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Oh. What. Fun. Critic Reviews
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Metascore Generally Unfavorable
positive
1 (10%)
mixed
7 (70%)
negative
2 (20%)
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Dec 3, 2025
There are no small parts in a Michael Showalter movie. Every actor is a star when they’re on camera.
Dec 2, 2025
Michelle Pfeiffer is reason alone to watch 'Oh. What. Fun.' even if the film never fully reaches its potential.
Dec 2, 2025
To put it simply: it's just another Christmas flick with an artificial heart — if it even has one at all.
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 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.
Dec 2, 2025
The charismatic Pfeiffer deserves much, much better than this soggy stocking stuffer.
Dec 2, 2025
A forgettable blend of unearned saccharinity and unacknowledged sourness, the Michael Showalter-directed dramedy capably proves that Mom is the true angel of the season but falls well short of proving that Christmas is worth all her fussing in the first place.
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.
