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NUMBERS
Box Office: $41,032,915
VHS Rentals: $12,670,000
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CONSENSUS
Smarter than the average teen movie, but a little on the unmemorable side.
CAST & CREW
Colin Hanks, Jack Black, Leslie Mann
Directed by Jake Kasdan
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SYNOPSIS
ORANGE COUNTY is a teen comedy that, along with goofy lowbrow fun, offers a surprising amount of wit and heart. more...
MPAA RATING
PG-13, drug content, language, and sexuality
RUNTIME
82 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Jan 11, 2002
Video: Jun 18, 2002
RELEASE COMPANY
Paramount Pictures
GENRE
Comedies, Teenage
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official Orange County Site
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PARENTS EVALUATION
TRAILER & MEDIA
PHOTOS
TIDBITS
NEWS ARTICLES
SUBMIT/EDIT ARTICLE
SUBMIT USER REVIEW
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 "A thoroughly enjoyable, heartfelt coming-of-age comedy."
-- Staci Layne Wilson, FANTASTICA DAILY
 "Those eternally devoted to the insanity of Black will have an intermittently good time. Feel free to go get popcorn whenever he’s not onscreen."
-- Scott Weinberg, APOLLO GUIDE
"Engages us in constant fits of laughter, until we find ourselves surprised at how much we care about the story, and end up walking out not only satisfied but also somewhat touched."
-- Ian Waldron-Mantgani, UK CRITIC
"This is a breath of fresh air and it rattles along at a zippy pace with change from an hour and a half, just as every good comedy should."
-- Urban Cinefile Critics, URBAN CINEFILE
"The film tries too hard to be funny and tries too hard to be hip. The end result is a film that's neither."
-- Tony Toscano, TALKING PICTURES
"Smarter than its commercials make it seem."
-- Gary Thompson, PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS
"A distinctly mixed bag, the occasional bursts of sharp writing alternating with lots of sloppiness and the obligatory moments of sentimental ooze."
-- Frank Swietek, ONE GUY'S OPINION
"The performances are amiable and committed, and the comedy more often than not hits the bullseye."
-- Eric D. Snider, ERICDSNIDER.COM
"About one in three gags in White's intermittently wise script hits its mark; the rest are padding unashamedly appropriated from the teen-exploitation playbook."
-- Steve Schneider, ORLANDO WEEKLY
"Although it includes a fair share of dumb drug jokes and predictable slapstick, "Orange County" is far funnier than it would seem to have any right to be."
-- James Sanford, KALAMAZOO GAZETTE
"This extremely unfunny film clocks in at 80 minutes, but feels twice as long."
-- Paul Salfen, SUPERCALA.COM
"As teen movies go, “Orange County” is a refreshing change"
-- Audrey Rock-Richardson, TOOELE TRANSCRIPT-BULLETIN (UTAH)
"With little visible talent and no energy, Colin Hanks is in bad need of major acting lessons and maybe a little coffee."
-- Steve Rhodes, STEVE RHODES' INTERNET REVIEWS
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"Wonder of wonders -- a teen movie with a humanistic message."
-- Betty Jo Tucker, REELTALK MOVIE REVIEWS
"Has no reason to exist, other than to employ Hollywood kids and people who owe favors to their famous parents."
-- Lawrence Toppman, CHARLOTTE OBSERVER
"The gags, and the script, are a mixed bag."
-- Luke Y. Thompson, NEW TIMES
"Much like its easily dismissive take on the upscale lifestyle, there isn't much there here."
-- Bob Strauss, LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS
"Just an average comedic dateflick but not a waste of time."
-- Chuck Schwartz, CRANKY CRITIC®
"The essential problem in Orange County is that, having created an unusually vivid set of characters worthy of its strong cast, the film flounders when it comes to giving them something to do."
-- Charles Savage, MIAMI HERALD
"A potentially good comic premise and excellent cast are terribly wasted."
-- Tom Sander, SOUTH FLORIDA SUN-SENTINEL
"'Orange County," happily, is an exception to the rule. It is a better-written, better directed version of the genre with few raunchy jokes."
-- Robert Roten, LARAMIE MOVIE SCOPE
"This Orange has some juice, but it's far from fresh-squeezed."
-- James Rocchi, NETFLIX
"The only thing I laughed at were the people who paid to see it."
-- Mark Ramsey, MOVIEJUICE!
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ROTTEN 44%
Avg. Rating: 5.4/10 |
"A piece of mildly entertaining, inoffensive fluff that drifts aimlessly for 90 minutes before lodging in the cracks of that ever-growing category: unembarrassing but unmemorable."
-- Stephanie Zacharek, SALON.COM
"A deft script by Mike White ... elevates the usual teen twaddle by grounding the laughs in feeling."
-- Peter Travers, ROLLING STONE
"Barrels along at the start before becoming mired in sentimentality."
-- Kevin Thomas, LOS ANGELES TIMES
"A refreshing change from the usual whoopee-cushion effort aimed at the youth market."
-- Jane Sumner, DALLAS MORNING NEWS
"Young Hanks and Fisk, who vaguely resemble their celebrity parents, bring fresh good looks and an ease in front of the camera to the work."
-- Susan Stark, DETROIT NEWS
"A modestly surprising movie."
-- Gene Seymour, NEWSDAY
"Feels like six different movies fighting each other for attention."
-- A.O. Scott, NEW YORK TIMES
"Arriving amid the traditionally withered harvest of January releases, Orange County is peachy."
-- Lisa Schwarzbaum, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
"Not since Tom Cruise in Risky Business has an actor made such a strong impression in his underwear."
-- Steven Rosen, DENVER POST
"[T]oo many of these gross out scenes..."
-- Richard Roeper, EBERT & ROEPER
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"This may be the dumbest, sketchiest movie on record about an aspiring writer's coming-of-age."
-- Mark Rahner, SEATTLE TIMES
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* Who are the Approved Tomatometer Critics?
* Mouse over a tomato icon for a publication's original rating. Original rating not available for every publication.
* In fairness to critics whose last name begins with a letter at the end of the alphabet, certain pages are sorted in reverse order, z-a.
* Certain "Orange County" article data provided by the Movie Review Query Engine.
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