Product Details

• Actors: Bruce Brown-Golden Years of Surf Collection
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Image Entertainment
• VHS Release Date: June 20, 2000
• Run Time: 72 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6305873097
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #71,654 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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This is surf filmmaker supreme Bruce Brown's first film: the story of five surfers on their dream trip to Hawaii, spending an entire winter living and surfing on the North Shore of Oahu on $100 a month. Try doing that today! "Slippery When Wet" features an original musical score by jazz legend Bud Shank.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Not good as Surf Crazy!!, April 28, 2009

By	Francisco Cortes - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Slippery When Wet (DVD)

If you want to see the COOLEST kids of the 50's catching HUGE waves and doing all kind of crazy stuffs! then I recommend this movie, but if you want a GOOD film quality then this is NOT for you.

The reason that this movie wasn't so good is because of the soundtrack which didn't fit with the movie. The background music is always slow instrumental jazz, I don't hate jazz but it just didn't fit with the cool moves of the surfers (specially with the moves in slow-motion). Also, the color quality of the film is kind of annoying at times, and there isn't to much action as Surf Crazy.

I know that this is the first Bruce Brown film, in the intro he explain that he didn't had to much budget to make this movie better. But at least, the film was successfuly enought to make another movie with better soundtrack, editing and action (Surf Crazy).

Warning: Most of theses documentaries are silent, so you won't hear the character's voices but you will hear Bruce Brown narrating. Bruce Brown is not SOO good in narration but he is not the worst.

P.S: I also know that Bruce Brown's masterpiece is Endless Summer (1967), but I only want to know how cool and rocking the 50's were.

Adios.

3.0 out of 5 stars Slippery When Wet, February 6, 2009

By	Lindsay W. Cullen (Gold Coast Australia) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Slippery When Wet (DVD)

I think this movie was pretty good for a guy of 20 Bruce Brown his first film and only $5000 to get it done good on you well done.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Vintage Surf Visuals, Narrative - dead on arrival, April 6, 2008

By	P. Miller "crestview306" (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Slippery When Wet (DVD)

If you love surfing and the beaches of Hawaii, then go ahead and get this. The filming and surfing footage is actually pretty decent considering this is Brown's first movie. However, be warned that the narrative is the lamest, most unprofessional, amaturish, pitiful attempt to pull the visuals together into some semblence of a plot. It fails miserably. You'd be better off doing your own narrative. Better yet - just mute the sound and watch, because Brown's narration is simply an annoying distraction. Why he didn't invest some time in scripting a decent narration is confounding. It would have made the film immenently more interesting. What's worse, is that Brown's updated introduction and intermission interviews are no better than when he narrated the original film. The man essentially has NO verbal talent - zip, zilch, nil. He's incapable intelligent elocution of any kind or of even being able to pretend to "act" for the interviews. Get this film for the visuals ONLY.