Return to the Blue Lagoon (1991)
Average Rating: 2.3/10
Reviews Counted: 28
Fresh: 0 | Rotten: 28
Despite its lush tropical scenery and attractive leads, Return to the Blue Lagoon is as ridiculous as its predecessor, and lacks the prurience and unintentional laughs that might make it a guilty pleasure.
Average Rating: 2.8/10
Critic Reviews: 10
Fresh: 0 | Rotten: 10
Despite its lush tropical scenery and attractive leads, Return to the Blue Lagoon is as ridiculous as its predecessor, and lacks the prurience and unintentional laughs that might make it a guilty pleasure.
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Movie Info
This sequel to the surprise box office hit The Blue Lagoon (1980) mimics its predecessor's romantic adventure formula of a lush tropical locale inhabited by scantily clad, nubile teens discovering their sexuality. Spotted adrift in a boat with his deceased parents Richard and Emmeline, a baby boy is rescued by a passing ship. Adopted by the widow Hargrove (Lisa Pelikan), infant Richard is soon at sea again after he, his new mother and her baby daughter Lilli abandon ship in the face of a cholera
Jan 1, 1991 Wide
Nov 5, 2002
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
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Cast
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Milla Jovovich
Lilli -
Brian Krause
Richard -
Lisa Pelikan
Sarah Hargrave -
Courtney Phillips
Young Lilli -
Nana Coburn
Sylvia -
Emma James
Lilli-as an Infant -
Jackson Barton
Richard-as an Infant -
Brian Blain
Captain Hilliard -
Peter Hehir
Quinlan -
Pita Degei
Chief -
John Dicks
Penfield -
Annabel E. Graham
Baby -
Garette Ratliff Hens...
Young Richard -
John Keightley
LeStrange -
John Mann
1st Captain -
Gus Mercurio
1st Mate -
Mikaele Nasau
Lone Cannibal -
Alexander Petersons
Giddens -
Wayne Pygram
Kearney -
Todd Rippon
Gullion -
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John Turnbull
Dawes
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All Critics (28) | Top Critics (10) | Fresh (0) | Rotten (28) | DVD (6)
The travelogue-style photography is soothing, the bodies are pretty and the music isn't offensive, but feature-length movies can't survive on the ingredients for a standard airline commercial.
Top CriticThings are pretty much the same for the semi-nude kids in this movie as they were for the semi-nude kids in the first Blue Lagoon.
Return to the Blue Lagoon is neither campy enough to be howlingly funny nor prurient enough to be provocative.
Jovovich is a beauty recalling the very young Myrna Loy, Krause is boyishly handsome; both are capable and should survive this particular shipwreck.
When an old scallawag spies on Lilli bathing naked in a waterfall, we civilized viewers are primed to condemn him. But we're all scallawags here.
Return to the Blue Lagoon is a pointless spinoff of the 1980 hit, which was itself a remake of a 1949 British pic.
Graham paints a picture of love that is tediously sexist. One for pervs and frustrated holidaymakers only.
The movie is occasionally cutesy. That's the worst of it. You can't call it gross, but it is cutesy.
At 15 years of age, I wanted to live inside this screen world of freedom and loinclothed abandon. Today, I wanted these kids to fall on some coral.
Even the soft porn is a total yawn.
A movie whose best features are its lush tropical vistas has evident limitations.
Not even teen lust can justify watching this film.
Just say no.
They had to wait over ten years to make a sequel to Randal Kleiser's Blue Lagoon (which is itself a remake of a 1949 British movie) because they had to wait for a generation who wouldn't remember how really awful the 1980 film was.
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well, sadly, they died at sea. But happily their baby boy was saved. trouble is, the boat that rescues him has the plague so, he is set adrift again, this time in the company of a widow and her daughter. They end up stranded on the same island, where the widow raises them, dies and they grow up beautifully as Milla Jovovich and Brian Krause. The two teenagers have to fend for themselves and are soon drooling for each other too...