The Endless Summer 2 (1994)

User Rating:

7.2/10   

Director:

Bruce Brown

Writers:

Bruce Brown (writer)
Dana Brown (writer)

Release Date:

3 June 1994 (USA)

Genre:

Documentary | Adventure | Sport

Tagline:

The journey continues...

Plot:

Bruce Brown, king of surfing documentaries, returns after nearly thirty years to trace the steps of...

Plot Keywords:

Surfing | Surfer | Narration | On The Road | Wave

Cast

Robert 'Wingnut' Weaver	...	Principal Surfer
Patrick O'Connell	...	Principal Surfer
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Robert August	...	Surfer
T.J. Barron	...	Surfer
Jeff Booth	...	Surfer
Bruce Brown	...	Narrator (voice)
Todd Chesser	...	Surfer
Tom Curren	...	Surfer
Mike Diffenderfer	...	Surfer
Darrick Doerner	...	Surfer
Herbie Fletcher	...	Surfer
Sunny Garcia	...	Surfer
Johnny Boy Gomes	...	Surfer
Craig D. Gree	...	Surfer
Laird John Hamilton	...	Surfer
Derek Ho	...	Surfer
Michael Ho	...	Surfer
Cheyne Horan	...	Surfer
Ricky Irons	...	Surfer
Jack Johnson	...	Surfer
Pete Johnson	...	Surfer
Made Kasim	...	Balinese surfer (as Made)
Brian L. Keaulana	...	Surfer
Rabbit Kekai	...	Surfer
Buzzy Kerbox	...	Surfer
Wes Laine	...	Surfer
Brock Little	...	Surfer
Gerry Lopez	...	Surfer
Francois-Xavier Maltin	...	Surfer
Liam McNamara	...	Surfer
Tom Morey	...	Surfer
Walter Ngcobo	...	Surfer
Marco Pacheco	...	Surfer
Rusty Pedersen	...	Surfer
Larry Rios	...	Surfer
Kelly Slater	...	Surfer
Rell Sunn	...	Surfer
Chris Taloa	...	Surfer (as Chris Won)
Rizal Tanjung	...	Balinese surfer (as Risal)
Shaun Tomson	...	Surfer
Glenn Winton	...	Surfer
Beau Young	...	Surfer
Robert Nat Young

Also Known As:

Bruce Brown's The Endless Summer 2

Runtime:

109 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS

Certification:

Australia:G | Iceland:L | New Zealand:G | USA:TV-14 (cable rating) | USA:PG

Filming Locations:

Alaska, USA

Quotes:

[As a pride of Lions attack the buggy they're driving in]
Patrick O'Connell: I thought the locals at Huntington were mean!

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Be Kind Rewind (2008)

Not as good as the original but better than the rest

A follow-up 30 years later shows how surfing has changed in that time. The same commentary style of Bruce Brown remains entertaining. The production quality is of course improved. And the surfing footage is still excellent. One could sense Brown's disappointment when he revisited Cape St Francis, the location of the "perfect wave" in the original to see that the wave had been spoiled by development - something that one who has observed NSW's North Coast and SE Qld's changes over the past 30 years will identify with. All in all, as interesting as the original, modified for a later era, and almost as good.