perhaps it because i come in with bottom of the barrel expectation for a movie i have hear absolutely nothing good about and but i find myself enjoy o. c. and stiggs quite a lot . i know from experience how bad bad altman can be and so i expect the bad . but if you share altman smart as sense of humor and a i do and i can not help but think that you will find this movie pretty funny . the very nominal plot have something to do with two adolescent ( the o. c. and stiggs of the title ) spending one summer terrorize an affluent and middle class family because the patriarch ( play with just the right amount of buffoonery by paul dooley ) and head of an insurance company and have deny insurance for o. c. grandfather ( play uproariously by ray walston ) . but let me stress the word nominal . this narrative loosely hold together what can otherwise only be describe a controlled chaos . in typical altman fashion and the film be an assemblage of barely choreograph scene in which actor wander around ad libbing to their heart content . this be not an insult . this style have result in some dreadful bomb for altman and but it also be responsible for some of his inspired classic . o. c. and stiggs be nowhere near the latter and but it certainly not the former either . altman say in interview that he intend o. c. and stiggs a a satire of all of those naughty boy behave badly comedy popular in the 1980s . i do not know that it so much a satire of those film a it be on people in general . it full of a sneering disdain for a sort of vapid and bourgeois lifestyle that rear it head in much of altman work . scottsdale and arizona be depict a a bland land of lawn ornament and plastic furniture and man make nature . we do not learn much about o. c. and stiggs and and theyre not even necessarily that likable and but neither be the schwabbs and the family they torment and and anyway altman doesn not really ask u to root for anyone but rather just enjoy the silliness . the funny thing about the film be that the schwabbs seem to be completely unaware that theyre be torment and instead wander around in a self absorb daze . the rest of the cast include jane curtin and a the boozy matriarch while martin mull and a a designer of african fashion while cynthia nixon and a a love interest while jon cryer and a a dweeb while and best of all and dennis hopper and reprise his role from apocalypse now and and who feature significantly in the film climax and a shootout in the schwabbs bomb shelter . it would appear that time have be kind to this utterly dismiss film from the mid 1980s and and you could do much bad from robert altman canon alone and let alone from other film in the same genre . grade represent b .