4/13/11

Endless Summer II (1994)

       

 Few are the sequels that are up to the quality of the original movie and Endless Summer II belongs to that restricted club. It  managed to keep the level of excelence of Bruce Brown´s masterpiece made 28 years before. Like the first flick it is a road movie. But instead of just discovering new waves, surfers Pat O´Connel and Robert Weaver retrace the steps of the first duo Mike Hynson and Robert August. What follows is a journey where the two american surfers observe what has changed on the places that the first film portrayed which such an innocent beauty.

       Endless Summer II has everything that made Bruce Brown the Spielberg of surf movies. The footage and specially the photography are near to cinematographic perfection. The surfing itself is masterfully filmed (the     underwater camera work is almost symphonic in its composition!) but as any surf film connoisseur knows what takes every surf movie to another level are the quality of the segments in between of the surfing clips, and solely for that Endless Summer is a masterpiece. The narration is humorous and the treatment of the ocean, landscape, cultures and people encountered will stay etched in the memory of every surfer for a long time.

Verdict: 9/10

15 comments:

  1. dang, 28 years to get a sequel, wonder if there will be another. I wont lie, I am surprised there are so many surf movies haha.

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  2. Excellent review. Still need to see the first one and then check this out.

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  3. awesome, wonder if ill ever get to see it. movies from 1994 aren't easy to find these days.

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  4. Yep, this was and still is an amazing sequel to the original. The huge wave at the end is freaking awesome!

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  5. haven't seen it. added to "need to see" movies

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  6. The Terminator 2 of surf movie sequels. Almost Warren Miller-ish

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  7. 28 years? That's longer than Duke Nukem!

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  8. I saw the first one on netflix, but I didn't finish watching it.. =/

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  9. I've got a poster of this on my wall. Good movie

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  10. Ive seen this movie. Good in its day but dated now.

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  11. 28 years for a sequel... Wow... And it's good? I might just have to check up on this...

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