Ryan Reynolds’ Underrated Family Comedy Is Dominating on Streaming

A family comedy movie featuring Ryan Reynolds has found considerable success on streaming after reaching a broader audience. Thanks to its strong viewership on Paramount+, IF has managed to rank high on streaming analytics charts. Notably, the film, helmed by John Krasinski, premiered in theaters on May 17, 2024, to mixed critical reception.

Ryan Reynolds’ IF is ranking high on Paramount+’s streaming charts

As of January 16, 2026, Ryan Reynolds’ family comedy movie is doing well on Paramount+.

IF is the #7 movie on the streaming platform, with 70 popularity points on FlixPatrol. It is also ranked either #7 or #6 in several international territories.

Accordingly, the film is outranked by Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (#1, 223 points), The Naked Gun (#2, 163 points), Night Hunter (#3, 137 points), High Ground (#4, 133 points), The Stranger in My Home (#5, 107 points), and World War Z (#6, 83 points). However, it outranks Take Cover (#8, 47 points), Trust (#9, 42 points), and Mean Girls (#10, 40 points).

On Rotten Tomatoes, IF has a Tomatometer score of 57 percent but a robust Popcornmeter score of 85 percent. Meanwhile, Metacritic, which uses a weighted average to determine scores, gave the film a Metascore of 46, based on 39 critical reviews, and a user score of 6.2, drawn from 151 user ratings.

Following its release, IF also grossed $190.5 million worldwide against a reported budget of $110 million. (via Box Office Mojo)

The live-action fantasy comedy follows Bea, a 12-year-old girl who goes to live with her grandmother Margaret in the latter’s apartment while her father goes to the hospital for heart surgery. Her life turns upside down when she realizes one day that she can see imaginary friends of other children.

Bea later meets a man named Cal, also capable of seeing the same imaginary friends. The two subsequently work together to place the friends with new children, as the ones they were originally friends with have grown up and moved on without them.

In addition to directing the film, John Krasinski also wrote the screenplay and co-produced with Ryan Reynolds, Andrew Form, and Allyson Seeger.

The film includes a mix of live-action actors and voice actors. The live-action cast includes Reynolds, Krasinski, Cailey Fleming, Fiona Shaw, Alan Kim, Liza Colón-Zayas, and Bobby Moynihan. Meanwhile, the voice cast includes Steve Carell, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Awkwafina, Emily Blunt, George Clooney, Matt Damon, Bradley Cooper, and Blake Lively.