DVD : The Hills - The Complete Second Season |
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Rating:  - * addictive! ... I was only curious when I watched the first season, and by that stage I was hooked! Every episode, i needed to find out what was going to happen! Would friendships mend, would or won't they get together? When Heidi dump Spencer? I have now watch the full second series in one day, which is absolutely crazy and now am hanging out to watch the 3rd. Rating:  - * Don't think I'll stay on season 3... ... The subjects are becoming way too girly for me and too much songs were changed on this set.As I know pretty much all the songs were changed on Season 3 set and that season 2 started to disappoint me with it shallowness,I think my journey on the hills is over with this one. A season to watch though and some situations you can relate to (I know I did...),but it's like every reality show,you get easily hooked on it with the first eps and then you get tired of it,just like that... Rating: - * Love The Hills! ... My sister and I loved Laguna Beach and especially Lauren Conrad (L.C.). I was deployed in 2006, when The Hills Season 1 aired, but my sister told me about the show and said that I would like it. Once I returned from my deployment, MTV wasn't airing the episodes any more. As soon Season 1 came out, I purchased it on dvd; now I own all three season's! I'm a faithful watcher of The Hills! I am currently deployed, but I plan on buying Season 4 as soon as it's released on dvd! Rating: - * Excellent upconverted almost HD quality! ... This is mainly a technical review of the quality of this DVD set...I swear at times it felt like I was watching an HD broadcast of the show. Looked excellent on my 100" screen with a Mitsubishi HD1000U 720p projector via a PS3. Video is grainy which is good! Makes it look very filmlike...great looking set of DVDs. Highly recommended if you upconverting. Rating:  - * Beautifully boring. ... I don't care what people say, The Hills is totally scripted! I cannot watch five minutes of this "reality" show without getting a headache. Lauren, Heidi, Audrina, and Whitney are the biggest complainers ever! The cameras used on this show are quite glossy and eye-catching and so is the editing but the pace and the garbage these spoiled girls gossip about is so boring. How could MTV put a show that is so pointless, I'll take The Real World over this junk any day. |
Marie opens the show with an outdoor rendition of "We Need a Little Christmas" and then moves into the studio where Kirk Cameron arrives on a snowmobile (fresh from rescuing a trio of blonde snow bunnies) to read "The First Christmas Story." Lee Greenwood performs "Christmas to Christmas" and later a duet with Marie. "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" is sung by Sally Struthers and daughter with help from the Osmond Boys--six stepping stones ages 4 to 12 who have the senior Osmonds' moves down pat. The adorable award, though, goes to Marie's 5-year-old son, Steven, who performs a rockin' version of "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town" (clapping on the off-beat nearly the whole song).
Marie has a good, strong voice, but many of the songs are overproduced and melodramatic. This, most likely, is a product of the big, pouffy '80s (her hair and outfits are also bigger-than-life) rather than a reflection of her talents. The closing number, "O Holy Night," sung by Marie alone, is quite lovely. --Dana Van Nest
