Stupid movie pushes boundaries of PG-13.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 26, 2010

[Kasdan] and White aim very low here and fail to take advantage of the abundant opportunities for social satire that its upper class and academic settings provide.

Full Review | Aug 6, 2008

With minimal gross-out quota, Kasdan's sure-footed approach mixes a teen farce and a morality tale.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 30, 2006

The urine-quaffing gags and hearty barfing asides are the lowbrow price extracted for...gestures towards semi-intelligence.

| Jan 26, 2006

Refreshingly, it's not as lowbrow or silly as your typical youth-oriented comedy of late.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 10, 2003

This is mostly weak stuff, with a timid and reactionary final message about how it's better to stay in your home town, rather than go for a big-city college education.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 19, 2002

The script, written by Mike White of Chuck & Buck fame, also has a subversive, satirical vein that sets it apart from the usual roster of dumb-and-dumber romps.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 15, 2002

[T]oo many of these gross out scenes...

Full Review | Jan 24, 2002

Strictly a vanity vehicle with a mess of star babies on board.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jan 22, 2002

One of the smartest idiotic teen comedies you'll ever see.

| Jan 18, 2002

Lessons are learned amid the scatological yucks, profitless cameos (Chevy Chase, Ben Stiller), and Black's graceless mugging.

Full Review | Jan 15, 2002

It's ironic that this movie is about cartoonishly dysfunctional adults, when it is the adults who got it made and contribute the only tolerable moments.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 13, 2002

This one is geared more toward the volleyball players we see early on, leaping and spiking in the sand.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 11, 2002

Full of keenly observed moments of intergenerational embarrassment, as a smarter-than-average teen movie Orange County falls somewhere smack in between Ghost World's depressive cynicism and Teen Movie's gleeful cliche-bashing.

| Jan 11, 2002

This may be the dumbest, sketchiest movie on record about an aspiring writer's coming-of-age.

| Jan 11, 2002

There are laugh-out-loud moments and some well-observed satire, but when the movie tries to get serious, it collapses.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 11, 2002

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.

| Jan 11, 2002

It's not as gross or stupid as a lot of teen comedies. Just really thick-witted.

Full Review | Jan 11, 2002

A modestly surprising movie.

Full Review | Jan 11, 2002

Pale, stale teen comedy with a (lame) message.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jan 11, 2002