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- 2025
- PG-13
- Amazon Prime Video
- 1 h 47 m
- 2025
- PG-13
- Amazon Prime Video
- 1 h 47 m
Summary Claire Clauster (Michelle Pfeiffer) is the glue that holds her chaotic, lovable family together every holiday season. From perfectly frosted cookies to meticulously wrapped gifts, no one decks the halls quite like Claire. But this year, as her grown kids and distracted husband get swept up in their own seasonal dramas, they make one cruc...
Directed By: Michael Showalter
Written By: Chandler Baker, Michael Showalter
- 2025
- PG-13
- Amazon Prime Video
- 1 h 47 m
- 2025
- PG-13
- Amazon Prime Video
- 1 h 47 m
Oh. What. Fun.
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Summary Claire Clauster (Michelle Pfeiffer) is the glue that holds her chaotic, lovable family together every holiday season. From perfectly frosted cookies to meticulously wrapped gifts, no one decks the halls quite like Claire. But this year, as her grown kids and distracted husband get swept up in their own seasonal dramas, they make one cruc...
Directed By: Michael Showalter
Written By: Chandler Baker, Michael Showalter
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
39
10% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
70% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
20% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
39
10% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
70% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
20% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Dec 3, 2025
There are no small parts in a Michael Showalter movie. Every actor is a star when they’re on camera.
Dec 3, 2025
If the idea was to make something for the moms, “Oh. What. Fun.” is about as thoughtful as a hastily scribbled card on a piece of printer paper the morning of her birthday. We can all do better.
User Score
Mixed or Average Based on 9 User Ratings
4.3
22% Positive
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
33% Mixed
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
44% Negative
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average Based on 9 User Ratings
4.3
22% Positive
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
33% Mixed
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
44% Negative
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
Dec 3, 2025
enjoyable and sweet, all the performances are great, especially michelle pfeiffer.
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Dec 3, 2025
"Oh. What. Fun." is just another Christmas flick with an artificial heart — if it even has one at all. While it has an excellent director, Michael Showalter, who also co-scripted, some nice music, and top performers, and the exquisitely lovely Havana Rose Liu, very appealing as Jeanne’s daughter, it keeps undermining our sympathy with off-kilter stakes and inert efforts at humor but still enjoyable to watch. Claire has always been a fixer. She cannot help it. Every Christmas, she is the engine behind the sprawling family celebration, orchestrating every detail for her now-adult children while simultaneously waging suburban holiday warfare against her flawlessly put-together, cardigan-clad neighbor, Jeanne Wang-Wasserman. But this year, Claire’s one wish is simple: she wants her children to finally see her. All they have to do is submit her application for the “Mother of the Year” contest on the holiday special of Zazzy Tims’ daytime talk show. Despite her gentle nudges, painfully and predictably, her kids forget. The last straw snaps when they also forget to take her to the highly anticipated Christmas dance show the family has been planning to attend. Left literally and figuratively alone, Claire reaches a turning point. If no one else is going to champion her, she will take ownership of the holiday herself and perhaps, for the first time, of her own personal joy. Written by Michael Showalter and Chandler Baker and directed by Showalter, boasts an impressive ensemble: Michelle Pfeiffer, Denis Leary, Felicity Jones, Chloë Grace Moretz, Dominic Sessa, Jason Schwartzman, Joan Chen, Maude Apatow, Danielle Brooks, and Eva Longoria. Pfeiffer especially grounds the film with a blend of comic precision and emotional vulnerability that elevates even its broadest beats. The film is one of those Christmas stories that instantly feels familiar, not in the formulaic Hallmark or Lifetime sense, but in the broader, lived-in tradition of seasonal movies. It mirrors some of the core beats of Home Alone: the mother who is forgotten, left behind, and forced to fend for herself. Yet the third act lands in a surprisingly grounded place, even as the movie indulges in a few warm, Hallmark-esque moments toward its conclusion. Unsurprisingly, "Oh. What. Fun." leans heavily into the idea that mothers are often overlooked during the holidays, despite being the invisible scaffolding that holds everything together. And while that is a sentiment many families can relate to, the film broadens the theme: the thanklessness of motherhood is not seasonal; it is constant. In a twist that feels both honest and a little self-aware, the movie then tries to undo the guilt it has spent so long cultivating. It suggests that mothers do not just endure being needed, they sometimes thrive on it. Like a good mother, the film offers comfort even as it delivers hard truths, leaving the audience with the sense that recognition, while overdue, is always worth giving. "Oh. What. Fun." may not reinvent the holiday-movie wheel, but it navigates familiar terrain with charm, warmth, and a pointed, at times uncomfortable, honesty. It is a film that recognizes the emotional labor behind the season and, fittingly, gives the overlooked matriarch her overdue moment at center stage.
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Dec 3, 2025
While “Oh. What. Fun” has an excellent director, Michael Showalter, who also co-scripted, some nice music, and top performers, including Danielle Brooks as a delivery driver Claire meets on the road, and the exquisitely lovely Havana Rose Liu, very appealing as Jeanne’s daughter, it keeps undermining our sympathy with off-kilter stakes and inert efforts at humor.
Dec 2, 2025
The charismatic Pfeiffer deserves much, much better than this soggy stocking stuffer.
Dec 4, 2025
Nothing can distract us from a script that just doesn’t work, family dynamics we don’t believe, jokes we don’t laugh at and characters we don’t care about. Oh. What. Fun. is anything but.
Dec 5, 2025
Oh, What. Crap. This lump of coal in our holiday stocking entraps Michelle Pfeiffer and is flat, stilted, lazy and so stretched out with Xmas clichés that you want to scream, bah-humbug.
Dec 2, 2025
Beyond its desperate gestures towards better movies and its countless regifted plot points, Oh. What. Fun. does end up looking a lot like a familiar Christmas fixture: a garbage bag full of torn wrapping paper.
Dec 4, 2025
I'd actually give it a 6.5 since most of the christmas/romance movies that are any good are 6.5 or better. I was surprised at the actors in this movie. I almost didn't recognize Michelle Pfeiffer but she's still beautiful at 67. The story was a typical one and the sidelines were amusing. We'd give this: "go ahead and watch because it's a good holiday movie."
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