Oh. What. Fun.
Amazon Prime Video | Release Date (Streaming): December 3, 2025 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
38
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 12 Critic Reviews
Positive:
1
Mixed:
8
Negative:
3

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
79
TheWrapWilliam BibbianiDec 3, 2025
There are no small parts in a Michael Showalter movie. Every actor is a star when they’re on camera. Read full review
60
ColliderDavid CaballeroDec 2, 2025
Michelle Pfeiffer is reason alone to watch 'Oh. What. Fun.' even if the film never fully reaches its potential. Read full review
50
The Associated PressLindsey BahrDec 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. Read full review
50
RogerEbert.comNell MinowDec 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. Read full review
50
LooperAkos PeterbenczeDec 2, 2025
To put it simply: it's just another Christmas flick with an artificial heart — if it even has one at all. Read full review
45
The Daily BeastNick SchagerDec 2, 2025
The charismatic Pfeiffer deserves much, much better than this soggy stocking stuffer. Read full review
40
The TimesKevin MaherDec 12, 2025
You know that your comedy is in crisis when you’ve substituted actual jokes for the grating rhythms of an oompah band. Still, Pfeiffer remains charismatic till the end. She deserved better. Read full review
40
The GuardianBenjamin LeeDec 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. Read full review
40
The Hollywood ReporterAngie HanDec 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. Read full review
30
VarietyCourtney HowardDec 12, 2025
Director Michael Showalter’s yuletide anthem for unheralded matriarchs fumbles severely, delivering bland comedic hijinks, insufferable characters and generic conundrums. Read full review
30
The Travers TakePeter TraversDec 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. Read full review
16
The A.V. ClubJacob OllerDec 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. Read full review
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