Official Australian release date: 08/12/16. Viewed: 07/12/16.
Director: Josh Gordon & Will Speck
Actors: Jason Bateman, T.J. Miller, Olivia Munn, Jennifer Aniston
Genre: Comedy
Rating: MA
‘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.
Overall: Decent throw-away Christmas
comedy.
Gav's Rating: 3 stars.
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