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I love this movie!

posted 20 years ago by darkromanwine
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Okay, so I've only heard about the first one (and never actually seen it), but obviously I didn't need to see the first to understand the second. It's not the best movie ever made, but ever since I was a little girl I have really adored this movie! I was only 4 when it came out, but thanks to my older sisters, I grew up watching this movie with them. There's nothing really wrong with it and it's actually interesting to see how people without their everyday materials live life - no TV, no radio, nothing except for nature's resources. I took a major liking to Brain Krause in this movie (and I was glad to see him resurface on the WB's Charmed). Out of a 10, I give Return to the Blue Lagoon an 8! :)

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[–] cheez_it_2004 18 years ago

I love this movie too, but the thing that really disappointed me was the fact that in this movie, baby Paddy a.k.a. baby Richard's parents were dead, but at the end of the first one they were presummed alive but sleeping.

[–] dzerted_island_grrrl 18 years ago

SPOILER WARNING!

Yeah, it's a bummer. Even Brooke Shields (Emmeline) was upset when she found out. But it follows how it happens in the books (there were three). At the end of the first, when Arthur Lestrange sees Richard and Emmeline in their little boat, he asks the captain of the ship he came on if they're dead, and the captain replies that they are sleeping. The second book opens as Arthur watches them take their final breaths and then lay still, and he says "No, they are dead."

The explanation given by the book for their being dead while their baby lived is that while Richard and Emmeline ate the poison berries that the baby put in the boat, the baby only recieved a small dose in his mother's milk (in the book, I don't believe the baby ate any of the berries himself, unlike in the movie), so he wasn't killed.

The DVD commentary for The Blue Lagoon says that they had written a script where Richard and Emmeline WERE alive, and they were taken back to Boston by his father (her uncle), and what struggles they had adjusting to modern society. According to Randall Kleiser and Douglas Day Stewart, however, it would have taken so long to get the project off the ground that Brooke would have been closer to twenty when they would have filmed, so it was abandoned.

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[–] cheez_it_2004 18 years ago

Yeah I read all three of the books two years ago, kinda boring, and the movies don't really go with the books too well...

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[–] ClassyLittleLassy 18 years ago

Yeah, this movie was awesome. LOVED it too!

[–] sugacat2004 18 years ago

ditto! :) it's beautiful. I've seen it twise ,and I'm gonna watch it again...

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[–] teacher694 9 years ago

Yes, I also enjoyed this movie sequel. It wasn't quite as good as the original, not quite as sensual, but definitely entertaining.