SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped

Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.

Kidskycom 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.

Beulah Bram A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

jrthawk86 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.

Gavin Purtell '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.

feyipuk Given this is Jennifer Aniston and Jason Bateman fifth time together, you'd think they'd change their roles up a bit. He's the corporate lackey, playing it safe and trying to get people to play nice. She's the hard-assed boss, determined to make his life hell! In this case, she's a CEO threatening to shut down his branch, All the standard stereotypes are here; the boss (T.J. Miller) who inherited the company, having done nothing to earn that position. The HR head (Kate McKinnon), so buttoned up she spends her life enforcing the rules,. An IT supervisor (Karan Soni) with seemingly no control, whose attempts to impress his subordinates backfire. And Jason Batemans character has a smart and attractive colleague (Olivia Munn), with an unrequited relationship backstory. And you know that by the end of the film, these misfits will have saved their jobs and probably end up in relationships, all because they got drunk and allowed their colleagues to see them in a different light (and all with only positive, not negative consequences).It's a shame, given the list of stars, that the film just doesn't work that well. The main four characters - Miller, Aniston, Batman and Munn - pull it along, with everyone else following their lead. Even McKinnon (possibly the best thing about the last Ghostbusters) is reduced to fart jokes.Those at the party probably woke up feeling like people who watched to the end of the film.

Paul Dlh The format of this film is played out. The writing is poor. The jokes are forced and actually not funny at all. The cast is great. It feels like they really rushed to make this film so nobody seem to try hard, its more like they are reading the script on the set. Some of the jokes are very immature and embarrasisng to watch. The story line is nothing new. Just go watch any feel good comedy movie and you have basicly the same build up. If you are like me, try this movie out. If you havent laughed the first 5 minutes than you wont laugh the rest of the movie.