Taking control of the small craft, she eventually guides them back to the island of the first film. With water and food running short, the crew member escorting Sarah and the children becomes dangerous, so Sarah takes the only course of action she feels suitable to preserve the children: she strikes him and throws him overboard.
Struck by cholera, the crew of the ship start to die and the captain sets Sarah, Richard, Lilli and a healthy crew member on a lifeboat in an attempt to preserve their lives. Taken in by Sarah, a widow with an infant baby girl Lilli, Richard (Paddy) is cared for in a return to civilization. Established in the first film, the only word Paddy ever says is "Richard", so the crew assumes Richard is the infant's name. We open the film with a ship finding the craft with our original characters in it, Richard and Emmeline dead and Paddy alive.
But I admit, there’s also a lot of butt and side boob action.While the general theme of this film resembles "The Blue Lagoon" (the film for which this is a sequel), the basic plot is quite different. There are some serious close calls with a hungry shark, and this one actually looks like a real predator (as opposed to Spielberg’s mechanical version). Garnish with an umbrella.įor anybody who fears that this is just a romance novel in cinema form, let me re-assure you- it’s actually Jaws with better looking actors. Shake all ingredients together in a cocktail shaker with ice, then strain into a rocks glass filled with crushed ice. While viewing Return to the Blue Lagoon, I recommend drinking a Blue Beachcomber. Milla Jovovich is abysmal in Return, but hey, what do you expect when her biggest task is to hide her nipples behind her long hair and feathery jewelry? And Brian Krause looks like a blonde Taylor Kitsch in minimal clothing, so that’s just all kinds of irresistible.Īlthough these teens didn’t need alcohol to loosen their inhibitions and relax (being naked all the time tends to do that anyway), I still prefer watching this with a tropical tiki drink. I actually saw Return to the Blue Lagoon years before The Blue Lagoon, and I gotta say- I prefer the sequel! Mainly because I never found Christopher Atkins remotely attractive with his labradoodle perm, but also because these new kids seem to have a better handle on thatched hut engineering. Do I care that they’re basically the same movie? Of course not! How else to explain Return to the Blue Lagoon ( DVD/ Download), technically a sequel to the Brooke Shields/Christopher Atkins romance classic, but in my mind more of a reboot. Remember when movie studios used to wait over 10 years to make a movie’s sequel, rather than 10 months? Maybe they thought audiences forgot about the original by that point, clearing the way for a nearly identical plot structure. Image credit: Return to the Blue Lagoon, 1991
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