Orange County
| Year: | 2002 |
| Director: | Jake Kasdan |
| Cast: | Colin Hanks, Jack Black, John Lithgow, Cathgerine O'Hara, Chevy Chase, Harold Ramis |
Produced by MTV and populated with Saturday Night Live alumnus, you could be forgiven for thinking this is going to be a frenetic, rock video-style comedy with a laugh a minute.
You'd be wrong. It's a fairly robust idea – a teenager from the beaches of LA wants to be a writer, so thinks he has to go to Stanford university. The rest of the movie deals with him trying to get accepted, thwarted at every turn by a dysfunctional family, who he's happened to write about.
The emotions of the movie are a mess, trying to be serious when you wish it would get funny, nothing but plaid stupidity when you wish it would say something. There are a handful of reasonably funny lines but the characters, their relationships and the plotting are all a mess. You know it's a bad film when even Jack Black isn't funny in it.
You'd be wrong. It's a fairly robust idea – a teenager from the beaches of LA wants to be a writer, so thinks he has to go to Stanford university. The rest of the movie deals with him trying to get accepted, thwarted at every turn by a dysfunctional family, who he's happened to write about.
The emotions of the movie are a mess, trying to be serious when you wish it would get funny, nothing but plaid stupidity when you wish it would say something. There are a handful of reasonably funny lines but the characters, their relationships and the plotting are all a mess. You know it's a bad film when even Jack Black isn't funny in it.