Laguna Beach - The Complete First Season
by George Plamondon
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Actor: Kristin Cavallari, Lauren Bosworth, Lauren Conrad, Morgan Olsen, Natalie EngelkeDirector: George Plamondon
Brand: CONRAD,LAUREN
Producer: Adam DiVello
Producer: Caroline Pessoa
Producer: Craig Borders
Producer: Dave Sirulnick
Producer: Gary Auerbach
Writer: Gary Auerbach
Producer: Jason Sands
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 226 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-07-19
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Paramount / MTV
Movie Reviews of Laguna Beach - The Complete First Season
Movie Review: Who created Reality TV anyway?!
Summary: 1 Stars
Laguna Beach is a beautiful resort in Southern California. It is known for its gorgeous beaches, interesting art festivals, and clean waters. I've visited it many times ever since I was a little kid, and I'm always struck at how beautiful everything is. Everything except . . . that godawful reality show! Honestly, this is one of the most horrible shows to ever hit the mainstream media. Why? Well, everything is so incredibly uninteresting. It's basically these young girls and boys talking and talking and talking and shopping and talking and talking and doing nothing and shopping and breaking up and making up and going to the beach and talking and . . . that's all they do. Come on! I'm pretty sure that not every teenager that lives in Laguna Beach is like that. They're smarter and more interesting than the ones that are on this show. And why would we be fascinated with Kristin, Jen, and everyone else? They are such a boring group of people! They do nothing productive with their own lives! Why are they doing nothing but lying around and enjoying the sunshine? Why don't we see them work? Don't they have jobs?! Good God, the creator of this show ought to be banned from television!
But I think the worst sin that this show commits is that it assumes that this is "The Real Orange County." Bull****! You actually think that this county is full of rich white people? That is false: that's only fifteen percent of the entire population. And believe me when I say that I live in Orange County (I've been living here for about fifteen years). If you go farther up north away from Laguna Beach, you can see that it's ETHNICALLY DIVERSE. Here we have Latinos, Asians, African-Americans, etc. And not only that, we have many different philosophies on life, not to mention our variable political and religious beliefs. Oh, and we work for a living. We don't always lie around the house all the time. Don't get me wrong. I still love the south side of Orange County. Huntington, Newport, and Laguna are fantastic beaches, and the suburbia in Laguna Niguel and Mission Viejo are just beautiful. But why couldn't MTV focus on a city like Garden Grove or Buena Park or Santa Ana? THEY'RE the cities that showcase the Real Orange County. As a matter of fact, I would love to see a show on Fox or NBC that would show just that.
So there you have it. "Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County," in all its boring and inaccurate glory, sucks. It's definitely one of the worst shows of the new millennium. This is one reason why I don't watch Reality TV. God help us all.
Grade: F
Summary of Laguna Beach - The Complete First Season
LAGUNA BEACH: THE REAL ORANGE COUNTY -- It's one of the wealthiest, most beautiful communities in the world and MTV has unlimited access to the tight-knit power clique of eight rich, beautiful teenagers that live there. Their lives intertwine in ways you won't believe, until you drop in for a visit. Watch as these friends share experiences through parties, relationships, love triangles and small town injustices. This is where the angst and the tumultuous affairs are the stuff of prime time drama - except this is all REAL. Welcome to Paradise, otherwise known as Laguna Beach, California.Branded as "The real Orange County," this tepid yet easily addictive MTV series follows a group of wealthy high schoolers from Laguna Beach, California. Their lives are almost too perfect to be real: good looks, houses by the beach, even close relationships with their parents. They shop, plan parties, and get brand-new cars wrapped in a bow for graduation (and you thought that only happened in commercials!). But it's a reality show packaged as a teen soap.
At the center of season 1 is the love triangle between good-girl narrator LC, her childhood friend Stephen, and his beautiful but cold girlfriend Kristin, who likes to mention at any chance possible how much she "hates" LC. Other highlights for the seniors include spring break in Cabo, birthday bashes, one character's embarrassing audition for a Broadway show, and the repetitive mantra of "Can you believe this is the last time we'll be together like this?"
One's envy of young rich kids who are just like you--but not--is certainly what Laguna Beach likes to tap into (you find out they even have weekly O.C. viewing parties!). Unfortunately, it's also what makes it so vanilla. Since there aren't producers auditioning the most colorful personalities to home-grow drama, you're left with pals so alike you get them confused. Not only that, their "conflicts"--limited to gossip and drunk confrontations--don't really make for great television, at least by the reality-TV standards we're used to. But kids who thrive on the gossip of their own friends will likely continue chatting about this show like it's their own high school.
DVD features include an MTV cribs-type tour of LC's massive mansion (still being built in season 1) and many deleted scenes, which include the technical glitch that got Morgan into BYU (see? It's not just money) and Trey's argument with a midget. --Ellen Kim
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