I was stuck on a 21 hour flight with a choice of 10 movies: Orange County, Shipping News, Charlotte Gray, Hart's War, My Life as A House, My Baby is Dying of Cancer (or something like that), some movie about a miner's wife; two Chinese action flicks and an utterly uncomprehensible Indian film......Suffice to say I wound-up watching Orange County six times on that flight.
This may not sound like a rining endorsement. However, had I not been forced to watch that movie, I would have ignored it on cable and on video. The trailers made it out to be some type of horny teenager movie and the cable-tv ads made it seem like Jack Black does a low-budget Tom Green.
What does this mean? Well, the movie is more entertaining than the marketing campaign makes you believe. There are some truly funny moments - the wrong candidate getting into Stanford ("Dude, I didn't even apply...this is scary man"); the stoned Dean of Admissions spouting statistical babble ("you are right, 92%......"); the Stanford girls shrieking over a then-popular rap song.
Not a reat movie.....but it does have it moments. Plus the soundtrack is really good!
This may not sound like a rining endorsement. However, had I not been forced to watch that movie, I would have ignored it on cable and on video. The trailers made it out to be some type of horny teenager movie and the cable-tv ads made it seem like Jack Black does a low-budget Tom Green.
What does this mean? Well, the movie is more entertaining than the marketing campaign makes you believe. There are some truly funny moments - the wrong candidate getting into Stanford ("Dude, I didn't even apply...this is scary man"); the stoned Dean of Admissions spouting statistical babble ("you are right, 92%......"); the Stanford girls shrieking over a then-popular rap song.
Not a reat movie.....but it does have it moments. Plus the soundtrack is really good!