A film that's pretty much as generic as it's title, "Office Christmas Party" is very much a standard issue US comedy where the heroic protagonists engage in all kinds of unruly behaviour both to celebrate the season and to hopefully win one big business account. Few actors emerge with particular credit - Jason Bateman is still stuck in roughly exactly the same role he's been performing since 2003's "Arrested Development", TJ Miller's playing a less interesting variation on his "Silicon Valley" character, Jennifer Aniston's applying the same bitchiness she had for "Horrible Bosses", and so on down the cast list. Kate McKinnon almost manages to make her uptight HR figure work (despite more than one fart joke). But really, this feels utterly photocopied from several other movies without an original thought in its brain.
Well, mostly. The last-minute-twist that saves the company is so utterly ludicrous I don't think any other movie would be dumb enough to include it. But one last minute ludicrous twist is not enough to save this from the ranks of the truly inessential.
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