Feature
length: 50 minutes
Extras:
House Tour, Cast Bios Featuring Audition Clips, NY Haunts
Languages:
English Stereo
Subtitles:
English Closed Captions
Packaging:
Amaray Keep Case
Chapter
Stops: 19
Sound:
Stereo Sound
Year
of DVD Release: 2002
Home
Video Distributor: Paramount Home Entertainment
MPAA
Rating: Not Rated
Reviewer:
Mark A. Rivera
If
ever there was ever fodder for “The Decline Of Western Civilization: Part
III,” MTV would be a prime candidate. Does anyone remember when you did not
have to have MTV2 in order to see music videos? “The Real World” is the
granddaddy of all reality programs and when the original “Real World”
premiered in 1991 or thereabouts the series was fresh and new, but now the
series is more of an oxymoron than it ever was with only the network it
broadcasts on to be the larger oxymoron. I really think the quality of
programming has gone down hill on MTV, with this year’s Video Music Awards to
be a prime example. “The Real World You Never Saw: Back To New York” is a
just trashy collection of outtakes with more young people mugging for the
cameras in a pathetic attempt to create melodrama.
These
videotaped extras that were too “bad” for MTV to air, are nothing but a
bunch of 4 by 3 videotaped clips with Stereo Sound of pure nonsense. English
Closed Captions for the hearing impaired are provided and there is a featurette
that gives a tour of the apartment where these kids lived, which is probably the
worst decorating I have ever seen even by MTV standards. Brief cast bios with
clips from their auditions are included along with a brief look at the cast’s
favorite NYC haunts.
I
normally am never so harsh about a DVD or anything else, but I really cannot see
why anyone except a fan or an obsessed voyeur into self-depreciation would ever
want this DVD. Don’t blame Paramount Home Entertainment either because they
are just the distributor, this is marked as a part of “MTV’s DVD Video
Collection” and all blame should be delivered to MTV. If you are looking for
very expensive coasters, MTV’s “The Real World You Never Saw: Back To New
York” is in stores now.
©
Copyright 2002 By Mark A. Rivera
All Rights Reserved.