The Endless Summer II

Director: Bruce Brown

Overview

"Bruce Brown's follow-up to his groundbreaking surfing documentary gets a solid presentation in its release on DVD. The Endless Summer II has been given a full-frame transfer to disc at the aspect ratio of 1.33:1, and the audio is presented in Dolby Digital Stereo. The feature is in English, and no multiple language options or subtitles have been included. Bonus materials include a short feature on the making of the film, biographical sketches on Brown and the featured surfers, a photo gallery, and a chat between Brown and his crew as they look back on the making of the film."

Product Details

Release Date:	09/30/2003
UPC:	0012233134926
Original Release:	1994
Rating:	PG
Source:	MONTEREY VIDEO
Region Code:	1
Sound:	[stereo]
Language:	English
Time:	1:40:00

Special Features

Surfer bios; Bruce's scrapbook; The making of ES II; Bruce Brown reminisces; SurferSpeak

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Bruce Brown	Narrator
Robert 'Wingnut' Weaver	Actor
Patrick O'Connell	Actor
Phil Marshall	Composer
Gary Hoey	Composer

Technical Credits

Bruce Brown

Bruce Brown	Director,Screenwriter,Screenwriter
Ron Moler	Producer
Michael Harpster	Producer
Roger Riddell	Producer

Editorial Reviews

The Endless Summer, the beloved documentary about two California surfers who travel the world in search of the perfect wave, inspired an entire generation to take up surfing. It’s a hard act to follow, but director Bruce Brown (father of Step into Liquid director Dana Brown) came out of retirement 30 years later to make this surprisingly satisfying sequel to his cult classic. Like its predecessor, The Endless Summer II: The Journey Continues chronicles the adventures of two young California surfers -- short-board champ Pat O’Connell and long-boarder Robert "Wingnut" Weaver -- as they globe-hop from one incredible surf spot to another. Brown provides the same goofy, laid-back narration that made The Endless Summer so distinctive, and the sight gags and slapstick humor are just as juvenile. What’s impossible to recapture, of course, is the freshness and innocent charm of the low-tech 1966 original, but the new film makes up for that with awe-inspiring, state-of-the-art cinematography that puts the viewer inside the waves with the surfers. The guys travel to Costa Rica, France, South Africa, Fiji, Australia, and Indonesia, hooking up and hanging ten in each spectacular location with some of the world’s finest surfers, including Tom Curren, Gerry Lopez, Laird Hamilton, and Kelly Slater. They also revisit characters from The Endless Summer, such as Robert August, one of the travelers from the first film; Australian Nat Young; and South African maverick John Whitmore. One of the best sequences in The Endless Summer II comes when O’Connell and Wingnut make their way across the dunes to the beach on Cape St. Francis, where August and fellow traveler Mike Hynson discovered the "perfect" wave, only to find the once-deserted strip of coast now covered with condos and the legendary break undermined by shoreline development. But rather than dwell in nostalgia, the film just moves breezily along in search of the next jaw-dropping set of waves. The result is an upbeat, infectious celebration of surfing that will prove almost as thrilling to a new generation of surfers as the original was to their parents.