When his uptight CEO sister threatens to shut down his branch, a hard-partying man and his chief technical officer must rally their co-workers and host an epic office Christmas party in hopes of showing a potential client that their company is in good standing. However, the party soon gets way out of hand...
10 April 1983, San Francisco, California, USA
25 April 1984, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
4 June 1981, Denver, Colorado, USA
11 February 1969, Sherman Oaks, California, USA
24 September 1981, Clearwater, Florida, USA
26 February 1975, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
March 22, 2017
Maybe it's because of all the depressing news... or ... the holidays and we are in dire need to see something lighthearted and, frankly, stupid right now, but this is temporarily satisfying. I guess that's all we can ask for this moment.
December 09, 2016
Yet another reminder that allowing your cast to madly improvise instead of actually providing a coherent script with a scintilla of logic often leads to a decline in sustained laughter.
December 09, 2016
The supporting characters are the people who are funny. They're the people we care about. And every time the movie cuts from their mad antics ... the whole film starts to deflate a little, like a Mylar balloon from the discount party store.
December 09, 2016
Even a third act demolition derby tribute to The Blues Brothers can't revitalize this stiff.
December 09, 2016
A joyless, laughless - that's right, not even one laugh - affair that proves how indulgent and (worse) boring ensemble comedies such as this become when the ensemble has next to no natural chemistry and even less of a script to riff off of.
January 04, 2017
Office Christmas Party is a prime example of the pitfalls of throwing Hollywood resources at an under-developed screenplay, hoping the actors will save your ass on the set.
January 04, 2017
There are laughs to be had, but this certainly won't be considered a Christmas classic in years to come.
January 13, 2017
The celebration that goes too far is a movie comedy staple, but there's something a bit disturbing about Office Christmas Party's vision of corporate America self-immolating at the end of one terrible year.
February 21, 2017
There are large impressive stunts, pratfalls and chaos, but seldom does Office Christmas Party ever actually shock or delight in the way that it thinks it does.
January 01, 2017
Even Kate McKinnon's tightly-wound HR director wears out her tightly-smiling-Midwesterner welcome after a while.
December 09, 2016
The rager's excesses are wholly predictable: cocaine, a lot of white people jumping up and down to DJ Kool, gay-panicky visuals with eggnog.
December 09, 2016
Like most office Christmas parties, you should skip it.
