{"id":622479,"date":"2026-06-05T10:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T10:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/622479\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T10:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T10:38:10","slug":"office-romance-review-delivers-on-big-outlandish-gags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/622479\/","title":{"rendered":"Office Romance Review \u2013 ‘Delivers on big, outlandish gags’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Facing litigation, impassioned airline CEO Jackie (Jennifer Lopez) is thrown together with her company\u2019s lawyer Daniel (Brett Goldstein). As sparks begin to fly, their company\u2019s internal anti-dating policy, plus Jackie\u2019s reputation, is tested.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been a fair few years since Jennifer Lopez: total goofball has made an appearance on our screens. Make no mistake, the usual tools in her arsenal are all deployed in this zesty work-based romp co-written by her co-star Brett Goldstein. Lopez still commands a room, her finessed swagger compounded by an extensive range of towering Louboutin heels. She still brings a street-smart edge to her high-flying, high-earning exec. Yet thanks to an R-rated, zinger-fuelled script from Goldstein and his Ted Lasso<\/a> co-creator Joe Kelly, she gets to embrace a rare silliness, as her character\u2019s crush on her moralistic British colleague deepens.<\/p>\n

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The stars align after Daniel\u2019s assigned to represent Jackie in a case against a slippery competitor. Both have thus far maintained a reserved, professional energy at work; Daniel, who chafes against chatty American workplace culture, even puts on a clipped British accent (a pointed departure from the sweary growls of his Lasso character Roy Kent). To the chagrin of Jackie\u2019s second-in-command and confidant Sydney \u2014 played by a scene-stealing, gut-busting Betty Gilpin who should be booked as a comedy lead immediately \u2014 the pair inevitably fall into a lustful, forbidden affair. Cue elevator encounters, tropical fumblings and a very particular kink-revelation that makes for one of the funniest scenes.<\/p>\n

Office Romance delivers on big, outlandish gags.<\/p>\n

The film is at its strongest within these pockets of weirdness. A monologue delivered by Goldstein fires off C-bombs like artful ammunition, while a punchline about misdirected fluids from Lopez lands a big laugh. The \u201crom\u201d doesn\u2019t quite keep up with the \u201ccom\u201d, however. The dynamic between the couple is intentional: Goldstein, a relative newcomer to the genre, wrote Jackie with Lopez, a seasoned romantic lead, in mind. The glowing, cocksure Yank running circles around the bumbling Brit is of course a timeless trope, but at times fact and fiction blur, with Lopez\u2019s breezy charms seeming to throw her co-star off-balance. The story occasionally suffers from formulaic limits too, with certain third-act developments feeling hasty and frictionless. These quibbles will not be what linger after the credits roll, however. Office Romance delivers on big, outlandish gags courtesy of a gang of sweet, odd pros. All hail Goofball Lopez.<\/p>\n

An undeniably funny copulating caper that makes good on the laughs, if a little less on the lust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Facing litigation, impassioned airline CEO Jackie (Jennifer Lopez) is thrown together with her company\u2019s lawyer Daniel (Brett Goldstein).…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-622479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}