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Message: [QUOTE="nelsonmuntz, post: 4398317, member: 833"] [B]Out of Office (2022 - Hulu) [/B]- This is a solid, by-the-numbers, workplace comedy. Stars Milana Vayntrub (Lily from the ATT commercials) as a Millenial loser who stumbles into a job with a fully remote small business. It has a good premise and the cast carries a script that is just OK. There are several scenes that would have flopped with a weaker cast. Vayntrub does a good job keeping a pretty nasty character at least a little sympathetic. She actually may be a little too likable for the role. Ken Jeong is one of the more underrated comedy actors of our generation. He was awesome in the Hangover movies playing over-the-top Chow, but he can dial it way back like he did in this movie and still be really funny. Jay Pharoah (SNL alum) is OK although the role is kind of forgettable. Leslie Jones is the same Leslie Jones character she was on SNL. Emily Pendergast is a great comedy actress. She was Jonah's wife in the last season of VEEP, and despite it being one of the best comedies and one of the strongest casts of all time, she stole every scene she was in that last season. She is great in this movie too. She should get consistent work as a supporting actress in comedies for the next 30 years if her agent does his or her job. Problems with the movie: Jason Alexander and Cheri Oteri are really good as Vayntrub's parents, and actually should have had more screen time because there were pieces of the plot that you don't completely understand until halfway through the movie that should have been established early with her parents and sister. This is the rare movie that really needed to be 10 minutes longer. The movie would have made more sense, and the second act would have had a much better payoff. My biggest knock, by far, is how many commercials Hulu is putting into its programming now. There was an 8 commercial break near the end of the movie that happened right in the middle of a big scene. It is really distracting, especially on a service I am paying for. I know I can pay extra to get rid of the ads, which I will eventually, but it is still annoying. The moral of the story is kind of messed up, but that doesn't bother me with a movie like this. [/QUOTE]

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