Here’s a movie
that makes you want to cry—but not from laughter. Even though it’s meant to be
a comedy, filled with talented comics whose job was to make you laugh until you
cry, the only tears I shed were tears of disappointment. The movie failed on so
many levels to entertain, and made me wish I had something better to do than to
see it,
Jennifer Aniston leads the pack of comedians, and even her presence as an overbearing “dick in a skirt” couldn’t save the movie. The plot is all over the place, with too many sub-stories that the writers tried to tie together into a grand ending. The problem is, characters who were barely relevant ended up playing key roles in the finale, tripping over clichés and knocking down anything meaningful in the process.
While the movie
was a box office success, almost everything else about it fell flat. The
casting felt too silly to make any of the characters memorable, and the plot
was too weak to make sense. Even the so-called “magical moment” that kicked off
the chaos was completely uneventful.
The story begins
when one of the characters accidentally puts cocaine into a snow machine at a
party. By sheer coincidence, the man the leads are trying to win over for a
business deal happens to walk by the snow machine, gets doused in cocaine, and
ends up high.
The plot
revolves around Clay Vanstone (T. J. Miller), the rich, spoiled, dumb, and
naïve son of a millionaire, who’s running one of his late father’s IT company
branches. His sister, Carol Vanstone (Jennifer Aniston), is the head of the
company and has decided to shut down Clay’s branch, claiming it’s not making
enough money. She even cancels their Christmas party plans to save costs.
Desperate to
keep the branch open, Clay lies and says he’s closing a big deal that will
bring in enough money to save the branch. Carol agrees to give him a chance,
but now Clay, along with his close friends Josh Parker (Jason Bateman) and
Tracey Hughes (Olivia Munn), must convince a company’s procurement staff to buy
servers from them.
When the deal
starts to fall apart, Clay invites the man to their Christmas party, claiming
it’ll show how the office runs like a family. From there, the movie dives head first into a parade of clichés, missing no stops along the way.
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