{"id":12513,"date":"2025-07-11T23:21:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T03:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/?p=12513"},"modified":"2025-09-05T15:22:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T19:22:09","slug":"oh-hi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/2025\/07\/11\/oh-hi\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh, Hi!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Oh, Hi!<\/strong> (2025)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sony Pictures Classics\/Comedy\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 94 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (sexual content, some nudity, language)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Sophie Brooks\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Sophie Brooks\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Steven Price\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Conor Murphy\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: July 25, 2025 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Molly Gordon, Logan Lerman, Geraldine Viswanathan, John Reynolds, David Cross, Polly Draper.<\/p>\n

Rating<\/strong>: ** \u00bd<\/p>\n

\u00a0Indie rom-coms are a breed unto themselves. They\u2019re nothing like the Tom Hanks-Meg Ryan romps that were popular in the 90s. They\u2019re usually anything but conventional. Look at last month\u2019s Materialists. It had rom, but very little com. Call me crazy, but I don\u2019t find anything funny about sexual assault. Now we\u2019ve got Oh, Hi!<\/strong>, a twisted romance about a young woman who doesn\u2019t take rejection very well. Think of Misery without the sledge hammer.<\/p>\n

\u00a0What starts off as a romantic getaway turns into a nightmare when the guy says something the girl doesn\u2019t want to hear. Iris (Gordon, Good Boys) and Isaac (Lerman, The Perks of Being a Wallflower) have been going together for four months. They decide to take a weekend trip to a secluded house in the country. It starts off great. They have sex, go swimming, relax outside and talk about their likes and dislikes. He makes dinner for her, scallops. They retire to the bedroom for more sex, this time involving light bondage. Isaac allows Iris to cuff him to the bed, hand and foot. That\u2019s when things go south.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Iris makes an offhand comment about them being a couple. This is when Isaac (unwisely as it turns out) chooses to inform her that he\u2019s not looking to be in a relationship right now. It does not go over well with Iris who, it turns out, isn\u2019t exactly stable. She refuses to unlock the cuffs. Instead, she decides to try and change his mind. Talk about a captive audience.<\/p>\n

\u201cDUDE, YOU REALLY NEED TO WORK ON YOUR TIMING!\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the thought that was running through my mind throughout Oh, Hi! <\/strong>Who drops a bombshell like that while in a vulnerable position? This chick isn\u2019t playing with a full deck. Now he\u2019s potentially screwed. And this is the precise point of Oh, Hi! <\/strong>We\u2019ve all been in relationships where we misread the situation and learn the other person doesn\u2019t have the same feelings for us. It hurts (a lot), but it\u2019s part of the game. Some people handle rejection better than others. Most just shake it off and move on. Others, not so much. Then there\u2019s Iris, a walking worst case scenario if ever there was one.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Oh, Hi! <\/strong>has an intriguing premise, as you can see, but writer-director Sophie Brooks (The Boy Downstairs) doesn\u2019t take it anywhere interesting. It has great dark comic potential and Brooks sees it. This is where the problem lies. She tries too hard to be truly edgy which results in a movie that\u2019s noticeably self-conscious. A lot of the time, the comedy feels forced, especially with the addition of two more characters, Iris\u2019 friend Max (Viswanathan, Drive-Away Dolls) and her annoyingly amiable boyfriend Kenny (Reynolds, Four Weddings and a Funeral). Is he even necessary? If Brooks had the courage to go there, she could have eliminated his character altogether.<\/p>\n

\u00a0This brings me to my next point about Oh, Hi! <\/strong>Brooks wants to be edgy, but seems afraid to go where most rom-coms won\u2019t. Take the ending. It\u2019s too simple and neat. A situation like the one depicted here shouldn\u2019t have an easy resolution. That should be reserved for mainstream rom-coms. SPOILER ALERT! <\/strong>Here, somebody misquotes a famous line from Casablanca before the cut to black. Uh, okay. That\u2019s it? I think Brooks could have done better.<\/p>\n

\u00a0The performances in Oh, Hi!<\/strong>, while by no means terrible, are underwhelming. I commented to more than one person that Iris makes my ex-wife look like a completely rational person. She has this quiet calm about her as she engages in criminal activity, namely kidnapping and false imprisonment. She doesn\u2019t even flinch when she considers giving him a head injury in an attempt to cause amnesia. Gordon does a decent job of portraying an unstable woman who doesn\u2019t come off as especially dangerous. I never felt like Isaac was in any real jeopardy. In the role, Lerman is okay. He doesn\u2019t leave much of a lasting impression. I saw no chemistry between the actors or their characters which leads me to wonder why Iris wanted to continue the relationship. It\u2019s never explained, but I suspect it\u2019s loneliness on her part. How many of us have stayed in a relationship because they don\u2019t want to be alone?<\/p>\n

\u00a0The best performance in Oh, Hi!<\/strong> comes from Viswanathan. I like her. She has a dry wit about her. Her character here is interesting unlike the two leads. She\u2019s the one who comes up with the idea of using a magic spell to make Isaac forget everything that happened. Reynolds is just annoying.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Here\u2019s the thing. I don\u2019t hate Oh, Hi!<\/strong> It\u2019s not bad; it\u2019s just flawed. It could have been so much better. As it stands, it\u2019s an interesting watch. It\u2019s just not as darkly funny as it should be. Brooks should have gone darker and thrown some farce into the mix. That would have made it more memorable than it is in its present form. It\u2019s frustrating that it\u2019s all right there and Brooks doesn\u2019t jump on it. However, you can see she has talent so maybe she\u2019ll get it right next time. We\u2019ll see.\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oh, Hi! (2025)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sony Pictures Classics\/Comedy\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 94 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (sexual content, some nudity, language)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Sophie Brooks\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Sophie Brooks\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Steven Price\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Conor Murphy\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: July 25, 2025 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Molly Gordon, Logan Lerman, Geraldine Viswanathan, John Reynolds, David Cross, Polly Draper. Rating: ** \u00bd \u00a0Indie rom-coms are a breed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12529,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-comedies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Oh-Hi-POSTER.jpg?fit=620%2C918&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12513"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12532,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12513\/revisions\/12532"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}