sydbuyer This one doesn't pretend to be more than it is. Light to medium comedy with great cast, mix of OK gags and some clever lines. Some reasonable writing and again - a great cast hold it together and leave you with a smile on your face. Pretty good sound track too.

The Movie Diorama It's literally what you expect it to be. An office Christmas party where it goes slightly chaotic towards the end (like all parties should do). The company that our characters work for is undergoing some radical changes by the manager's sibling who is a CEO filled with tyranny and bitterness. In order to save the company, they come up with a plan of throwing a Christmas party for a rich prospect. As always though, things get out of hand. I will say this, it's perfectly enjoyable and fine to watch. Yet the same issues occur with the likes of "The Night Before" and "A Bad Mom's Christmas" where it just feels too random with no focus on a cohesive plot. Don't get me wrong, watching a drugged up man swing from a balcony holding onto Christmas lights is a good time. Even the malicious CEO cursing and destroying the Christmas magic in front of a little girl is amusing. However, when the characters and plot are so bland and formulaic you can't help but feel disconnected. It's another case of random scenes are strung together to gross you out or make you laugh, seemingly more fit into the former category. That, for me, does not make a coherent narrative. Not to mention the various office employees that the plot tried to incorporate. A newly hired worker who has a fetish, a boss who hires a prostitute for the night, an employee who pretends (badly!) to be a DJ...a plethora of minor characters, not enough focus on a substantial plot. If you like your comedies random, then you are sure to like this. Oh, then the typical conclusion arrives where everything is fantastic again. Yay. Merry Christmas. Jason Bateman plays the same character in everything, Olivia Munn was the funniest, Jennifer Aniston was surprisingly good and TJ Miller was fine to watch. The acting was just fine. A few witty lines from the script, but most of the comedic moments are visual. Like I said, it's a fine film but an utterly forgettable one due to its lack of structure and infrequent laughs.

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.

MLDinTN The biggest problem with this movie was it was pointless. The gist is up-tight sis, Carol, visits her brother at the company branch in Chicago. She tells him he has 2 days to increase sales by 12 percent or they will have to fire 40 percent of the employees. So, her brother, Clay, and his compadres throw a Christmas party against Carol's wishes in order to impress this guy whom they are trying to sign to a contract.So they through a huge party at the office, hundreds that aren't even employees show up, and some how Clay is taken by this lady pimp. In his rescue, the internet is wiped out in the entire city. And employee Tracey comes up with some idea that made no sense but restores internet and this some how saves the company. I didn't get that part.FINAL VERDICT: Not very good, skip it.