What is a fun movie?
If you know, you know.
If you don't — you know that feeling when a movie has 98% on Rotten Tomatoes, everyone's raving about it, you press play… and an hour in you're checking your phone? Or you fall asleep and never bother finishing it? Or you white-knuckle your way through to the end and sit there thinking, that's it?
That's the gap this site exists to fix.
It's not about being a comedy
Funny helps. Funny isn't required. The Departed is fun. John Wick is fun. Shawshankis fun — yes, really, because he escapes, and the whole movie was building to that. A fun movie can be dark, violent, tense, emotional. What it can't be is a slog.
It's not about being good
Plenty of critically acclaimed movies are not fun. Plenty of critically dismissed movies are. The Oscars don't hand out Fun Scores. That's our job.
It IS about the feeling at the end
Did the movie earn your time? Did the ending land? Were you gripped, charmed, satisfied, entertained? Did you text someone to tell them to watch it?
That's fun.
What ISN'T fun, on this site
- Movies that crush you and leave you there
- Movies that feel like homework
- Movies that beat a message to death
- Movies where the director clearly cared more about being important than being watched
- Movies that drag
- Movies that end on a shrug
Those movies can be brilliant. They can win every award in the world. They just don't belong here.
The Fun Score
Every movie on the site gets a score from 0 to 100.
100means it's one of the most fun movies ever made.
0means it's the opposite of fun.
The score starts as our call, refined by yours. Cast a vote on any movie page. Enough votes, and your take starts to outweigh ours. That's the point.
Who decides what “fun” means?
We do. You do. It's subjective, and that's the whole charm. Argue with us. Vote against the grain. Tell your friends we're wrong about Pulp Fiction. That's the site working as intended.
Find something that's actually fun to watch tonight.
Pull up a seat.