The Oranges (2011)

Boring, over-political, tech fuzed mess

A Masterpiece!

n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

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.

This movie is one of the best examples of,"If it's not on the page... it's not on the stage." Kudos to the casting director to be able to collect such a strong cast. The script is weak, at best, and it is no less than miraculous it was sufficient to get "yeses". Either a large number of favors were pulled in, or perhaps a truly brilliant strategy of leveraging the first to get the second and third etc. However, despite the skills and experience of the cast (at least the elder statesman) watching the film is an endless series of cringing, from one awkward and unfunny sentence to the next.I consider the film unwatchable, but gave it 3 out of 10 because it has value as a teaching film because the script is so many levels beneath the cast.

I thoroughly enjoyed this film. From early on, you get a feel for the mood, but you're very unsure of how it will end.The dynamic between all of the characters is quite realistic for people in such a peculiar situation. You learn to care about them in all their wrong doing. At times, you want to bash all of them over the head, but by the end of the film it comes around full circle. It was fun to see Hugh Laurie as a sad sack, and Catherine Keener with the tough exterior. To me, this role isn't much different from any other of Leighton's films, but she was fine nonetheless.If you go into the film expecting a cute romantic comedy with some drama, think deeper. It has wit, and drama, but not as much one on one romance. It's more about the relationships people have with everyone in their lives and how delicate each one truly is for its own reasons.

Some people might find this movie tasteless. Probably because the tag line is "SEX. BETRAYAL. SCANDAL" which was kinda misleading people to see the movie through that glasses. only to find that they felt uncomfortable watching the romance between a 24 years old girl and a man which was her father's best friend. the movie is more than that, it's actually about two family dealing with this kind of conflict and finding happiness. it's about what you really wanted in life that will makes you happy. only they put it in a more complex situation. and i don't like the jokes (on/from?) Ethan's part. it felt kinda dry. he shouldn't even bother to come.