Return To The Blue Lagoon (1991)

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Starring:	Milla Jovovich \| Brian Krause \| Lisa Pelikan \| Peter Hehir
Director:	William A. Graham
Studio:	SONY PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time:	97 mins
Genres:	Drama
Languages:	English
Released:	December 02, 2002
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In this sequel to the 1980 original, Richard and Emmeline, the two teens from the first film, and their infant son, set out to sea in a boat. The parents die, but the infant is rescued by a passing ship. Before long, plague breaks out on the ship, and a young woman and her infant daughter take the baby boy and wind up on the very same island where the boy was born. The days become years as three stranded castaways, make a life for themselves. When the woman dies, the two now grown children (Milla Jovovich and Brian Krause) must learn to cope. Their life together is blissful, but not without physical and emotional challenges.

Rating of 1 stars out of 5

While 1980's The Blue Lagoon — itself a remake of a 1949 film — had a certain grimly humorous value, this sequel lacks even that as Brian Krause — playing the son of Brooke Shields's character from the original — and The Fifth Element's Milla Jovovich experience puberty and nudity on a deserted island. A textbook example of a disaster that amazingly manages not only to contain bad acting and an appalling script, but also some of the most unconvincing love scenes ever committed to film.

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6 out of 6 people found the following review helpful:

Reasonable sequel

A Customer from Scotland, 30th October, 2004

Takes off where the first film left off. The kid survives but not the parents, and then, a little ridiculously, the rescuers all become ill and the kid and a woman (who conveniently has a young child) have to abandon ship and they end up back on the same island! After that it's very much like the original, though not quite so good.

If you liked the first one, you'll like this; if not, don't bother unless you are a keen Milla Jovovich fan. If you haven't seen the original, see it before thinking about the sequel.

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2 out of 2 people found the following review helpful:

Not worth making a sequel!

cat2191488 from Berkshire, 23rd January, 2005

Having caught the original “Blue Lagoon” a few years ago on TV, I was interested to see this. Like the original, the idea of a girl and boy being marooned on a desert island has its interesting points. Having seen the original, however, I was at a bit of a loss to explain the point of the sequel. For the first hour of the film, there were no significant differences in the plot, and when the plot did begin to diverge from the original, the outcome didn't seem to be that different.

From the start I found it slightly annoying that the sequel was meant to be a carry-on from the original- the boat containing the two original castaways and their son is found, but the grown-ups are dead and the son eventually ends up marooned with another girl. Slight problem: in the original, they had already been found by a completely different set of people, and at that time all three were still alive!

From what I remember, the picture quality of the original isn't wonderful, and when the scenery of the film is so amazing, it is worth something that the sequel is sharper and brighter. Apart from that, however, I really couldn't see the point to it.

If you've seen the original, you aren't missing anything by not watching this. If you haven't seen the original, watch that instead.

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