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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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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. May 21, 2013 | Rating: 1/4 | Full Review…
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.
John Hartl
Things 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. May 21, 2013 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…
Things 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.
Jay Boyar
Return to the Blue Lagoon is neither campy enough to be howlingly funny nor prurient enough to be provocative. May 21, 2013 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
Return to the Blue Lagoon is neither campy enough to be howlingly funny nor prurient enough to be provocative.
Carrie Rickey
Jovovich is a beauty recalling the very young Myrna Loy, Krause is boyishly handsome; both are capable and should survive this particular shipwreck. May 21, 2013 | Full Review…
Jovovich is a beauty recalling the very young Myrna Loy, Krause is boyishly handsome; both are capable and should survive this particular shipwreck.
Kevin Thomas
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. May 21, 2013 | Rating: 1/4 | Full Review…
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.
Mark Caro
Return to the Blue Lagoon is a pointless spinoff of the 1980 hit, which was itself a remake of a 1949 British pic. Mar 26, 2009 | Full Review…
Return to the Blue Lagoon is a pointless spinoff of the 1980 hit, which was itself a remake of a 1949 British pic.
Variety Staff
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. Jul 25, 2014 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…
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.
Jo Berry
The lagoon is the locale to which this new movie disastrously returns. Jul 11, 2014 | Full Review…
The lagoon is the locale to which this new movie disastrously returns.
Bill von Maurer
Graham paints a picture of love that is tediously sexist. One for pervs and frustrated holidaymakers only. May 21, 2013 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Graham paints a picture of love that is tediously sexist. One for pervs and frustrated holidaymakers only.
Miranda Sawyer
The movie is occasionally cutesy. That's the worst of it. You can't call it gross, but it is cutesy. May 21, 2013 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
The movie is occasionally cutesy. That's the worst of it. You can't call it gross, but it is cutesy.
Lou Cedrone
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. Aug 2, 2011 | Rating: D | Full Review…
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.
Brian Orndorf
Even the soft porn is a total yawn. Aug 3, 2009 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…
Even the soft porn is a total yawn.
Remember Brooke Shields and Christopher Atkins from The Blue Lagoon 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...
Super Reviewer
A sequel that I remember very little of, other than the fact that Milla Jovovich was in it.
This was really quite atrocious. It seemed to start off okay for a bad follow on to a movie that was probably ill advised to start with. But the minute the kids grew up and became Milla Jovovich and Brian Krause, it was all over. (Admittedly Brian Krause is not that bad, and may even be a slight improvement on the original star, but that's not saying a whole lot). The story totally lost the suspense the original had about who was on the other side of the island, the story is jumbled and unconvincing and don't even get me started on the "bad guys" who may or may not have been intended to be Australian. (As the film was shot here and i could clearly hear the accents, though they were trying not to sound it... I think) Big mess of a film. Milla can't act at all. If you really have to, watch the original instead.
One of the least welcome sequels ever about the son of the original castaways gets cast away himself on yet another tropical island with a pretty girl and her mother.
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