In this sequel to The Blue Lagoon (1980), two children are stranded on a beautiful island in the South Pacific. With no adults to guide them, the two make a simple life together and eventual... Read allIn this sequel to The Blue Lagoon (1980), two children are stranded on a beautiful island in the South Pacific. With no adults to guide them, the two make a simple life together and eventually become suntanned teenagers in love.In this sequel to The Blue Lagoon (1980), two children are stranded on a beautiful island in the South Pacific. With no adults to guide them, the two make a simple life together and eventually become suntanned teenagers in love.
- Awards
- 6 nominations
- Young Lilli
- (as Courtney Phillips)
- Young Richard
- (as Garette Patrick Ratliff)
- Director
- Writers
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThis was Milla Jovovich's first starring role. She was 15 when she starred in this movie, including the nude scenes.
- GoofsRichard continually beats the shark swimming across the reef. A shark can swim from between 25-45 mph, whereas most Olympic swimmers can only swim about 5mph. He would stand no chance.
- Quotes
[last lines]
Lilli Hargrave: There's a baby growing inside me.
Richard Lestrange: How do you know?
Lilli Hargrave: [smiles] A woman knows these kinds of things, that's how.
Richard Lestrange: [excited] Lilli!
Lilli Hargrave: I won't let it be born in civilization. I want it to be born right here. Where there's no evil, and no lies, and no guns.
Richard Lestrange: You're right. We'll stay here. Just the three of us. I love you, Lilli.
[Lilli smiles happily and breezily at him]
- Alternate versionsBoth the American pan and scan DVD and the European widescreen DVD are reframed to cut out Lilli's breasts in the scene where she's looking at herself in the mirror. The older VHS releases showed her nipples at the very bottom of the screen.
- SoundtracksA World of Our Own
Music by Barry Mann
Lyrics by Cynthia Weil
Produced by Dennis Lambert and Barry Mann
Performed by Surface featuring Bernard Jackson
Courtesy of Columbia Records
The Bad: - Disregards the plot from The Blue Lagoon - Sexual "overtones" rather than "undertones" - More an attempt at capitalizing on the popularity of the original than an extension of the latter's story
Comments:
There aren't many situations that manage to capture the imagination as does watching two children blossom into young adults isolated from civilization on a dessert island. The Blue Lagoon's charm was the unadulterated depiction of the purity and innocence of mind that "civilized" society deprives us. It was the forgotten image of what children are all doomed to lose as they experience life based on societal dictates rather than the nature we are all born with.
Return to the Blue Lagoon re-examines these themes, if under the somewhat greater taint of society's teachings. In this way, the purity of the characters of Return is not as pure, the innocence not as innocent. Although the opening sequence makes quick work of any attachment to the original, Return was a decent film in its own right. Fans of the original will inevitably find it difficult to resist the sequel. The trick will be mentally disregarding it, should it prove more unsettling than fulfilling.
- BabyFarkMcGeeZax
- Jun 18, 2007
Details
Box office
- Budget
- $11,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $2,807,854
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $1,277,428
- Aug 4, 1991
- Gross worldwide
- $2,807,854
- Runtime1 hour 42 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1