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Well it's Christmas time, and since I keep making poor life decisions I've decided to review two recently released Christmas films this year.
First off we have Oh. What. Fun. which is titled that way in order to gaslight you into believing that this film was fun to watch.
Oh. What. Fun is a 2025 film directed by Michael Showalter, who also wrote the script for this film alongside Chandler Baker, who is the writer behind the short story that this is based on.
The film is about a mother named Claire who goes on a wild holiday adventure after feeling underappreciated. By wild holiday adventure I mean a trip to California and by feeling underappreciated I actually mean being a petty bitch who leaves her equally dull family behind.
If you can't tell already, I don't like this film. I found it very annoying to sit through mostly thanks to the either dull as shit characters or the heavy handed writing that smacks the likability of these dull as shit characters into oblivion.
I'm not rooting for anyone here, which granted isn't inherently a bad thing, but I'm also not watching them be entertaining either.
They're not funny, which would help, they're also not relatable, they have far too personality for that. So…this is a film where I'm sitting there, not laughing, not rooting for anyone, and not being entertained.
Look there's really not much else to say. I don't want to keep reviewing this so I won't.
Now for the film with Charlie Cox.
Merv is a 2025 romance film that was directed by Jessica Swale. It's a boring mess of a film that was only funny when Charlie Cox was onscreen because to be blunt, it's really hard not to see him as Daredevil in everything he's in.
That can't really be a criticism of the film though, so I'll put it as bluntly as possible.
When I wasn't bored, I was just dulled by the weak ass writing, and dull, flavorless story.
I really don't want to dig deep into this film, because honestly, it's not worth it.
Well that's the end of this Christmas special I guess. Maybe I ought to ban myself from any more romance films cause I seem to not enjoy them.
That's all folks.
First off we have Oh. What. Fun. which is titled that way in order to gaslight you into believing that this film was fun to watch.
Oh. What. Fun is a 2025 film directed by Michael Showalter, who also wrote the script for this film alongside Chandler Baker, who is the writer behind the short story that this is based on.
The film is about a mother named Claire who goes on a wild holiday adventure after feeling underappreciated. By wild holiday adventure I mean a trip to California and by feeling underappreciated I actually mean being a petty bitch who leaves her equally dull family behind.
If you can't tell already, I don't like this film. I found it very annoying to sit through mostly thanks to the either dull as shit characters or the heavy handed writing that smacks the likability of these dull as shit characters into oblivion.
I'm not rooting for anyone here, which granted isn't inherently a bad thing, but I'm also not watching them be entertaining either.
They're not funny, which would help, they're also not relatable, they have far too personality for that. So…this is a film where I'm sitting there, not laughing, not rooting for anyone, and not being entertained.
Look there's really not much else to say. I don't want to keep reviewing this so I won't.
Now for the film with Charlie Cox.
Merv is a 2025 romance film that was directed by Jessica Swale. It's a boring mess of a film that was only funny when Charlie Cox was onscreen because to be blunt, it's really hard not to see him as Daredevil in everything he's in.
That can't really be a criticism of the film though, so I'll put it as bluntly as possible.
When I wasn't bored, I was just dulled by the weak ass writing, and dull, flavorless story.
I really don't want to dig deep into this film, because honestly, it's not worth it.
Well that's the end of this Christmas special I guess. Maybe I ought to ban myself from any more romance films cause I seem to not enjoy them.
That's all folks.