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Office Christmas Party (2016)

Comedy | 105 minutes
2,66 566 votes

Genre: Comedy

Duration: 105 minuten

Alternative title: Office Party

Country: United States

Directed by: Josh Gordon and Will Speck

Stars: Jason Bateman, Olivia Munn and T.J. Miller

IMDb score: 5,9 (93.790)

Releasedate: 25 November 2016

Office Christmas Party plot

"Party like your job depends on it"

In "Office Christmas Party," the CEO of a family business threatens to shut down her party brother Clay's department. Clay and his technical director gather their colleagues and organize a grand Christmas party in an effort to attract a potential client that will lead to a sale that will save them their jobs. The party soon gets out of hand.

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IH88

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“Hey, Santa! Wanna party?”

Total madness. Office Christmas Party clearly wants to go big, but the "been there, done that" feeling got to me. Crude and vulgar humor, a love story, Aniston and Bateman, and of course a sentimental ending.

Fortunately, the film still holds on to that last level. The Christmas party itself is total craziness and chaos and actually painfully unfunny. The humor isn't very successful (McKinnon in particular is terrible again), but luckily Bateman, Aniston and Miller are experienced powers that know the ropes. Only Olivia Munn feels a bit miscast and can really do better than this. Not annoying, but within the genre mediocre.

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Onderhond

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Mediocre.

It's also a strange choice to make a party comedy with people like Bateman, McKinney and Aniston in the lead. Bateman and Aniston are still comedy-proof, but really not in a film like this, they have a slightly too boring image for that (which they can't get rid of in this film either).

Furthermore, fairly classic in structure, with a successful joke here and there, but also much more boring moments and jokes that just fall completely into the water. Fortunately, we didn't see a trailer beforehand, then the best thing about a film like this is gone anyway.

Annoying ending too. Film was long over by then, but because there is still a happy ending, a lot of idiotic bullshit is suddenly made up to make it end well. Not that the plot is the most important thing in a comedy, but don't pay too much attention to it either, it will make your movie shorter and more fun if you don't try to explain some things or just ignore it hard.

Just enough for once, but not really special.

2.5*

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tommykonijn

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A Christmas film about a group of employees who take the Christmas drink a little too big, causing it to get completely out of hand. The fact sounds very nice and most of the cast has already proven itself. Unfortunately, Office Christmas Party is especially very bland. I can't imagine not having more of this. It never wants to get really funny for some reason. It could all have been a bit more absurd anyway, but what it is most of all: the characters don't work. I have completely forgotten about most of the employees now, just days after seeing the film. I can only remember the foursome I already knew and they can't save this mess either. Jennifer Aniston plays a very cold character here. A character a la Rachel Green suits her better and I think it would have come into its own here. The movie wasn't great already, but bottomed out with that ridiculous subplot towards the end where Miller goes crazy. I found the last half hour excruciatingly long-winded and the sugary sweet ending doesn't come into its own. Nice attempt to piggyback on the success of The Hangover, but I don't need to see this again.

1,5*

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