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- Office Christmas Party has the makings of being a debaucherous, hilarious time at the theatre, but loses most of its steam by focusing too much on its cliched relationships and cringeworthy solutions to story problems. Not even Kate McKinnon wearing a non-denominational holiday sweater can help it there.
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Dec 9, 2016 · A workplace throwing an early-morning “non-denominational holiday mixer” with a one-drink maximum, as portrayed in the opening scene, is pretty much the on-the-job version of that overtly generic Starbucks yuletide coffee cup that was declared part of the supposed war on Christmas, is it not?
As R-rated Christmas comedies go, "Office Christmas Party" is a merrily entertaining holiday feature featuring an all-star cast with a sporadically funny screenplay.
OFFICE CHRISTMAS PARTY is an over-the-top ensemble comedy about a company holiday party that spirals out of control. Uptight Carol (Jennifer Aniston), CEO of family company Zenotek, threatens to shut down the branch run by her brother, Clay (T.J. Miller) -- and cancel the office Christmas party.
- Josh Gordon, Will Speck
- Joyce Slaton
- Jason Bateman
If you skip one Xmas party this year then make it Office Christmas Party. A criminally unfunny and underdeveloped high concept comedy, trying to recapture that Hangover like tone, Blades of Glory directors Josh Gordon and Will Speck fail to ignite the spirit of Xmas with this comedy caper that brings the festive vibe, but fails to bring the laughs.
- Welcome to the best (or worse) work party in history.
- Verdict
By Alex Welch
Updated: May 2, 2017 6:32 pm
Posted: Dec 8, 2016 6:18 pm
There’s more than a few stretches in Office Christmas Party when it shows the makings of being the funniest film of 2016, and feels like it could live up to its Die Hard meets The Hangover premise. Unfortunately, those moments don’t last nearly as long as they should, when Office Christmas Party all too often cuts away from the hilarious antics taking place throughout the titular “non-denominational holiday mixer” to move forward its plot or continue to drive home it’s cliche character relationships. In a film that should have just been content with the simplicity of its ridiculous premise, Office Christmas Party chooses instead to get too caught up in the minutia of its plot.
Picking up near the end of the year just when everyone is ready to punch out for the last time and rejoice in their annual holiday vacations, Office Christmas Party focuses on the employees and bosses of the Chicago branch of a large tech company named Zenotek. Led by T.J. Miller’s Clay Vanstone and Jason Bateman’s CTO, Josh Parker, everything starts to go haywire at the office when Clay’s sister, Carol (Jennifer Aniston), who’s also Zenotek’s interim CEO following the death of their father, threatens to not only shut down the branch altogether, but also demands that the end-of-the-year mixer be cancelled.
Of course, the latter demand is ignored when Josh and Clay plan on throwing the best office party in history, in order to try and seal the deal with Courtney B. Vance’s Walter Davis, who works for a company that could partner with Zenotek, and effectively save the Chicago branch from being completely shut down. Like it always does, everything quickly starts to spiral out of control then when drugs, alcohol, and the impending possibility of unemployment takes control of all of the employees at the party.
Office Christmas Party has the makings of being a debaucherous, hilarious time at the theatre, but loses most of its steam by focusing too much on its cliched relationships and cringeworthy solutions to story problems. Not even Kate McKinnon wearing a non-denominational holiday sweater can help it there.
- Alex Welch
Dec 7, 2016 · Film Review: ‘Office Christmas Party’ Things get out-of-hand — though not nearly as much as they could have — at a 'non-denominational holiday mixer' conceived in the 'Hangover' mold.
Dec 7, 2016 · Instead of developing an emotional core, Office Christmas Party busies itself with a slew of peripheral characters, among them a cubicle drone who turns into a wild DJ; a girlfriend-less...
