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List Price: $39.98 | | Label: Hbo Home Video
Salesrank: 1108
Released: June 6, 2006 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
After three months shooting an indie film in the Big Apple, the boys are back in La-la-land. Eric is officially Vince?s manager, Turtle is running the house, Drama is hoping to enhance his onscreen assets...and Ari is pushing a blockbuster superhero role for his golden-boy client.
Description of Entourage-The Complete Second season:
The most clever thing producers did with the second season of Entourage, HBO's hip and hilariously accurate depiction of Hollywood, was to take the boys out of Hollywood. Sending star-on-the-rise Vincent Chase (Adrian Grenier) and his boys from Queens (hence the title of the show) into places like Sundance and ComiCon created a whole new treasure trove of inside jokes, and for that we thank them. The usual clutter of celeb cameos abound (Hugh Hefner, Pauly Shore, Ralph Macchio,), but one main story arc takes up the entire season: Vincent's casting in Aquaman, the big-budget movie he didn't want to star in, and then had to vie against Leonardo DiCaprio to get. Mandy Moore turns up as the only girl who ever broke Vince's heart (on the set of A Walk to Remember, allegedly) and now re-enters his life as his Aquagirl, while James Cameron makes a few appearances as director of the superhero project. In the meantime, Turtle (Jerry Ferrara) goes from moocher to music manager, Eric (Kevin Connolly) gets courted to be a big-time agent, and Johnny "Drama" (Kevin Dillon, ever the punchline) ponders calf implants and gets fired from a Movie of the Week with Brooke Shields. The biggest turn of events, however, happens to Vince's slick agent Ari Gold (an Emmy-worthy Jeremy Piven), who pulls a Jerry Maguire by the end of the season. Ari's ability to switch sides on a dime -- that is, to choke up at his daughter's bat mitzvah, then manipulate the family moment into a publicity stunt to lure his client away from a rival, continues to make Piven the firecracker of the bunch. Grenier is slightly less vacuous than last season, but still has the least interesting personality (which could be the point of the show--that it takes a village to make any Joe Actor into a movie star) .
Unfortunately the DVD features no commentary and just one extra: Executive Producer Mark Wahlberg, on whom the show is based, interviews the cast and producers. The banter is interesting enough, but Wahlberg makes such a dull interviewer it's certain we won't see a talk-show host career in Vince's future. --Ellen A. Kim
Entourage-The Complete Second season Reviews:
I love Yatabe's description: "Sex and the City" for guys... 
2009-09-23 - I have no idea how much women may enjoy "Entourage" - I'm also reminded of my brother's description: it's like a he-man woman-hater's club for grown-ups, for those who remember that episode of the old Hal Roach Little Rascals.
Entourage, like other great shows of the past, starts off strong in season one, then in the second season becomes even more fleshed out as the cast and writers become more familiar with their format.
Adrian Grenier's Vinny Chase is coming off filming of the art-house "Queen's Boulevard" and is hoping for another meaty project. He is not particularly interested in donning the glittering suit as Aquaman. Kevin Connolly's "E" continues to grow from former pizza-boy to Hollywood manager - at one point he is recruited by the owner of Ari's agency (played as a magnificent white-haired lion by Malcolm McDowell). Jerry Ferraro as Turtle gets a little more meat - when he recovers their stolen ride from the police pound he finds a hip-hop demo by Saigon in the CD player. Instead of turning in Saigon he thinks the music would sound great on the soundtrack of "Queen's Boulevard" and offers to be Saigon's manager. Kevin Dillon is again miraculous as the bundled mess of anxiety and bravado that is Johnny Drama Chase.
Jeremy Piven stands out in an exceptional cast as Vincent's agent Ari - part Andrew Dice Clay, part Tasmanian Devil. Ari percolates along a hair-trigger away from a volcanic eruption of biblical proportion and you get the idea that he'd sell his own grandmother for a good movie deal.
Celebrity guest roles remain an important part of the mix and you have to give 'em credit - Bob Saget, Gary Busey, Mandy Moore, James Woods, Ralph Macchio and several others play fictional versions of themselves that are hilarious and self-deprecating. (Saget hangs out at the high-class house of ill repute down the street from the Entourage manse, Macchio is quick to drop into a Karate Kid-like stance when challenged... in other words - the celebrity appearances aren't just cameos - they're actually worked into the story, and they're FUNNY.)
Sharpening Its Edge
2009-08-24 - After watching the second season of ENTOURAGE, I will be getting the rest of the seasons and watching them. And probably not as fast as I'd like. Because I have to work and sleep and stuff.
In the second season, the show feels like its coming into better focus, the characters are sharper, the tensions are greater. And the comedy is funnier. Ari's new secretary, a gay Asian named Lloyd, is hilarious ("potty mouth," he pouts after a screaming call from Ari). Whether complaining that Ari's slurs are culturally inaccurate ("I'm from China, not Japan," Lloyd moans after one demeaning tirade) or playing as Ari's inside man during a "code red" at the agency, Lloyd is a great, funny addition to the show.
And Ari Gold is still too much fun to watch. This is one of those perfect casting moments that strike gold, like James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano.
This is not the kind of show that looks like they've just turned some cameras on in Hollywood and improvised more lame movie star stuff. The stories are very well crafted and the dialogue is spot-on.
ENTOURAGE comes across with an authenticity that makes it infinitely more "real" than anything on "Entertainment Tonight" and the E! Channel.
Great show 
2009-07-30 - I love the show but, I wish there was more content on the dvds . . .
great dvd
2009-07-14 - This is a great series and the dvd was fantastic. I sent it to my son in Iraq and he bought the rest of the seasons. He loved it.
If you liked the first, you will LOVE the second!
2008-11-28 - I think the negative review by amazon is a joke! For anyone that has seen the first season, the second season starts off right where the last left off without missing a beat. The gang meets new people, stars in new movies, has new problems, and makes new management decisions. The story revolves around a huge new movie that Vince doesn't want, then wants, with a co-star that Vince used to want, now doesn't, then does. It is all very exciting if you love entourage! Fun plot twists that were not there in the first season make this season even more fun to watch.
Enjoy!
