Watched Return to the Blue Lagoon yesterday. It was directed by William A. Graham and starring Milla Jovovich, Brian Krause and Lisa Pelikan.
It was a decent sequel, the same old story but slightly different. Of course it didn´t have the same magical 80s atmosphere as the 1980 version and Jovovich/Krause didn´t have the same chemistry Shields/Atkins had.
On the positive side, Milla (then 16) looks stunning and they had re-created the original settings quite well.
While The Blue Lagoon was a box-office success (budget 4,5 mil./gross 58,8 mil.), this one seems to have bombed badly (budget 11 mil./gross 2,8 mil.)
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Geesh, they didnt even TRY to make his hair look shipwrecked and disheveled, did they? He looks like he just walked outta VIDAL SASSOON!
No Ive never seen this one. I think a lot of people knew it was gonna be a retread of teh first one and sometimes people find that insulting that you try to make them watch 'the same' movie twice!
And I think since the original BLUE LAGOON, which was quite scandalous in its day, came out a LOT of other stuff has come out thats shattered all the once-were-movie-taboos....so the idea of two teenagers making love in the sand wasnt that shocking anymore.
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I liked this. Then again, as has already been said; it's almost the same as the first film.
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liked the original but havnt seen this one. will do after reading this thread.
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