Anyway Oh. What. Fun. gets its title from a holiday song we all know well. Too bad there's little holiday cheer when actors Denis Leary, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Felicity Jones seem to be slumming it for a paycheck as their characters come off like total schlubs. Add to the fact that the freaking flick takes place in Texas when with the snow coming down looks like Central Ohio.
Oh. What. Fun., well it appears as something the troupers had fun making but we as an audience didn't have fun watching. Personas don't act anything like normal human beings would act. Comedic or dramatic scenes flop and die in the wind like goldfish with expiration dates. Cameos involving Eva Longoria as a talk show host and Joan Chen as a nosy neighbor don't quite develop. Basically Oh. What. Fun. is a cinematic turkey with dressing (duh, it's Christmas), a stinker that could never be saved even with feel-good ditties by Michael McDonald and Donna Summer on the almighty soundtrack. "Let's just all take a deep breath and go to a happy place." I wish I could boss. I wish I could.
Distributed by Prime Video and directed by a dude who actually got critical acclaim back in the day (The Big Sick's Michael Showalter), Oh. What. Fun. is about housewife Claire (Michelle Pfeiffer mentioned earlier) getting left behind by her family to go to a Christmas dance show. What does Claire do? Well she gets in her car and drives to Cali, ticked off at her brood for sadly neglecting her. Claire eventually goes on TV to compete in a festive Mom contest. Yeah there's a lot of capers going on here and a lot of painful eye-rolling too. "Oh snapped."
Written by Jesse Burleson
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