Oh. What. Fun.

Important: Claire background noise for most of this film.

I'm upping the woke level for Oh. What. Fun. because it actually does kind of bash men and the mom is a bit more annoying than the original review lets on. Other reviews are correct here. I seem to remember there was kind of a silly action scene for about 15 minutes towards the end the I thought was funny, which would explain the higher rating.

Not sure what happened in Acts 1 and 2. The movie was quite unfunny, at least for me and I was expecting kind of a fun movie. Lucky for us, that all changes about a half hour before the film ends. Go ahead and use this as background noise for any time before that. The characters are translucent, of course one is a lesbian. Get to know them for a minute or so in preparation for the last half hour.

It's a bit Leave it to Beaver around moms, and it gets more life lesson preachy and especially sappy towards the very end, but yeah, from about a half hour towards the end of the film, for 15 minutes, Oh What Fun is fun. And I dig Michelle Pfeiffer. She's cool.

For a Rom-Com mom Christmas movie, I say give it a whirl. I even bumped the overall rating up a little as I made it though the movie. It's a little too mom focused to be in my Christmas rotation, but good for a watch.

I'm sorry but this was awful. The acting is ok at best. Leary gives a subdued bored performance. Nobody is likable at all in this, especially the mom who is the central character and narrates the entire movie. She complains the entire movie that nobody pays attention to her and she has it so hard and nobody appreciates her yet she is a horrible self absorbed person who makes everything about her and actually ignores others while they are literally having a conversation with her. I would go so far as to say she has a mental disorder as she spends most of the movie acting deranged and not in a funny way. There are very few laughs to be had. The writing is abysmal and nothing makes sense. She's obsessed with a stupid tv personality and sends messages to her kids that there is a contest, but doesn't tell them she wants to be entered and they don't watch the stupid show so how would they know? She gets mad and seems to have a complete mental breakdown when they don't enter her. The entire family leaves to go to a disturbing kids Christmas basically male stripshow for some creepy reason and she gets left behind and nobody notices until they are all inside watching the creepshow. They all have phones and she has her own car but rather than call or just go meet them herself she does what any irrational mental patient would do and abandons her family without telling them anything to drive to CA for the stupid housewife tv show contest. The writing is beyond implausible and it just gets dumber and more ridiculous as it goes on. The jokes aren't funny at all and there are only a few humorous moments in the entire movie. The scene transitions are abrupt and jarring with poor editing. Multiple out of place weird dance sequences with characters that aren't funny. As for woke....well the first scene is the mom going on a rant about how Christmas movies are all about men while the wives and moms get ignored and they are the ones who do everything. The usual feminist oppression men have it made bs. All the male characters are losers, or betas, or just pathetic. The daughter is a successful writer while her husband (who acts very gay) is pathetic who has an odd obsession with the lesbian sister liking him. The son is a loser without a job who's girlfriend leaves him then falls for the Asian neighbor who is naturally very successful. The husband seems to do nothing all day and can't even manage to put together a doll house without calling in 2 male friends so they can sit around acting like confused morons who still can't figure it out. Who gives a giant pink doll house to both twin kids when one is a boy anyway!! The husband also has a breakdown when his wife leaves and starts crying saying he can't do anything without her and he won't survive. Back to the lesbian daughter, whos entire character is 'I'm a lesbian who can't find love so I go around banging every other lesbian I can find.' The Asian neighbor who lives across the street with entire Asian family except for the white husband, need to get that mixed race punch card filled. There is yet another scene toward the end with a bunch of
females sitting around male bashing and complaining how unappreciated moms and women are and they do everything and nobody helps them.