Product Details

• Actors: MTV-Real World
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Sony
• DVD Release Date: June 26, 2001
• Run Time: 55 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (34 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00004Z4WJ
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #88,596 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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Editorial Reviews

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This collection of behind-the-scenes capers provides Real World fans even more of their favorite vicarious thrills, watching the residents of the Big Easy's Belfort House flirt, fight, and have fun. Mostly fun. Lots of it. In after-show interviews that seem designed to encourage dirt dishing, Julie, Matt, Kelley, Danny, David, Melissa, and Jamie spend most of their time laughing at themselves--and luckily, the laughter is infectious. Hidden-camera footage and crew bloopers show the cast members at their most hilarious, proving they're not only smart enough to see through the show's manipulation of reality, but smart enough to have fun with it. Just like real life, much of the accidental humor centers around bodily functions and frustrated sex drives, and some viewers might be turned off by the spy-cam montage of nose picking, or the mindlessly drunk Mardi Gras antics of the Belfort crew. But this show is really saved by characters who are just that--characters. Melissa's hysterical impressions of her own parents (who show up in person later) might be worth the price of the video alone. --Grant Balfour

Customer Reviews

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24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing - Didn't Deliver Enough, January 10, 2001

By	G. Paula (Clifton, NJ United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Overall I liked the cast of REAL WORLD NEW ORLEANS a lot, so I had high hopes for this DVD. After viewing it, I liked the cast even more, but I was disappointed with the DVD.

First, the good stuff:

1. There are a lot of funny moments on this DVD. The ones that come to mind are the funny (and sexy) Adam and Eve spoof Danny and Kelley did, Melissa's prank phone call to phone star, and the various cast members teasing David with their own versions of "Come On Be My Baby Tonight." (Did anyone but me ever notice that David ripped this song off from "Guys and Dolls?")

2. I also liked the bonus footage of the cast members' audition tapes. We saw bits of this during the casting special, but the DVD provided a lot more.

Here are my gripes:

1. The stuff on there was good, but there wasn't nearly enough of it. This drove me crazy. Not including the bonus stuff, the DVD wasn't even an hour long. It cost way too much for so little. The production company had thousands of hours of tape to draw material from. Why not make the DVD four hours long? I'm sure there'd be no problem filling it with interesting stuff, and it wouldn't even cost them anything extra because the footage already exists. There was no reason for this DVD to be so short.

2. Some of this stuff was so good that I can't believe they left it out of the actual series. For example, in the show, much time was given to Melissa's impressions of her parents. Unless you've viewed the DVD, you'd never know that Melissa's parents came to visit her in New Orleans. Yes, we got to meet the often-imitated Mercy and Shorty. They were fun, and I definitely wanted to see even more of them.

3. The box said that the DVD contained 100% new material. Although the vast majority of it was new, it wasn't all new. That's a minor gripe.

Summary: Overall, I liked what was on there, but I didn't feel like I got enough for what I paid.

39 of 42 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Surprisingly Funny!, October 16, 2000

By	John Aldridge (Rochester, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Real World You Never Saw - New Orleans [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This video of extra scenes from the New Orleans cast is really pretty funny! Although the cast hasn't been the best cast ever this year, they seem most real when they're setting up the funniest moments in this video. Julie surprised me in this video. You get to see an even wilder side of her that you don't see much in the episodes on tv. There are actually some surprises in this video with flirty segments on Danny & Kelley and Julie & Matt. Fans of Danny will be happy too because he gets a lot of attention on this video. I don't have the DVD but I think that it has a lot of extra stuff on it like clips from their casting tapes which would be cool. I highly recommend it!

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars You'll Laugh Your A** Off!, November 7, 2000

By	Real World Watcher (College Park, MD United States) - See all my reviews

This movie is definitely worth the money. You get some behind the scenes footage that is absolutely hysterical. David's "Come on be my baby tonight" song....nuff said. The only disappointing part was that the nudity, cursing, and obscene gestures were still blurred out...aw well. Overall, a definite buy!