Happiest Season

I am but a simple girl. I see gay, I click. Also Aubrey Plaza is one of my top celebrity crushes, so she was probably the driving force for me watching this. Other than the obvious pandering with Kristen Stewart (Lord of The Gays), there;s not too much to write home about. All of the acting is pretty good, especially Mackenzie Davis. I thought her character was maybe robbed a little bit by having Kristen Stewart being the main character. The story could've been written better, bot not too bad.

Trash, but it's gay trash so I like it a lil more. It's predictably safe and heteronormative and toxic for the first major gay Christmas movie. Important culturally but insipid cinematically. The main relationship gets warm fuzzy points for working out in the end, but goddamn is that a toxic relationship.

Had a thoroughly good time with this while acknowledging that it doesn't tread new ground. Everything was pretty competently done, but the main reason this is entertaining is because watching the cast interact is really charming--specifically Plaza, Brie and Stewart (Davis is fine, it's just that her character is a dink). Levy is also a joy.

There’s a lot of good in this movie and it’s very funny and filled with great performances but god damn fuck Harper and Sloane, absolute pieces of shit, Abby should have ran off with Aubrey Plaza

A few years ago, I couldn't understand the appeal of Kristen Stewart. Then I saw "Certain Women". Now I am all on board the Stewart train. Toot toot. It's always a great sign when you realize you'd rather the protagonist end up with the other woman.

A cherry Christmas romcom. Everything wraps up a little to quickly and neatly to give us a perfect happy ending. But I got to give it props for for really only having one moment that's drama and miscommunication for drama's sake. The movie takes a little to find it's footing, and every side character is way more interesting and better with Kristin Stewart than Mackenzie Davis. But I laughed and had fun and Dan Levy's speech made me feel things deeply at 1am. Good Streaming Service Quality

Kristen Stewart deserves better than Mackenzie Davis and I'm unhappy that the film wraps up neatly. Aubrey Plaza was a better match who we invested time into. The whole thing felt like a liberal utopia ---wealthy WASPs with multicolor friends/community; worries about traditional parents who end up quickly accepting them and learning from the experience. It just made the worry/conflict very superficial and unnecessary. Fav scene: heartfelt Dan Levy explaining different coming out experiences.

A christmas romcom so competent, likable and unsurprising it'll make you wish there really was a gay agenda out to destroy the perfect American nuclear family.

Surprisingly fun.

I loved most of the film but the ending was way too perfect and kind of ruined it for me. The dad even won the election, yay!

People like Jane should be protected at all cost.

Bland and inoffensive. A functional brain enema for the winter time.

Not bad at all and with a great cast, but for some reason it takes the risk of making one half of the romantic couple into such a jerk that you'll find yourself questioning whether they shouldn't just break up.

There are certainly well-trodden elements here, but the cast and pacing are good, the sentiment is sincere, and there are a few solid laughs. In a world of lousy Christmas movies, Happiest Season is a notch above.

abby should be with riley, you guys

GET OUT, GIRL. Fiquei com muito ódio daquele final feliz, fuja com a Aubrey Plaza e corra dessa família cagada. TV aberta.

Couldn’t get through this one…not worth the hype

Why shouldn't queer romcoms have the right to be toxic as well? Damn, I love Mackenzie Davis, but her character is just completely terrible. Every scene I was like: Abby, run! Run away with Aubrey Plaza, please. Also, Dan Levy's character was right on most everything (except the fish), especially marriage. Justice for Jane!

I really liked this! Kristen Stewart and Mackenzie David are great in this, as is the rest of the cast. I think it's really cool to see a christmas romcom from an angle I haven't really seen before, so it felt fresh to me. I think the characters are all great, and it's not common for a movie to get me teary, but somehow the conclusion to this movie did accomplish that. I could easily see myself watching this again. I've heard they may be making a sequel and I look forward to it if so!

Brie, Stewart and Plaza it’s like 2013 white girl queer tumblr reunion

Is the Mackenzie Davies character supposed to be the biggest bitch in the history of cinema for no reason except like her dad is a little mean? Seeing Brie now as a stuck up mom figure instead of what she played when she was younger is aging me.

This movie just didn't work for me. The main relationship has so many issues that the ending kind of pissed me off.

The LGBT representation in the genre is great but a broad, unspectacular rom-com is still a broad, unspectacular rom-com regardless. The leads at least try their best and Dan Levy is good value.

Expanding the holiday movie tent is great, but it’s too nonsensical and the change of heart too convenient, even by romcom standards. Not a good sign when the heroine has far better chemistry with the obviously planted romantic rival. Don’t even consider marrying someone who lies to you!

Am I the only one who can't take Mackenzie Davis' ridiculously strong Canadian accent seriously? It cracks me up in every film she's in.

#20-12#, exp3, rw3, story, ratings, actresses

K-Stew deserved better, so does her character in this movie.

She should have ended up with Aubrey Plaza.

Kristen Stewart'in başrolünde olduğu 1 gay filmi. Christmas arifesinde ailesinin yanına birlikte giden lezbiyen çiftimiz, ailelerine konuyu açmaya çalışacaklardır. Fakat baba, belediye meclis üyesidir. Zorda kalma durumları. Yıldırma politikaları ve dışlanma. Romantik bunaltıcı komedi. Kristen Stewart iyi. İlgiyle izleniyor. Filmin sonunda, kaos ve barış var. Evin annesine de 1 çift sözüm var. Senin saçını başını yolarım kadın.

I have mixed feelings. The cast is stellar, the performances are great- Dan Levy steals the show- & the overall message is fine. I related more than I like to Harper's family situation. Davis & Stewart have solid chemistry, & seeing them together was neat as a big fan of both. Still, the tone is a little messy & resolution a bit too Hallmark, & the sheer number of generic tropes it falls back on was a bit much for me. It's fun, fresh, & has its moments, but I'd hesitate to call it a classic.

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Kristen Stewart is great. Terrific casting and very watchable, but the premise and some of the plot points feel dated. Imagine not being out in 2020.

There was a long period in the second half that I thought the movie had totally lost me with how thoroughly unlikable Harper and her family were but somehow writer-director Clea Duvall managed to reel me back in. (I can't figure out what she did to get me to like the movie again.) This is an unusually competent Christmas rom-com with a likable cast, worth a watch even if you don't like such fare.

Despite a strong cast, Happiest Season is both generic & annoying. Rather than cover any interesting territory, DuVall decides that closet comedy & sibling rivalry are enough to make the film entertaining. While I normally enjoy light-hearted RomComs, not only could I not get into this one, but the ending whereby all it takes to instantly fix everything is the realisation of bad parenting & mistakes made; the film is moronic. Davis is bad. Levy is intolerable. Stewart & Plaza are decent.

Sweet and sometimes funny, but undermined by the fact that Mackenzie Davis' character is so damn unlikable. All the crap she put poor Kristen Stewart through, I was rooting so hard against the inevitable ‘happy' ending that the film was soured a little. Not bad if it's time though, with fun support by Plaza and Levy.