Review – Orange County

Life is hard on upper middle class white boys, especially when they don’t get into Stanford because their dingbat guidance counselor mixes up their standardized test results. Actually, that’s the point at which life gets hard for the audience. Because when our youthful protagonist – an aspiring writer, no less – loses his bid for the college of his choice the wacky antics ensue. And with screwball divorcee parents, druggie older brother and oddball friends, you can bet those antics are going to be pretty wacky. Actually, to be fair some of the gags work on a small scale. But for the most part this is an MTV production with all the limitations on audience demographics thereby implied. Mildly amusing