Milla Jovovich: Return to the Blue Lagoon - Movie

Return to the Blue Lagoon
Cast :	Milla Jovovich, Brian Krause
Director :	William A. Graham
Studio :	Columbia Tristar Hom
Format :	Color, Closed-captioned
Released Date :	August 02, 1991
DVD Released Date :	December 07, 2004
Language :	English (Dubbed), French (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled), English (Original Language), Japanese (Subtitled), Chinese (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Audience Rating :	PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
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Customer Reviews

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Date	June 22, 2005
Summary	Blue Lagoon 2 - interesting twist
Content	I've also seen both Blue Lagoon stories, and like everybody else, was quite concerned with the lack of continuity and form between the two . . the child was older, the parents were sleeping/dead. . and whatever happened to the loyal dad floating around at sea that found his kids finally sleeping in that little dinghy? However, I was able to suspend reality and enjoy the second film by altering the first in my own mind. I have to say that as far as the berries were concerned, I always DID think that Paddy (the baby) had a better chance of survival as he only swallowed a berry or two. His parents each masticated (chewed) 20 - 25 berries each and swallowed them down. Much more opportunity for poison to openly enter the blood stream. But I digress... The second movie, while not as "brave" as the first in terms of "raw" sensuality was still quite enjoyable, I thought. I rather enjoyed the idea of two children who had "some" learning from a parent who had adequate time to teach them then left on their own. It combined a different take than the first film. In this film, the children have "some" idea of the values and mores of European civilization, but have to adapt those values to fit within their own experience. In the first film, the children were quite simply too young and alone for far too long to really understand much of anything except what they learned on their own. Because of these differences, I was able to enjoy each film in it's own right. I think both films are worth a look, but if pressed, I would still have to choose the original as the best of the two . . as originals usually are.

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Date	February 14, 2005
Summary	Sweet, but the original was better...
Content	I DID enjoy this movie, but I'm glad I watched the original 1980 version first. The parents are said to be alive in the original, but are just as quickly pronounced dead in the sequel (this is exactly how it happens in the two first books of the Blue Lagoon trilogy). The boy is taken by a widow and her infant to the very island he grew up on, to escape the Cholera on the boat. The boy and girl grow, become beautiful, and the mother dies. Bam! Now you have two hormonal teenagers alone on an island. You can guess what happens next. The movie attempts to "clean up" all the dirtiness from the first one. The only nudity shown is Lilli's (Milla Jovovich), and somewhat briefly at that. The actors do a better job than Brooke Shields and Chris Atkins did, but that's only because Brooke and Chris weren't all that good in the first place (Milla has done a whole bunch of good films, whereas Brooke is known best for inciting controversy in The Blue Lagoon, Pretty Baby, and her Calvin Klein jeans ads). I have to admit that the acting was better, and I enjoyed watching the characters interact. It's a good movie on its own. But compare it with the passion and purity of the first movie, and you're left, pardon the expression, dead in the water.

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Date	February 03, 2005
Summary	Pretty Lame
Content	Yeah, they died. They all died. The old salt had warned them the berries were poison and to never eat them. The toddler ate them first - then mom and dad decided to eat some to - so they could all go together. Now a sequel where the toddler who ate the poisonous berries DIDN'T die. Boo!

Rating
Date	December 15, 2004
Summary	Not as good as the original
Content	The first Blue Lagoon was daring and a bit controversial. It showed two children growing up without adults in their lives, growing up without inhibitions, without guidance, and learning some fundamental truths without help. It dared to show full-frontal nudity (carefully!) because that seemed natural. It had the courage to confront things like child birth for child-adults who had no idea of what was going on. That's some of what makes it a classic film, one which holds up even today. This film, for all that it is a sequel, comes across as a revisionist attempt to "clean up" the original. It starts where the previous film left off, with a small boat being seen by a sailing vessel. Unlike the end of the previous film, where all three occupants of the boat are pronounced alive, in this film the parents are dead, and only the child survives. He is taken aboard the sailing vessel and entrusted to the care of a recently widowed woman who has an infant daughter. The woman, Sarah Hargreaves (Lisa Pelikan), and the two children, are cast adrift in a lifeboat a short while later because the ship is infected with cholera (a virtual death sentence for all aboard) - they are cast adrift in the hope they may survive. By pure happenstance (alright, by a piece of not-very-clever script-writing) they happen to arrive at an island that is supposed to look awfully familiar. This time the children grow up with Sarah to teach them right and wrong, and all about God (she was a missionary), and so forth (all the things that were "wrong" in the first version). Eventually Sarah contracts pneumonia and dies, but not before she has time to explain how she'd like to be buried. Time passes and we get to see the new teenagers, Lilli (Milla Jovovich) and Richard (Brian Krause - best known as Leo in the TV show Charmed) doing the same sorts of things as we saw in the first film. All in all, I cannot recommend this poor-quality remake. Buy the original, certainly, but leave this one sitting on the shelf. Perhaps the one good reason to watch this film is as an object lesson, to see what the original film could have been like, had the makers not taken the risks that they did.

Rating
Date	November 28, 2004
Summary	THEY DID NOT DIE!!!
Content	ok people watch the first movie you will see at the end they are just sleeping when they are found. and in the begining of the second one they are dead???? how do they live in the first one but die in the sequel. and the child paddy was like 2 when they were found. but in return to the blue lagoon he is like 4 and re-named richard. how can the SAME director make two movies that are the same but with such huge differneces? and why now does everyone think that richard adn emmiline die? did they not watch the movie THERE ASLEEP!!!

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