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Office Christmas Party (2016)

December. 09,2016
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When 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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Kidskycom
2016/12/09

It's funny watching the elements come together in this complicated scam. On one hand, the set-up isn't quite as complex as it seems, but there's an easy sense of fun in every exchange.

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Kien Navarro
2016/12/10

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

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Kaelan Mccaffrey
2016/12/11

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

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Quiet Muffin
2016/12/12

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.

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jrthawk86
2016/12/13

I understand why people might be down on this movie but I really enjoyed it. It had the right elements of the great party comedy. Great cast. Great party. Maybe I really enjoyed it because I was drinking along with it and wanted it to be good. But is that such a problem to have? It did feel like it couldn't quite hit the punchline as well as I wanted it to. But if you want to have fun with it you will.

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blapple90
2016/12/14

I was looking to watch a funny Christmas movie that isn't Elf or A Christmas Story so I gave this a chance since I really like Jason Bateman and I can say I was entertained throughout the whole thing. It's not the greatest movie ever but it checked the boxes I was looking for while watching. It's definitely stupid humor but it gave me a few good laughs

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Gavin Purtell
2016/12/15

'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.

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Eric266
2016/12/16

This movie has received some really bad reviews, and rightfully so. Its main crime is taking a very talented cast (Jason Bateman, Jennifer Aniston, Olilva Munn, TJ Miller, Kate McKinnon, and Rob Cordy) and just wasting them. With a less stellar cast, you could maybe forgive its shortcomings as people trying really hard. But with this cast of both standup and comedic actors, it should have been much funnier.The biggest crime, as with most failed movies, is it can't decide what it wants to be. Is it a office comedy in the vein of Office Space or is it a gross out comedy like American Pie, or an over-the- top comedy like The Hangover? The movie never settles on one and it fails at all of them.Miller is the spoiled brother of Aniston. Their rich father has died and left them in charge of the company. They don't like each other. Bateman is the IT supervisor for the company and best friends with Miller. Munn is his whiz kid subordinate and potential love interest. McKinnon is an HR rep and Cordry is an office worker. Aniston is the CEO and she wants to shut down the branch of the company run by Miller. Some of it is out of spite and some out a true desire to see the company succeed by cutting costs. She promises not to shut them down if they can land a big account by the time she gets to London on a Christmas Eve flight. That sets the stage for a massive office party designed to impress the rep from the company whose business they need to land.Much like an SNL episode, this is a series of individual set pieces. They are tentatively held together by the idea of the office party. Nothing really makes a lot of sense and the plot has gaping holes in it. The sentimental wrap up was forced, at best.Now, having said all that, I actually kind of enjoyed it. I've always liked Batemen and I have a huge crush on Munn, and their scenes have some great chemistry. Aniston is really coming in to her own as an actress since Friends ended. Her character could have been better written, but her scene in the airport with the little girl and her arguing with the Uber driver had me busting up laughing. Miller can be funny in small doses, but his character just got mind numbing after a while. The plot didn't really have a lot of teeth but some of the individual scenes were funny and you can really see a good comedic film was in there somewhere.This needed a steadier hand directing it than two guys who didn't seem to grasp what makes a comedy a classic.

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