first off and let me point out that i saw this at a press screening and so i can not be sure i saw the final cut . what i do see and however and be maybe 10 to 15 minute of good movie stuffed in an hour and a half long film . orange county isn not nearly as bad a the majority of teen movie out today and but that isn not a say a lot and that about all there be to say for it . i can sum of the good aspect of this movie in two word represent jack black . he very good at what he do and a kind of goofball in his own world kind of character and and he excel at it here . he steal every scene he in and and perhaps the best scene in the film be between black and ben stiller and in an inexplicable cameo . not to put too fine a point on it and but black reminds me a bit of john belushi not quite the same and but with the same comic mentality . he just need well vehicle than this . colin hank isn not bad and but no one else really shine . i be gon na go ahead and assume that the majority of big name in this film ( catherine ohara and john lithgow and lily tomlin and harold ramis and and say it ain not so kevin kline ) appear a a favor to lawrence kasdan and director jake father . they all seem out of place and especially kline and and ohara over the top caricature of a drunken gold digger be too odd for word . the direction itself be not bad the film move along at a brisk pace and and avoid some of the normal pitfall of the stupid teen comedy cookie cutter . all the same and the story itself border on the utterly ridiculous it be point out to me that the end of the movie work out in such a way that the lead character ( hank ) actually manage to hurt his chance of achieve his dream and largely because certain element of this movie apparently exist in fantasy world and where the right choice be always the one accompany by cheap sentimentality . this be a shame and because with a little work and a different end and this actually could have turn out to be an interesting film .