Laguna Beach - The Complete Second Season
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Actor: Kristin Cavallari, Lauren Conrad, Stephen Colletti, Talan Torriero, Taylor ColeDirector: Jason Sands
Brand: BOSWORTH,LAUREN
Producer: Adam DiVello
Producer: Caroline Pessoa
Producer: Colin Nash
Producer: Craig Borders
Producer: Dave Sirulnick
Producer: Gary Auerbach
Writer: Gary Auerbach
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 367 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-08-08
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Paramount / MTV
Movie Reviews of Laguna Beach - The Complete Second 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 Second Season
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. Welcome to Paradise, otherwise known as Laguna Beach, California.Laguna Beach, the MTV hit about real-life rich kids in the coastal Orange County town, is too real to be a soap opera and too fake to be a reality series--and therein lies the rub. At least if Laguna Beach were a scripted drama, you could buy the suspended disbelief that a crush would just happen to appear in front of you as you're saying, "I wonder what he thinks about me." Or if it were truly a reality series, you can forgive the repeated exclamations of "This is going to be soooo fun, I am soo excited, you guys!" But because producers pull one too many puppet strings to heighten drama and add exposition, the sudsy guilty pleasure can be hard to watch. After all, how many times in a week can two guys pause in the middle of skateboarding to discuss their feelings? (This is addressed in the post-show interviews, where cast members spill that they're ordered to alert producers when they're about to dump someone so they can film the action in time.) Nonetheless, season two builds in addictive nature courtesy of alpha female Kristin (Cavallari, who later wound up a tabloid staple), now the narrator. She's the spice to season one narrator LC's sugar, a Mean Girl without the moral lesson. (Ironically, home movies featured on the DVD show Kristin, age 2, dressed as a witch for Halloween.) She unabashedly breaks hearts, "hooks up" with her friends' crushes, misleads her hangdog ex Stephen, and bashes rival blondes. If Kristin had less sense, she'd actually be a perfect match for perennial cheater Jason, whose "hotness" remains inexplicable given his inability to ignore his hormones. Don't miss Jason's interview in the bonus features, in which he repeatedly uses the words "bad," "stupid," and "I wasn't thinking" when confronted about his many dalliances.
Aside from the theatrics, this gang encounters prom, spring break trips to Mexico, graduation gifts from Tiffany, and charity fashion shows. College and parents are non-entities; "the new girl" comes with a lavish mansion, backstabbing gossip, and a personal hairstylist who gives her Barbie mop-locks. But for fans who know drama all too well, the Laguna Beach crew represents high school in Fantasyland, where your friends just happen to be beautiful and rich. -Ellen A. Kim
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