Oh. What. Fun. (2025)

Jack and I had some laughs with this light and fluffy Christmas movie which we chose partly because of Denis Leary and partly because we wanted a comedy. Michelle Pfeiffer's Claire is a boomer #tradwife of Leary's Nick who arranges every Christmas detail for her family, but they all take her for granted. Untrue to form, Leary plays a character who is not snarky. The cast includes Felicity Jones as their grown daughter Channing, Jason Schwartzman as Channing's husband Doug, Chloe Grace Moretz as Channing's sister Taylor, and Eva Longoria as Claire's TV idol Zazzy. Danielle Brooks and Devery Jacobs make solid cameos.

Director Michael Showalter co-wrote the script with Chandler Baker. The soundtrack is by Siddhartha Khosla but, although he's a prolific composer, his score is not available for streaming. The songs in the movie are, however.

Leary was last blogged for Draft Day, Pfeiffer for French Exit, Jones for The Brutalist, Schwartzman for The Last Showgirl, Moretz for The Addams Family, Brooks for The Color Purple, and Showalter and Khosla for The Idea of You.

Longoria is best known for 180 episodes for Desperate Housewives from 2004-2012, but has dozens of other credits and I gave her short shrift for her cameo in In a World... We both loved Jacobs in all 25 episodes of Reservation Dogs and lawyer/novelist Baker makes her screenwriting debut.

I'm glad we enjoyed this movie before checking it on Rotten Tomatoes, where the critics and audiences scrooged it (yeah, I know it's not a word) with averages of 35 and 27% respectively. We streamed it on December 10 on Prime.