The Blue Lagoon

Starring:Brooke Shields, Christopher Atkins, Leo McKern, William Daniels, Elva Josephson, Glenn Kohan, Alan Hopgood, Gus Mercurio, Jeffrey Kleiser, Bradley Pryce, Chad Timmerman, Gert Jacoby, Alex Hamilton, Richard Evanson
Director: Randal Kleiser
Studio: Sony Pictures
Product Type: DVD

Editorial Review:
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The cinematography by Néstor Almendros garnered him an Oscar nomination. Unfortunately, the performance by then child star Brooke Shields garnered her a nomination, too--for a Razzie Award. She won, he didn't.

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The cinematography by Néstor Almendros garnered him an Oscar nomination. Unfortunately, the performance by then child star Brooke Shields garnered her a nomination, too--for a Razzie Award. She won, he didn't.

Customer Reviews:

Blue Lagoon is not blue........2007-04-20

Blue Lagoon is not a blue (raunchy, erotic, etc.) movie at all. It is an interesting examination of the scenario it presents. I have never understood why the critics all rate it so poorly. And I don't even understand why almost everyone scorns the dialogue, and the acting. It all seemed reasonable and realistic enough to me, given the ages of the protagonists (not the actors). What's the matter with the carpers? This is a fine and beautiful movie, much better than lots that are rated higher.

just the way i remembered.......2007-02-21

i hadn't seen this movie in years. still love it

Age of innocence and embarrassment.......2006-09-16

**Possible spoilers** In this infamous movie, Richard and Emmeline land as children on a remote island with the gruff but loveable Paddy. Not long after Paddy shows them the basics of survival, Paddy dies and the two youngsters are left all alone and forced to fend for themselves. Nature takes its course and it isn't long before the teenaged Emmeline becomes pregnant. What are the fates if these three? It would be all too easy to conclude this is a tale of morality, funded by a religious conservative group and filmed to warn kids and their parents about the dangers of sex before marriage, the price of ignorance and the importance of parental involvement in a child's life. A pregnant teen with no job, no health insurance and an unemployed husband, forced to live off the charity of others. Get thee to a nunnery. Yet I am going to go against the grain on this one and say that I don't think that was the purpose behind this film. If the goal was to serve as a warning, then why is there a happy ending even though there is no repentance? Certainly they must be made to pay for their sins?! This blatant effrontery and refutation of providence very obviously signifies an exercise of free will and desire for base pleasures. These children experience puberty in a very innocent and natural manner, without all the social stigmas and peer pressures that normally accompany this period of life. In this way, the film resembles a documentation of human development and a social study. Plot aside, the acting is not especially good, though it would be difficult for most of us to deliver some of these lines with a straight face. Not a bad film, just not all that great either.

It was great and awful at the same time.......2006-08-07

Blue Lagoon was a commercial success but due to the terrible acting and the cheesy storyline, the movie did very bad with the critics.

I personally loved the beautiful scenery - the ocean and the islands - it really does make the movie worth seeing. And Brooke Shields was just about the most gorgeous girl to look at when she made this movie - this is why the movie was a commercial success. Though Brooke's acting was just terrible, she was so beautiful to look at that no one cared. Now Brooke is trying so hard to become a serious actress. She tries and tries and tries... however though she has improved somewhat, she just is not a good actress. I just watched Bob the Butler and throughout the movie her efforts to try so hard to act well made it that I just couldn't see her character. Brooke Shields trying so hard to act was all that anyone could see. However this doesn't for a second take away from her great beauty and sweet nature. She is a very nice person and a very lovely woman.

So if you haven't seen Blue Lagoon, see it if you just want to get lost in the beauty of nature and Brooke Shields. Otherwise you'll just laugh at this movie.

Gentle story of discovery and love.......2006-06-09

When Blue Lagoon came out in the theatres, I was 17, and my parents refused to allow me to see it. It wasn't until I was 29, married and had cable that I finally watched this contraversial film. While I still think it more appropriate for the actors to have been 18 years old, rather than 14, due to the mature themes and nudity, this is not your hot and sweaty sex movie. You can get that from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and just about any daytime/primetime TV, these days. What the story is about is 2 cousins, eventually left on their own, trying to survive in an Eden-like paradise, with the innocence of children and the natural curiosities that adolescence brings on. They love, gently and affectionately, they have a child, they are content. When a ship nears, they make a mutual decision to remain on the island and not try to be rescued. In a word, they are complete. While the acting overall was pretty pathetic, and the script trite in many places, there were some poignant moments; Em "meeting" God and laying flowers at his feet so they would not make Him mad and would go to Heaven. Richard contemplating the bleached skeleton of Paddy and realizing his own eventual fate, as well as that of Em and his son. The mutual decisions not to be saved, as well as saying farewell to each other after eating poison berries, when accidently drifting out to sea. One cannot but be heartbroken when they are found asleep, rather than dead, because there will be no place in society for them. They belong in paradise, and the director should have let them die. Even the music becomes sad rather than jubilant. Scenery gorgeous, a beautiful score, acting fairly bad. So, why do we keep returning to Blue Lagoon? Because wouldn't we all like to be marooned on a gorgeous tropical island with our perfect love and be left to live simple and fulfilling lives in paradise? 5 stars for the idea, 2-3 for acting, so gave it a 4.

The Blue Lagoon and Return to the Blue Lagoon (Double Feature)

Average customer rating:

Not a bad deal for the price!
best double feature of the year !!!
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'Blue Lagoon'/'Return To The Blue Lagoon'(Columbia Tristar)

The Blue Lagoon and Return to the Blue Lagoon (Double Feature)
Starring: Brooke Shields , Christopher Atkins , Leo McKern , William Daniels , and Elva Josephson
Director: Randal Kleiser , and William A. Graham
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Release Date: 2005-02-01

Customer Reviews:

Not a bad deal for the price!.......2007-05-12

The first movie is a good one for a rainy afternoon. The second one is nothing but a rehashed version of the first. But for the price it is featured at on Amazon I won't complian.

best double feature of the year !!!.......2006-11-05

These are two of the best movies that I've purchased this year..

WYSIWYG.......2005-10-09

If you need a movie to fill a void of brook shield this will do.

'Blue Lagoon'/'Return To The Blue Lagoon'(Columbia Tristar).......2005-03-12

I give it 2 1/2 stars.The first movie,the 1980 sappy tear-jerker should be seen with a female that you're either trying to impress or someone you're already involved with.I thought the original was okay.Plenty of beautiful scenic shots and decent job of acting by the two teens(that were ship wrecked years earlier)that are in love.Richard(Chistopher Atkins)and Emmeline(Brook Shields)experience a life together that is nearly impossible in the real world.Some nice nude scenes from(what I assume)to be a stand in for Shields.The sequel 'Return To...' (1991)I thought was a complete waste of time and trouble.Didn't even come close to standing up to the first film.Upside is it comes with the original,anyway.

Return to Blue Lagoon (Full Screen Edition)

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Worst Case of Sequel Gone Bad, I've Ever Seen.
A good way to pass an afternoon
not much of a storyline
Why?
ugh

Return to Blue Lagoon (Full Screen Edition)
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It took 11 years for the sequel to The Blue Lagoon to materialize. In the naturalistic, romanticized world conjured by the films, however, one begins where the other ended. Although Emmeline and Richard die at sea, their son is rescued by a passing ship and taken in by widowed mother Sarah (Lisa Pelikan). When the crew comes down with cholera, Sarah leaves the ship with daughter Lilli and Richard Jr. They wash up on a familiar island in the South Pacific--the "blue lagoon" of the earlier film. Sarah raises the urchins as best she can but succumbs to illness after a few years on the island. The story line then echoes that of the original film. The cute kids become attractive teenagers (model-turned-actress Milla Jovovich and Brian Krause) and friendship turns to wariness, eventually blossoming into love. That love is tested when they're--finally--granted the opportunity to return to civilization. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

Customer Reviews:

Worst Case of Sequel Gone Bad, I've Ever Seen........2007-03-20

I recently rented both of these movies at the same time. Big mistake. Obviously, the sequel was never meant to be seen in the company of the original.
how can a serious screenplay writer ever even think to end the 1st movie one way, and re-write the 2nd move to completely discount that 1st ending?

Given the storyline and the writing of it, you can't blame the actors, but the writers.
Brian Krause and the rest of the cast did a great job with what they had to work with; a badly written storyline with too much of the same thing as the original.

There was not enough difference in it to make it worth watching.
huge disappointment.

A good way to pass an afternoon.......2006-12-06

I really liked this movie. I found it suspenseful, and romantic. In fact this was my favorite of the two. Lilli & richard had a wedding ceremony, that i loved, and I think this movie showed more actual "love" than the first, Between brooke and chris, I think it was more about curiosity and hormones. not to say that i didnt like the first, but naysayers should at least give this movie a chance. you just may be surprised

not much of a storyline.......2006-06-29

not much storyline but if you like milla alot like i do this show is a must.She is simply gorgeous in this movie.Also the location where this movie is filmed is the kind of island locale we'd all like to be shipwrecked(with milla of course).

Why?.......2006-01-01

I saw the Blue Lagoon when I was 13 it was risque, the acting was not the best but Brooke was a top model and Chris was gorgeous,I didn't even know that a second movie had been made. I was shopping came across it and bought it thinking, "wow part 2 maybe they survived and finally made it do san frocisco". Boy was I disappointed, Milla is gorgeous she makes Brooke look like and ugly stepsister, Bruce although not as handsome as Chris looked ok. But the acting just like the first was horrible. This movie was made just to show off some young hot bodies. It's a rip off of the original but done with less artistic integrity. At least the first movie was gorgeous, pure you felt as if the two kids were truely discovering themselves and each other. This one they are just reading lines from a page. Why was this made?

ugh.......2005-10-22

this was just an excuse to have beautiful naked adolescence running around on a beach in Fiji.
Ugh.

Average customer rating:

Blue Lagoon is not blue.
just the way i remembered
Age of innocence and embarrassment
It was great and awful at the same time
Gentle story of discovery and love

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Customer Reviews:

Blue Lagoon is not blue........2007-04-20

just the way i remembered.......2007-02-21

i hadn't seen this movie in years. still love it

Age of innocence and embarrassment.......2006-09-16

It was great and awful at the same time.......2006-08-07

Gentle story of discovery and love.......2006-06-09

Average customer rating:

Blue Lagoon is not blue.
just the way i remembered
Age of innocence and embarrassment
It was great and awful at the same time
Gentle story of discovery and love

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Starring: Brooke Shields , Christopher Atkins , Leo McKern , William Daniels , and Elva Josephson
Director: Randal Kleiser
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Customer Reviews:

Blue Lagoon is not blue........2007-04-20

just the way i remembered.......2007-02-21

i hadn't seen this movie in years. still love it

Age of innocence and embarrassment.......2006-09-16

It was great and awful at the same time.......2006-08-07

Gentle story of discovery and love.......2006-06-09

Average customer rating:

Blue Lagoon is not blue.
just the way i remembered
Age of innocence and embarrassment
It was great and awful at the same time
Gentle story of discovery and love

The Blue Lagoon [Region 2]
Starring: Brooke Shields , Christopher Atkins , Leo McKern , William Daniels , and Elva Josephson
Director: Randal Kleiser
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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Customer Reviews:

Blue Lagoon is not blue........2007-04-20

just the way i remembered.......2007-02-21

i hadn't seen this movie in years. still love it

Age of innocence and embarrassment.......2006-09-16

It was great and awful at the same time.......2006-08-07

Gentle story of discovery and love.......2006-06-09

Average customer rating:

Worst Case of Sequel Gone Bad, I've Ever Seen.
A good way to pass an afternoon
not much of a storyline
Why?
ugh

Return to the Blue Lagoon [Region 2]
Starring: Milla Jovovich , Brian Krause , Lisa Pelikan , Courtney Barilla , and Garette Ratliff Henson
Director: William A. Graham
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Customer Reviews:

Worst Case of Sequel Gone Bad, I've Ever Seen........2007-03-20

A good way to pass an afternoon.......2006-12-06

not much of a storyline.......2006-06-29

Why?.......2006-01-01

ugh.......2005-10-22

this was just an excuse to have beautiful naked adolescence running around on a beach in Fiji.
Ugh.

Average customer rating:

Blue Lagoon is not blue.
just the way i remembered
Age of innocence and embarrassment
It was great and awful at the same time
Gentle story of discovery and love

The Blue Lagoon [Region 2]
Starring: Brooke Shields , Christopher Atkins , Leo McKern , William Daniels , and Elva Josephson
Director: Randal Kleiser
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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