Titreenp
SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?
GrimPrecise
I'll tell you why so serious
Jonah Abbott
There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.
Roedy Green
The movie is about two neighbour families who are unusually close. None of the characters is likable. Hugh Laurie plays a father who has an affair with his teenage neighbour. The teenage daughter is an airhead. His own daughter is envious, spiteful and overweight with strangely shaved eyebrows. I could never tell the wives apart. They are both shrill, overreacting and controlling. The other husband is quite obese. He has a charming attachment to electronic gadgets which befuddle him, the source of most of the humour in the movie. Laurie has a handsome son, who is bland as a bowl of Pablum. He studies commerce. The most colourful character is the daughter's dead-beat ex-fiancé who manically tries to woo her back, reminiscent of Benjamin in The Graduate.There is one crazy scene when Laurie's wife drives her car to destroy all his elaborate Christmas decorations, then tries to kill him. Not that much else unexpected happens, except opening a bottle of wine with a preposterously complicated electronic opener.
katemiller-18083
I'm not giving The Oranges an amazing rating out of 10, but it was fine for a Sunday afternoon movie binge. A lot of people are bagging out the premise, but I actually consider it to be a new take on the usual Hollywood BS of an older guy and a younger girl in a relationship. The story typically goes "Older guy falls in love with younger woman and vice versa, and no one really seems to give a crap about the age difference and they live happily ever after". Fortunately, this one is a little more realistic - "Older guy falls in love with younger woman and vice versa, and everyone reacts as you would expect them to - i.e. they freak the s*** out". It's an enjoyable film that is worth the hour and a half.
pc_kerr
I like the adult actors in the movie who give solid performance despite the "piece of crap" lines they were forced to say. Maybe they had bills to pay and this movie just came along. A lightweight at best, actress, Leighton Meester, plays the prodigal daughter who returns home and breaks up the marriage of her parents' best friends. And she manages to break up the friendship between the two couples who have been friends for more than 20 years. It means nothing to her. Whether the aforementioned marriage was "happy" is not the point; it was a marriage and this flighty vapid girl takes down the man/Hugh Laurie like a lion after a wounded gazelle. He's ripe for the picking and she has no sense of decency/morality at all. This movie made my skin crawl; there was nothing funny about it. The vixen feels there are no rules and that's her game in all of this. Take what you want and to hell with the consequences. In fact, she sees people who don't take her side as being prudish, old-fashioned, biased again her youth, etc. The movie is without value. Give it a pass.
Sundogg
I wouldn't call the cast "star studded" but they have all been in enough good movies that I figured this one would be a hit. It was not. It's too depressing to be funny and too funny to be interpreted as realistic. The characters all lack depth which makes them seem reactionary and narcissistic. The chemistry between the Laurie and Meester is awkward at best and completely non-captivating. The humor at times is played out which includes many of the "shockingly crass" barbs that the characters throw at one another. Of course there is a giggle here and there and a clever scene or two but not enough to make it worth watching. Maybe there was too much faith put in the cast to carry the film or too much movie left on the cutting room floor but whatever the problem is this movie doesn't have IT.
