The Endless Summer
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Actor: Lord 'Tally Ho' Blears, Michael Hynson, Robert August, Terence Bullen, Wayne MiyataBrand: Team Marketing
Primary Contributor: Robert August
Primary Contributor: Michael Hynson
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: Pan & Scan, 1.33:1
Running Time: 95 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-05-23
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Image Entertainment
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DVD Reviews of The Endless Summer
DVD Review: An enjoyable revisit to a classic.
Summary: 5 Stars
This DVD is excellent. The quality was better than expected. I saw this movie when it was orginally released in 1966, and it was better than i remembered it to be. it arrived on time and in the condition it was described to be.DVD Review: Fun And Educational, Thanks To Brown
Summary: 4 Stars
This was an entertaining and educational trip around the world. It follows two American surfers who are seen visiting West Afrcia, South Africa, India, Australia, New Zealand and, of course, Hawaii.
Watching this 40 years later after seeing it in a theater, it was interesting to see how they looked at prices of things. For example, in Africa, they are astounded at having to pay $30 a night to stay in a motel or pay $1 for a gallon of gasoline. I'll bet they would change their tune today!
The film gives you a good feel for the '60s surf scene with the lingo ("stoked, hang ten, etc.")
The surging can get boring after awhile but Bruce Brown, who made this film and narrates it, usually didn't overdo those parts and he does an outstanding job narrating to keep us non-surfers interested. He's a funny guy!
There are some memorable moments: seeing a place where the waves go past the sand right to the shore and then back out again; the famous Waimea Bay of Hawaii, of the biggest waves ever to be surfed; the perfect waves on the east side of Africa, the incredible scenery in New Zealand and the flies in Perth, Australia!
A fun movie. If you enjoyed this, check out the sequel "Endless Summer II." That is very good, too, and with better camera-work.
DVD Review: Awesome movie
Summary: 5 Stars
It is not only a fantastic surfing movie; it is a fantastic look at the world in 1968. They couldn't say what they say in this movie today. It would NOT be PC. There is nothing offensive about this movie socially, but the left wing PC'ers of the world would not let these guys describe the world so accurately.
As far as I am concerned, this is the all time best manly movie about surfing around the world. Makes me want to walk out on my job, grab my son and surfboard and travel the world surfing!
DVD Review: The Endless Summeer
Summary: 5 Stars
For people who live in a hot summer climate, I live in Texas, this is a classic escape flick. It is a perennial favorite. Two fellows who are well liked, and a great narrator--searching for the perfect wave for their surfing. Where? Around the world. On my computer I found modern day pictures of the fellows. Yes, each had changed from their appearance in the early years of the 1960's, but much fun to view the DVD. Thanks. JM DVD Review: All Good Summers Must Come To An End
Summary: 3 Stars
I suspect everybody has certain movies that became almost mythic for them, even though they never quite got around to seeing them. ENDLESS SUMMER was such a film for me. It debuted in 1966 when I was in junior high school, and, like the BEACH PARTY movies and the motorcycle flicks of the era, it was a film I wanted desperately to see, but one I was just a few years too young for. "Youth culture" was a very ill-defined term at the time, but anything that seemed to smack of freedom from familial and societal restraints, i.e. just bumming around, was inherently intriguing to me. Unfortunately, my mom and dad didn't always agree.
Within a few years, surf culture probably started seeming relatively wholesome compared to the more illicit activities that were starting to gain a foothold in the culture. But even as a young teen, I was vaguely aware that there was sort of a Beatnik underside to the surfing scene. Sure the Gidgets of the world would grow up, and Frankie and Annette would settle down in the suburbs. But there were also those guys you'd hear about, like the two dudes in this movie, who were doing wild things like traveling the world searching for the perfect wave in "an endless summer." There was something Romantically "Kerouac-ian" about people like that.
Or so it seemed 'til I finally saw the movie. For years I had labored under the impression that the two guys at the heart of this documentary were the hardcore, near-beatnik beachbums who would spend their entire lives on this kind of quest. Turn out they were a couple of average Joes (or given their surfer dude status, maybe I should say "average Chads") who probably jumped at the chance to make this doc and travel around the world for one GLOBAL summer (but hardly an "endless one") before heading to business school or wherever their real life career paths would lead them.
Still, the cinematography--while perhaps a bit primitive by today's standards--is good enough to suggest something of the thrill of the sport, and there are plenty of scenes that give the viewer a feel for the Zeitgeist. But it's still pretty much a conventional documentary, with a "youthful orientation" that hasn't aged all that well. And, yes, some of the non-PC commentary about native tribesmen and customs in the various locales IS grating, even if it's more or less understandable given the era. Gripes about $30.00 a night hotel rooms and $1.00 cups of coffee (and--EGAD-- $1.00 per gallon GAS!!) are bound to give contemporary viewers a chuckle or two.
Worth a look-see, but this viewer was somewhat disappointed to find out after all these years that "The Endless Summer" was really more like "a protracted spring break." Maybe somebody will do the Miki Dora story sometime. Now that could get into some Neal Cassidy-type territory.
Description of The Endless Summer
The greatest surf movie ever made. "On any day of the year it is summer somewhere in the world..." Go with Robert August and Mike Hynson as they follow the summer season to Senegal, Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Tahiti, Hawaii and California in search of the perfect wave. Still the ultimate surf film of all time!The definitive surf movie, this 1966 documentary by Bruce Brown is beautifully shot and thrilling to see in its portrait of youthful freedom on the world's shores. Brown followed two surfers around the globe in their quest for the perfect wave, finding it eventually on a remote beach far from home. The narration by "Big Kahuna Brown" cuts through the reverence a bit, being cheeky in tone. --Tom Keogh
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