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What: “Got Surf? Two” videotape

Price: $26.95

How’s the plot? Doesn’t have one.

What about riveting dialogue? Nonexistent.

Character development? Nope.

How about the surf? Awesome.

This is a surfing video, after all, not a treatise on the human condition. And for what it is, it’s good entertainment for anyone who likes watching the best surfers in the world do their gymnastics on some of the most perfectly formed waves anywhere.

The video begins with a competition at Jeffrey’s Bay in South Africa, where consistent, curling overhead waves break in almost never-ending tubes. Shots from the shore show sets of such extraordinary shape they look computer enhanced. The water is glassy, and surfers such as Kelly Slater take off on seemingly never-ending right-hand rides--up and down the face, in and out of tubes. These guys are performing maneuvers most run-of-the-mill surfers can only dream about on waves most can’t even imagine.

The video then moves on to Tahiti for an altogether different type of wave--a heavy, left-breaking monster that resembles the inverse image of the killer waves at Maverick’s south of San Francisco. The rides are short, steep and intense, with thick, powerful barrels. “Fun,” was one word surfer Sasha Stocker had for the waves, adding, “Serious, nasty, perfect.”

Then it’s on to Pipeline in Hawaii, chronicling Slater’s sixth world title on waves big enough to swallow the pier at Huntington Beach . . . which brings us to the final segment.

The surf at Huntington for the U.S. Open is choppy, small and irregular, quite a comedown from the previous spots. That might explain the more frequent shots of bikini-clad beach-goers, an element that filmmaker Alexis Cottavoz-Usher managed to refrain from while the surf was worth watching.

The video, with music by such groups as the Offspring and Blink 182, is available by calling (888) 345-6484 or on the Internet at https://www.stormproof.com.