Olivia Munn

This is the first balls-to-the-wall comedy review I’ve done and I think I need to be clear that with other movies, you know, the ones that actually take themselves kind of seriously, I try to pay a lot of attention to intricacies like plot, pacing, direction, cinematography and framing, acting quality and whether the movie is thought provoking or insightful. In the case of a movie with the generic title Office Christmas Party, all that serious stuff sort of gets thrown out the window because as a comedy, its first, last and pretty much only priority is to get the audience laughing. Movies like this don’t have plots, they have a basic premise which serves only as a framework to create preposterous or insanely funny situations which, if done right, give us an excuse to forget political correctness, manners or discretion. Sure, there’s all kinds of deep analysis about cultural trends and social anxieties that can be made about what it is that allows us to burn off some stress and what we find humor in, but the bottom line for any comedy is not any of that, it’s did it make me laugh?Read More »Office Christmas Party movie review