Product Details

• Actors: Kristin Cavallari, Jessica Smith, Jason Wahler, Alex Murrel, Taylor Cole
• Directors: Jason Sands
• Writers: Gary Auerbach
• Producers: Adam DiVello, Caroline Pessoa, Colin Nash, Craig Borders, Dave Sirulnick
• Format: Color, Dolby, NTSC, Widescreen
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo)
• Dubbed: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 3
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Paramount / MTV
• DVD Release Date: August 8, 2006
• Run Time: 367 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (34 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000F9T70U
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #16,087 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
  • #59 in Movies & TV > DVD > Reality TV
• Learn more about "Laguna Beach - The Complete Second Season" on IMDb

Editorial Reviews

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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

Product Description

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.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

30 of 34 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars ah, Guilty Pleasure at its finest August 20, 2006

By dottikins

Format:DVD

This show is pretty much the definition of a guilty pleasure, and I'm guilty all right: half of the people I know mock me for watching this show and the other half have no idea I watch because I would die of shame if they found out. My sister constantly questions why I watch LB and I have fine-honed my reasons:

-- I went to an overly academically geared high school, so never had the chance to gossip about the in-crowd hijinks of "hooking up" and drunken antics. I missed out on my prime gossip years!

-- It's a chance to see how the other (wealthier) half live... and mock them.

-- Anthropologists have determined that 60% of human communication involves talking about other people; watching "Laguna Beach" proves how human I am.

-- It's a chance to sit back and watch attractive, overly wealthy and pampered teenagers make each other miserable by gossiping, back-stabbing and stealing each other's boyfriends and objects of affection. It's like the real-life version of "Mean Girls" only without Tina Fey writing their lines for them. Less wit, better clothes!

The show is lots of fun if you've got the twisted sensibility to enjoy it. And the second season is much, much better than the first season, with more cat fights, break-ups, tears and "hook-ups" than ever.

My only caveat: watching this on DVD is really the best way to watch, just downing episode after episode right after each other, but I don't know about the necessity of owning them -- who would want to re-watch these episode over and over again? I'm pretty much of the opinion that no reality show is a must-have on DVD, so definitely Netflix/rent over buying.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Life above surface is Surreal, Life below surface is just the Same January 15, 2008

By Zhao Yang

Format:DVD

I like to watch this TV series for one simple reason - try not to feel jealous about how material/pretty their life may look like, feel happy for the fact that all of them have to grow up and go through all the necessary phases in their life like the others with no exception.

Growing up takes time and i am sure today, these teenagers are no longer the same as yesterday!

Zhao Yang
Chinese

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Laguna Beach!!!! June 28, 2009

By L. Burton

Format:DVD

This is by far my favorite season of laguna Beach! I love its teen soap opera goodness...

9 of 13 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Overall, A Good Purchase July 17, 2006

By Drew

Format:DVD

I am very pleased with having ordered this DVD. You're probably wondering how I'm going to tell you about it when it hasn't been released, yet. I already have it because MTV sent it three weeks before its release date to everyone who pre-ordered it.

The DVD has pretty cool bonus features like Deleted Scenes, Interviews, Casting Tapes, Photos, Childhood Home Videos, A Preview for Season 3 (which is different than the one shown on the season two finale; and a little different from the one viewable at [...] like 4 featurettes, a preview for "Virtual Laguna Beach" (You create a character and live in Laguna Beach; very much like the Sims, only Laguna Beach-ized. For expample, you have to try and get a date for senior prom), and a lot of other stuff.

Definetly worthy of my $25! I'd reccomend it for any Laguna Beach fan or any who can stomach watching a group of rich teenagers.

9 of 13 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars THE most immature brats ... :-( January 13, 2008

By Little Miss Cutey

Format:DVD

What a group of idiots. I've never seen a more ignorant, immature bunch of brats in my life. All they do is vacation because heaven forbid they go get real jobs. Then they winge to each other about the same stuff day after day after day after day ... They rehash the same boy issues over and over and for a change of pace, the guys are more mature than the idiot girls. When Kristin and Stephen have their talk about her seeing another guy, there is no dialogue because they are both too stupid to think of something to say, and then what happens? She drives off in her car on the phone (very safe driving) and mouths off about him to her friend and every other word is 'like'. If they say 'like' one more time, I might scream. And who the heck pays for their vacations etc? Their parents who if had been present in their lives more, might have raised better kids. These kids might be rich, but their lives are boring because all they do is hang out with the same people (even those they hate) at the same places all the boring time. Why don't they read a newspaper or do something else intelligent to broaden their narrow minds and bring more varied conversations to this show.
Don't waste your money on this rubbish. The only 'intelligent' one in the bunch (and certainly the nicest) is Lauren and her show "The Hills" is a zillion times better. Like totally.

5.0 out of 5 stars Laguna Forever! June 8, 2013

By Aja

Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase

Laguna Beach is one of my classic guilty pleasures! I absolutely am ecstatic that i purchased it! The teens are wild, crazy, rich and some are even loveable.

5.0 out of 5 stars LOVED IT AS ALWAYS!!! June 6, 2013

By sbwalker26

Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase

I love this show still and I am almst 35 years old. My plan is to wn ALL THE SEASONS

5.0 out of 5 stars WOOHOO May 26, 2013

By Kelly

Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase

This was my favorite reality show when it first came out and I am so glad to have found it on DVD. It arrived quickly and in the condition it was supposed to. Great buy!