Written by Luke Barnes
Summary
The wacky goings on at an office Christmas Party.
My, my. How could they get a cast together with this many comedic actors and produce such a dud?
This film reeks to me of a corporate comedy. One made by a focus group at the behest of a room full of executives trying to guess at what people find funny, as such it is both overly tame and weak whilst also trying to force in edginess that doesn’t naturally lend itself to the film at all.
As you might assume this doesn’t lead to the film being funny at all. Most of the cast are wasted, or are used in ways that don’t produce any laughs, a good example of this would be Kate McKinnon who is just doing her usual shtick but this time has turned it up even higher. I would say Jason Bateman and Jennifer Aniston are serviceable but nothing more than that and that rather surprisingly Olivia Munn actually ends up being the comedic standout of the film and the only one who had any funny lines.
The film also features T.J Miller before the sexual abuse allegations came out, and he is just awful here. His jokes range from creepy to irritating and I think we can all agree that it is a good thing his face won’t be darkening our collective door anymore.
Overall, a weak, tame and factory produced comedy.
Pros.
Munn
Bateman and Aniston are trying to keep it together
Cons.
It is overstuffed
It isn’t funny
T.J Miller
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