (Park, with his weird fetish) and Nate from IT (Soni, almost his same cab-driver character from 'Deadpool', great to watch), plus a crazy pimp (Bell). The plot is pretty thin and padded with a car chase and the typical "rave to some techno" scenes. The "love story" between Josh & Tracey is almost non-existent.It's the same directors that bought us 'The Switch' with Bateman and Aniston, but it's nowhere near as fun or inventive as 'Horrible Bosses', or last year's 'The Night Before' - and as far as "adult" Christmas films go, not even close to 'Bad Santa'. There are plenty of laugh out loud moments, and a few good jokes thrown in, but often it seems like it's being crude or stupid for no reason.
When his uptight CEO sister threatens to shut down his branch, the branch manager throws an epic Christmas party in order to land a big client and save the day, but the party gets way out of hand. Office Christmas Party is the kind of film that you try to understand of why was it even made? The jokes are cheap and retarded and their meant to entertain 5-year olds since people get "wasted" from drinking, Aniston chokes someone until their face starts turning red and someone else falls down and we're supposed to laugh cause it's funny? The acting is terrible and the characters are completely dumb. Jason Bateman's talent goes threw the window and once again Kate McKinnon can't make me smile or at least chuckle. Overall this is an awful comedy and an even worse Christmas Movie. (0/10)