The Orange Years: The Nickelodeon Story

2018

Action / Documentary

7
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 88%
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 92%
IMDb Rating 7.5 10 1132

Plot summary



October 29, 2022 at 04:25 PM

Director

Scott Barber

Top cast

Christine Taylor as
Melissa Joan Hart as Self
Larisa Oleynik as Self
Danny Cooksey as Self
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942.14 MB
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23.976 fps
1 hr 42 min
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1280*720
English 2.0
NR
23.976 fps
1 hr 42 min
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English 2.0
NR
23.976 fps
1 hr 42 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by fischer_patrick 9 / 10

Great nostalgic look at Nick History

This is a really well done film. It does a great job in telling the history of Nickelodeon. It does so with great archival footage and modern day interviews with the biggest stars of Nickelodeon's past. A super fun and nostalgic trip down memory lane if you grew up in the 80's or 90's.

Reviewed by drqshadow-reviews 7 / 10

Fond Memories for Any Child of the 1990s

I came of age in the late '80s and early '90s, and in retrospect, I'm not sure there was a single more powerful influence on those formative years than Nickelodeon. Pinwheel and Danger Mouse colored my earliest memories, Double Dare and Mr. Wizard arrived a bit later, Salute Your Shorts and Ren & Stimpy spoke to me as a pre-teen... it seemed that as I grew and matured, so did the network, catering its programming to meet what I wanted or needed at that specific point in my life.

Looking back at it here, through a wide-angled lens, I was startled by how much of this material has lingered in my long-term memory banks and still, subtly, feeds my personality today. That's where The Orange Years makes its hay: coasting through a laundry list of beloved short-run TV shows and catchy pre-commercial bumpers, refreshing fond recollections in its audience while serving a dash of backstage skinny to better humanize the men and women behind this little network that could. And that's really what it was, at least in the early days: a boutique cable channel, catering to a very specific market, in an era before that was a proven formula.

The peeks behind the curtain are wonderful and inspiring - happy conversations with stars, creators and executives who are still jazzed about the product, twenty years after moving on - but the greater urge to service nearly every original property with some degree of inspection grows tiresome after nearly two hours. Should've been twenty minutes shorter.

Reviewed by awfczjh 10 / 10

Took me back..

I grew up watching Nick and this took me right back to those good ol' after school days. Such great nostalgia! I loved it. It's a must see..

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godslonelymann December 17, 2021 at 04:03 pm

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Stingthatsting December 05, 2020 at 05:41 pm

This is is all sugarcoated and doesn't talk about some of the predatorial producers behind the scenes right?