I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

As Good As It Gets

Absolutely Fantastic

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Richard and Emmeline Lestrange die leaving their son Paddy as the sole survivor. The rescue ship is overwhelmed with suspected cholera. Mr. Kearney, Mrs. Sarah Hargrave with her daughter Lilli, and Paddy renamed Richard are cast off in the lifeboat. Kearney threatens the toddlers and Sarah kills him. The trio ends up back at the original island. After Sarah's death, Lilli (Milla Jovovich) and Richard (Brian Krause) are left to themselves.The story gymnastics are annoying as heck to make the sequel basically a repeat of the original. I'm sure anybody would be laughing with derision at the silly plot repeat. The original has the possibility of being a guilty pleasure. This is an unforgivable embarrassment for anybody who actually likes the sequel. I have nothing against the two young actors. Milla obviously has more acting abilities than the usual model. However, there is simply no point to this sequel for an unworthy franchise.

I had never even heard about the blue lagoon movies until about a year ago. After finding out that shields was in the first movie I thought that it might be kind of interesting since she was one of my favorite actresses however after finding out that there was underage nudity in it my first though was "how could this be legal" since my understanding was the underage nudity was not legal in the united states. I put that  thought aside and decided to watch the movie anyway. After watching it I Saw just how innocent the nudity really was. There was nothing sexual at all about it. About a month or so after watching the original blue lagoon I found out that there was a sequel and that this one had mila jovovich  in it, another actress of whom I knew from the resident evil  series. I figured that this one might be just a good as the first one and for the most part it was. I mean don't get me wrong this was a wonderful movie and the story line was well thought out but the innocents that we saw from the first movie was taken away. In the first movie they grew up not knowing about puberty, pregnancy, and what your body goes though during that time. In this movie both of the young children were educated about the changes that their bodies would go through when they hit the age of puberty. If you put that aside and just watch both movies you will see that they are both great movies to watch. I personally cannot see how people can say that this movie or it's original with shields in it are in any way borderline child pornography. Okay so what I mean yes we do see  a frontal view of mila jovovich's breasts and she was only like 15 or so in this movie and during the first twenty minutes or so there are numerous scenes in which we see a frontal shot of young Courtney barilla who is only like 8 or 9 at the time but it's not like it is  anything that we've never seen growing up so I personally cannot see how people are so bent out of shape about seeing it in the movies but to each their own. Putting that aside both the original and it's sequel were great movies and their story lines were well thought out. They are both worth seeing and in my opinion are a perfect family movie for all ages. Younger children might not fully understand what is going on in the movie and parents might have to explain some things but both movies are family oriented.

*SPOILERS AHEAD* Call it morbid curiosity but I couldn't resist watching this sequel/remake/cash-in.The Bad 1. The Plot; (see the Good) A basic rehash of the BL as our Paddy gets rescued from the small craft the original BL couple Richard Snr and Emmeline were cast adrift in. Renamed Richard, his rescuing ship is now rife with cholera and his adoptive mother and her daughter, Lilli, find their way back to the original island. Plot devices repeated from the first film as his new guardian teaches the young children the facts of life and conveniently expires so that the young couple can go through adolescence, the discovery of love, sex etc etc much like the BL, except this time they are more knowing than the original couple. The wide-eyed innocence and charm of the first film is completely lost so the coming of age story had NO resonance. There were no important themes about life and death, parenthood, and familial love. Even the same scenes are repeated; the water-slide; swimming blissfully in the sea, love beneath a waterfall. I can't even comment on how Richard Jnr can outswim a shark (!) and his father couldn't but I'll let that one slide...2. Acting; Of all the criticisms against the BL about the poor acting from Shields and Atkins, this one is not any better. At least the first couple from the original movie had the excuse of having the mentality of eight year olds and their sparse, childish banter reflected this. This couple (Krause and Jovovich) say cringe-worthy pretentious things like "There's a baby growing inside of me... a woman knows these kinds of things".3. The Characterization; I never understood the motivations of these two except that they liked frolicking in the surf. At least in the first film one had the contrast between Richard Snr wanting to go back to civilisation and Emmeline who didn't, and the break-up in their friendship following Emmeline's failure to light the signal fire. The pivotal emotional point in the BL was when Richard Snr realised he had everything he wanted on the island and didn't hail down his father's ship when it did arrive.4. The Romance; Nope. Didn't feel it or root for the couple, especially when Richard Jnr starts making eyes at the new girl, pushing poor Lilli so far as to daub herself with clownish make-up and put some clothes on (!). In the first movie, Richard Snr rejected civilisation for his life with his new-found family.5. Cinematography; Bland. The first BL was much better and the underwater scenes felt magical.6. Music; Didn't really lift the scenes and barely noticeable except in the action sequences.The Good 1. The Plot; The last 25 minutes were interesting. A "What If" if "civilized" people came ashore. Well, they're not much better, being conniving strumpets, thieves and potential rapists. It also worked better as an action-adventure film than the first film.2. Social commentary for young ladies; make-up is bad, clothes are BAD, anorexia is even WORSE. Seriously, though, I felt sorry for Lilli when she tried to copy her rival for Richard Jnr's affections, going so far to put on make-up and clothes and refusing to eat. I didn't see the anorexia part coming...Overall, this film is barely adequate if you've never seen the first one. And if you liked the BL, you won't like its sequel. For those of you who enjoyed "Return to the BL", I urge you to check out the far superior original.

Picking up where "The Blue Lagoon" (made about 11 years prior) left off, but changing the ending somewhat in order to facilitate the new story, this sequel made barely a ripple at the box office. When the original boy and girl are found dead in their boat by a small ship, their still-alive son is rescued and put in the care of young mother and widow Pelikan. However, soon afterwards, the crew begins to contract and spread cholera and so Pelikan, her new son and her infant daughter are put out to sea in a dinghy in the hopes that they can avoid death from the disease. Eventually, she and the children wash up on the same island from the first film and are conveniently able to live in the same elaborate tree house. The years go by and the children grow into tan, athletic Krause and nubile beauty Jovovich. With Pelikan having died before they reached puberty, the kids are left to figure out most of the facts of life themselves, all set amidst beautiful island scenery and backed by lush music provided by Basil Poledouris. Much like the first film, the kids fish, bathe, argue and make love while the threat of headhunters on the north die of the island looms. Where this film differs is in the arrival of civilization, so to speak, in the form of sea captain Blain, his precocious daughter Coburn and a crew of grizzled sailors. Krause and Jovovich soon learn that sometimes civilization is not as civilized as life in the wild. Pelikan bears most of the weight of the first half of the film and does a reasonably good job of it. She's given the unenviable task of acting most of her scenes either alone or opposite a couple of small children. Krause and Jovovich do not appear until nearly 45 minutes into the movie. Krause, who bears quite a likeness at times to Heath Ledger, is appealing enough, but suggests nothing beyond a neatly coiffed, California beach boy playing Lord of the Flies. He doesn't really get to cover any territory that wasn't already handled by his predecessor Christopher Atkins. Jovovich is stunning to look at, and performs admirably as well, but, again, is stuck redoing what Brooke Shields already did. Thus, the film, despite a few tweaks in the formula, comes off as an imitation or remake of the previous one. People who never watched the first film will likely be able to enjoy this one more than those who are fans of the original (not even counting the versions filmed in 1923 and 1949!) Coburn is appropriately snotty and manipulative, perhaps too convincingly so since she was scarcely heard from again after this! Entertaining enough on its own terms, it is certainly no classic and is fairly preposterous, but is also not the dog some people have made it out to be. It's basically a rehash, made in an attempt to wring a few more bucks out of a concept that worked well the first time.