May 28, 2002
By Jae-Ha Kim
Chicago Sun-Times
You will not see any nudity
in "The Real World You Never Saw--Chicago," now out on video and DVD. However,
you will be inundated with more scatological humor than the average "Beavis
and Butt-Head" reunion.
It's difficult to shock
an audience of "The Real World" fans when they've already seen the Chicago
cast walk around naked and grope everyone in sight.
This bonus show seems much
longer than 44 minutes, most likely because the producers let the kids
sit around and pontificate rather than showing us what we really want to
know: Do Keri and Kyle ever admit to hooking up? Did Theo ever convince
Aneesa to make out with him? Was the uninsured Tonya able to pay her hospital
bill? Did a modeling agency ever snap up Chris? And did Cara ever confirm
whether the rock star she made out with was Todd Mohr of Big Head Todd
and the Monsters?
Instead, we get blurred-out
shots of Aneesa's bare breasts and outtakes of the cast literally bumping
heads with the MTV cameramen. How very "America's Funniest Home Videos."
Then there are the lies
when bystanders ask the kids why a camera crew is trailing them. Kyle even
goes so far as to say they're filming for the soft-core Spice Channel.
Speaking of which, here's something you won't even see on that naughty
network: three blondes popping a stud's back zits. Ewwwwwwwwww!
In the first season of "The
Real World," there was a scandal when Becky and a crew member had an affair.
He lost his job. In this 11th season, one of them (surprise--it's boy-hungry
Cara) develops a crush on hottie director Richard Kim. She admits to flirting
with other men hoping to make Kim jealous. Doesn't work. Kim says flat-out
he's not interested.
For interviews, the cast
is divided into groups, and the one with Kyle, Keri and Cara is particularly
snarky. Like the popular high school crowd ostracizing the class geek,
they poke fun at Tonya and her frequent misuse of the English language
(she referred to the MTV production team of Bunim/Murray as "Bill Murray").
And during a conversation about bad dancers, Chris is singled out. In turn,
he quotes one of this paper's "Real World Confidential" columns: "The Chicago
Sun-Times said I couldn't dance my way out of a box."
The extras include a tour
of their Wicker Park abode and a look at the house blueprints (yawn). From
the cast profiles, we learn that Kyle likes aggressive sex but isn't into
spanking.
Enough said.
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