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Return to the Blue Lagoon (1991)

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Reviews Counted:20

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Rotten:20

Average Rating:1.9/10

Runtime: 1 hr 42 mins

Genre: Action/Adventure

Synopsis: 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... 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. [More]

Starring: Milla Jovovich, Brian Krause, Lisa Pelikan, Peter Hehir

Starring: Milla Jovovich, Brian Krause, Lisa Pelikan, Peter Hehir

Director: William A. Graham

Director: William A. Graham

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A movie whose best features are its lush tropical vistas has evident limitations.

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07/31/09
TV Guide's Movie Guide

Like a sex education film made by semi-liberated nuns, the movie keeps its sticky truths hidden beneath a veneer of leering cleanliness.

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
02/09/06
Time Out

Even the soft porn is a total yawn.

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08/03/09
Total Film

Not even teen lust can justify watching this film.

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11/04/03
Alex Sandell
Alex Sandell
Juicy Cerebellum

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07/25/03
Audrey Rock-Richardson
Audrey Rock-Richardson
Tooele Transcript-Bulletin (Utah)

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11/15/02
Brian J. Arthurs
Brian J. Arthurs
Beach Reporter (Southern California)

The Fijian background looks pretty, but there's no escaping the fact that the tropical flowers and trees seem smarter and more appealing than the people.

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05/20/03
Caryn James
Caryn James
New York Times

Just say no.

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Chris Hicks
Chris Hicks
Deseret News, Salt Lake City

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Emanuel Levy
Emanuel Levy
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Up until now, I thought it was pretty near impossible to feel nostalgia for The Blue Lagoon. But darned if life isn't full of surprises.

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Hal Hinson
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John Esther
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Pasadena Weekly

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08/24/02
John J. Puccio
John J. Puccio
DVDTown.com

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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Nicolas Lacroix
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07/30/02
Philip Martin
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

The sincere idiocy of this film really has to be seen to be appreciated -- not that I think there is any need for you to see, or appreciate, it.

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Thomas Delapa
Thomas Delapa
Boulder Weekly

Return to the Blue Lagoon is a pointless spinoff of the 1980 hit, which was itself a remake of a 1949 British pic.

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