Brice and company get too tied up in the character comedy for Corporate Animals to work as a satire, and the televisual filmmaking isn’t helped by a plotline that could have been a single episode of The Office.

| Sep 20, 2023

Director Patrick Brice's film presents itself as a comedy and you might be of the mindset that there should be enough talent there to raise a few laughs. It doesn't.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Feb 6, 2020

If you're going to do deadpan humor, don't explain every joke. If you're going to do an ensemble piece, maybe don't have twice as many people as you need.

| Jan 17, 2020

Overall, Corporate Animals suffers from an imbalance of predictability and creativity. It has some hilarious moments but ultimately, it feels like a missed opportunity.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 7, 2019

Despite some clever one-liners, the idea hits the rocks once the characters are trapped and the screenplay gives them nowhere to go.

| Oct 25, 2019

Tries to coast on grisly slapstick and the kind of social "satire" that constitutes little more than gawking at squabbling jerks.

| Original Score: C- | Oct 11, 2019

It is a fantastic idea that never gels into anything worth watching, and I suggest you miss it.

| Original Score: 1/10 | Sep 30, 2019

Many of the jokes lead to nothing more than just brainless goofiness for its own sake. Some comedies are fine as pure slapstick, but the gags are so obvious, so on the nose or just thrown around with little gusto that it's rather stale.

| Sep 26, 2019

Corporate Animals is an absolute chore to sit through. The film's attempt to satirize corporate culture is painfully unfunny.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 25, 2019

In the end, that's the story of Corporate Animals - a lack of commitment. It wants to be a dark scathing look at our economic climate with jokes, but it blinks. Instead, it settles for bland, warmed-over commentary that barely elicits a chuckle.

| Sep 23, 2019

Demi Moore deserves credit for going all in on a bold role like this. Unfortunately, while her performance has bite, the film itself doesn't really.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 21, 2019

Inconsequential and tiresome,. it's a sub-standard, if subversive satire....

| Original Score: 3/10 | Sep 21, 2019

This mostly laugh-free dark comedy plunges into icky territory, with largely unlikable characters; aside from trying to mock the American workforce, it doesn't seem to have much of a point.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 21, 2019

A ludicrous and disgusting black comedy.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 20, 2019

Corporate culture gets a delightfully twisted kick in the *ss when a 'team-building retreat' turns disastrous. As horror vies with comedy, the pitch(black)-perfect cast gets the balance just right.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 20, 2019

Screenwriter Sam Bain's random gags feel like a desperate attempt to be shocking.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 20, 2019

The film is written so broadly and doesn't have many, if any, spurts of energy to sustain its short runtime.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 20, 2019

A miserable time in poor company.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 20, 2019

Mercifully short but still stretched far beyond sustainability, Corporate Animals is a methodically tedious comedy.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 20, 2019

Sophomoric, asinine, and painfully unfunny. You would have to be a dumb and shallow masochist to enjoy it.

| Original Score: 1.5242228/10 | Sep 20, 2019