Love the Coopers

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Don H I loved this movie!! Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 11/11/25 Full Review Marlene S I found this to be exactly what I look for in a “Christmas movie”. During the wonderful, busy holiday season, I want to sit down at night in front of a roaring fire with a glass of wine and a big bowl of popcorn and watch another family go through the joys and angst and disappointments of yet another Christmas. I already know the general gist before the movie begins. It’s going to be (hopefully) a story about a typical big boisterous family who are dysfunctional (we ALL have dysfunctional families!) but still deep down love the idea of belonging to a group of people we share blood and histories with, no matter how crazy or imperfect we are. I want to see all kinds of houses decorated to the hilt with twinkling lights everywhere and big, garish Christmas trees and lovely warm kitchens full of exquisitely decorated Christmas cookies. Ideally, the main house that the family gathers in will have a large, friendly, rambunctious dog wearing a large red bow around his neck and gobbling food off of half the family’s plates. Every person in this family will have their own story. Stories of divorces, losing jobs, petty resentments from their childhoods that they still carry. And the snow! My favorite Christmas movie MUST have gorgeous snowy scenes. Lots of shots outdoors at night when snow is falling and we see their small town with red bows and decorated with lights of every color and that look inviting and cozy. There will definitely be family conflict but the wonderful thing about a good Christmas movie is that everyone realizes by Christmas night that despite their differences and disagreements, they all have what’s most important in this life, namely, a group of people who love one another. The message is timeless and universal and will be true for eternity. So watching a Christmas movie is soothing and comforting to me. I don’t need big surprises or unexpected plot twists. I crave comfort and reminders that we all, every single person on this planet, want basically the same thing: LOVE. It’s almost like walking around your neighborhood at night in December and seeing other families in their windows and wondering what life is like at their house. I think we’re all a little curious (nosey, if you will) about what goes on at other people’s homes during the holidays. And so Christmas movies sort of fulfill that desire. So was this the most astounding movie I’ve ever watched? No. But did it entertain and calm and amuse and touch my heart and make me feel grateful for my own family? Yes! I loved it and recommend it. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 11/10/25 Full Review Logan G. Love the Coopers is one of my favorite holiday movies in the past 15 years. It has a great cast, funny moments, and I like the setup with all these different seemingly unrelated people all tied together. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 10/23/25 Full Review Keith A How did I suffer through this entire film? This was aweful. Completely unlikeable characters aside from John Goodman's character and as unfunny as it get. I love Steve Martin but I don't need to be spoon fed narration and to reveal it's from the viewpoint of (SPOILER) was completely unnecessary and ridiculous. Do NOT waste your time. Diane Keaton deserved a much better character than she got in this film. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 10/16/25 Full Review Blu B Wow....even as bad Christmas movies go...this is BAD. Like I think it's trying to go for something like a Love Actually or The Holiday but just can't in the slightest figure out what makes those movies work so much better. The editing is terrible. We bounce around between it feels like 5-6 subplots (idk what the actual number is) and it never feels like they tie together at all. Each are dealing with problems and mostly romance related so it gets repetitive. This is trying to be a Christmas movie with a Romcom and just never makes it work. You could remove any one of these stories and nothing changes at all. The pacing is terrible too. When this isn't throwing terrible humor your way, it's tugging on the heartstrings to make up for a lack of any substance. So it feels terribly unearned because of how poorly done it is and how none of the characters resonate. The music is boring, generic, and forgettable too even the Christmas sounding stuff is just flat. Everything else isn't good. This is an ALL STAR cast...how the heck do you make none of them stand out. Especially Seyfried who is so flat and emotionless at times. It's got nothing going for it really at all. The dog narrating also is completely pointless too. This tries adding them all together for Christmas in the end Altman style but it just doesn't work at all and somehow despite keeping them together it still jumps around just as badly. Than it just ends all happy go lucky. Skip This. Terrible Romcom, Terrible Christmas Movie. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 07/28/25 Full Review Raccoon T This was a very interesting movie. I did not watch it just for Timothée Chalamet...definity not. It encompasses a family and all the struggles of being in one. It was a great Christmas movie though and I did enjoy it. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 03/03/25 Full Review Read all reviews

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