And Indiana was just a total bitch. Christopher Atkins and Denise Richards cameo is appreciated. That the character not the actor is a teenager makes for a slightly subversive moment in an otherwise formulaic film. I'm left to wonder what decisions a modern day young couple would do. The plot of this movie differs a little from the other two Blue Lagoon movies, in the fact that they are not stranded as little kids, and grow up on the island.
The two manage to survive the desert vicissitudes, while finding out about each other and life. Only highlight is the scenery, Indiana Evans being the best of it. Seriously the acting in Dirty Dancing and Twilight were better. Emma attends the prom, and Dean eventually decides to go as well after a little push by his father. Brenton is good looking and could have had better lines.
They should have been found a year or more later if at all. How they get on the island was pretty weak but it really doesn't help that even after months on this island both teens have perfect hair and make-up still as if they just stepped off a magazine cover. I knew with in the first two minutes that I wasn't going like it. I like to see how the teenagers slowly fall in love during their exile. They did what the movie needs but nothing more.
Including Denise Richards as the mother of the female castaway. They were found way too quickly. Baby eats bad berries, parents eat them to die with baby. Yet strangely enough it works, because it's also a story about young love. Both come to realize that life can never really be the same after this experience. As much as I've talked down on the film I will admit that it was never horrid and thankfully it was never boring. Net is absolutely legal and contain only links to other sites on the Internet : dailymotion.
He finds the courage to reconnect with his estranged father , and they even share a couple of not-at-all forced hugs! This has to be one of the worst films I have seen in quite some time. I'll watch Cast Away when I want to see details. Namely: With modern technology, and the world pretty much fully mapped. I can't believe I sat through this movie. Sure there are flat muddy alluvial islands in the delta of the Orinoco where nobody lives, but these glorified mudflats and sandbars are not volcanic islands like the one they were on. We go from one scene in which the female wants off the island to the very next scene where she is perfectly happy being alone with the male.
After this, they begin adapting to their new temporary life rather well. And Dean showing up at the dance without knowing that Emma is alone suggests Emma's friend advise him that she wasn't going to the dance with the quarterback and if he wants her come and get her. In spite of the spoiler that I read, I really enjoyed the movie up until the ending starting at after they are rescued and Dean shows up at her window the first night. Not to mention that Dean is coincidentally equipped with survival skills and knows how to be independent. Why are they where clothing on a tropical island after making love? No nude scenes like in the 1980 semi-classic. She let that daughter go awfully quick. They just gave up and went home? His hair doesn't even grow on his head.
What drove me nuts was the lack of realistic human emotions. And the female remains completely smooth as well. On screen chemistry can make the most mundane movie warrant a second watch and make you believe in the characters. An audience expects a lot more skin in a Blue Lagoon movie. The characters dont have chemistry at all, btw.
It just seems to lack a decent plot, cohesive writing and structure, and expects the audience to just accept way too many things that are not consistent. There are to good part's that's the location and the girl. They don't even ask if the horny teenagers had engaged in sex during their more than three months on the island. Thats as believable as Brenton not having to shave once Fate has it that high school teens, he's a rebel blaming himself for his mother's death and the perfect young lady, become stranded off some island while they were on a class excursion to do volunteer work. But is so very bad. I watched it anyways mostly because the main actor 'dean' is hot. He caused the whole thing.
Beyond those things, we have the actual plot of the film. They search the island for life, but learn they are alone, and now stranded, the dinghy having washed away while they were exploring. The girl ignores you,my friend. Are we not even going to try and discuss how inane that is that he wouldn't know that he has just had sex with a virgin? When they are finally rescued in a completely anti-climactic way , they return home and the movie takes an odd turn where both characters as cold towards one another and seem to forget all the bonding and changing they did on the island. The boat scene was a dumb idea. On their island, the teenagers tell each other about themselves and their relatives, with scenes as in the film, but shown in retrospect. Should have been the same island as originals, more realistic someone could be lost in the South Pacific.