Bergorks If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

Cooktopi The acting in this movie is really good.

Lollivan It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Erica Derrick By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

grantss It is a few days to Christmas but you wouldn't really know it at the Chicago branch of Zenotec. Due to political correctness and the overzealousness of HR, there is very little in the way of celebrations. A quiet get-together is arranged but this is cancelled when the uptight, money-is-everything CEO (who happens to be the branch manager's sister) puts the kibosh on it. She also intends to retrench 40% of the staff at the branch. In a last ditch attempt to save the staff their jobs, the branch manager tries to land a major client. In order to show the client that they're not cold and uncaring, he (without his sister knowing) throws a huge Christmas party, and invites the client. Things could get rather festive, as long as HR don't have anything to do with it...Funny and fun. I had low expectations for this movie. It looked a lot like the silly sort of thing that Seth Rogen, Jonah Hill and/or James Franco would appear in. The fact that it starred Jason Bateman (and not Seth Rogen, Jonah Hill or James Franco) gave me some hope and from the beginning, the hope was vindicated.Turns out the humour is quite irreverent and non-PC, even anti-PC, (just the way I like it) and reasonably clever in that regard. Definitely not a movie for the easily offended, especially find-an-offense types (even more reason to like it).It does get a bit predictable and silly towards the end but the first act was excellent and if that sort of quality had been maintained this could have been a classic comedy.Good for a laugh, plus for pointing out how stupid companies (and individuals) have gotten in their aversion to Christmas celebrations.

JaynaB I'd never have rented this based on the blurb, and for the past few weeks I ignored it on Netflix. But tonight I gave it the 10-minute test. Ended up glued to the tube. This is the sleeper of the season for Netflix holiday comedy offerings, that might be especially made for SNL fans. If you like movies like 'Rare Imports' and 'Get Santa', take this American offering for a test drive. A slow start, a bit clunky on the early ensemble work, but brother when it hits its stride it is meta-hysterical. During the run-up to the bridge, with the glorious Christmas anthem in full orchestral splendor, I damned near stopped breathing. The outtakes after the credits are a mni-van full of wit and sass.***RATED R AND EARNS IT!!! (there is some really gross stuff in this but they don't dwell on any of it; I've heard the amazing comedic cast improv'd a lot).Not suitable for Family watching.

Eric266 This movie has received some really bad reviews, and rightfully so. Its main crime is taking a very talented cast (Jason Bateman, Jennifer Aniston, Olilva Munn, TJ Miller, Kate McKinnon, and Rob Cordy) and just wasting them. With a less stellar cast, you could maybe forgive its shortcomings as people trying really hard. But with this cast of both standup and comedic actors, it should have been much funnier.The biggest crime, as with most failed movies, is it can't decide what it wants to be. Is it a office comedy in the vein of Office Space or is it a gross out comedy like American Pie, or an over-the- top comedy like The Hangover? The movie never settles on one and it fails at all of them.Miller is the spoiled brother of Aniston. Their rich father has died and left them in charge of the company. They don't like each other. Bateman is the IT supervisor for the company and best friends with Miller. Munn is his whiz kid subordinate and potential love interest. McKinnon is an HR rep and Cordry is an office worker. Aniston is the CEO and she wants to shut down the branch of the company run by Miller. Some of it is out of spite and some out a true desire to see the company succeed by cutting costs. She promises not to shut them down if they can land a big account by the time she gets to London on a Christmas Eve flight. That sets the stage for a massive office party designed to impress the rep from the company whose business they need to land.Much like an SNL episode, this is a series of individual set pieces. They are tentatively held together by the idea of the office party. Nothing really makes a lot of sense and the plot has gaping holes in it. The sentimental wrap up was forced, at best.Now, having said all that, I actually kind of enjoyed it. I've always liked Batemen and I have a huge crush on Munn, and their scenes have some great chemistry. Aniston is really coming in to her own as an actress since Friends ended. Her character could have been better written, but her scene in the airport with the little girl and her arguing with the Uber driver had me busting up laughing. Miller can be funny in small doses, but his character just got mind numbing after a while. The plot didn't really have a lot of teeth but some of the individual scenes were funny and you can really see a good comedic film was in there somewhere.This needed a steadier hand directing it than two guys who didn't seem to grasp what makes a comedy a classic.

adonis98-743-186503 When his uptight CEO sister threatens to shut down his branch, the branch manager throws an epic Christmas party in order to land a big client and save the day, but the party gets way out of hand. Office Christmas Party is the kind of film that you try to understand of why was it even made? The jokes are cheap and retarded and their meant to entertain 5-year olds since people get "wasted" from drinking, Aniston chokes someone until their face starts turning red and someone else falls down and we're supposed to laugh cause it's funny? The acting is terrible and the characters are completely dumb. Jason Bateman's talent goes threw the window and once again Kate McKinnon can't make me smile or at least chuckle. Overall this is an awful comedy and an even worse Christmas Movie. (0/10)