Return to the Blue Lagoon (1991) [PG-13]

Featuring:
Brian Krause, Milla Jovovich, Lisa Pelikan

Written by:
Henry De Vere Stacpoole
Leslie Stevens

Directed by:
William A. Graham


Release Date:
August 2, 1991

Original Title:
Return to the Blue Lagoon

Alternate Titles:
Mavi Göle Dönüş
Powrót do Błękitnej Laguny
Powrót na Błękitną Lagunę
Regreso al lago azul
블루 라군 2
푸른 산호초 2

Genres:
Adventure | Drama

Production Companies:
Columbia Pictures
Price Entertainment

Production Countries:
United States of America

Ratings / Certifications:
BR: 12  DE: 6  DK: A  FI: K-12  KR: 15  NL: 6  SE: 11  US: PG-13 

Runtime: 98

Return to the Romance, Return to the Adventure...

In this sequel to the 1980 classic, 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 tanned teenagers in love.

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. We open the film with a ship finding the craft with our original characters in it, Richard and Emmeline dead and Paddy alive. Established in the first film, the only word Paddy ever says is "Richard", so the crew assumes Richard is the infant's name. Taken in by Sarah, a widow with an infant baby girl Lilli, Richard (Paddy) is cared for in a return to civilization. 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. 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. Taking control of the small craft, she eventually guides them back to the island of the first film. The infant Richard, recognizing where he is, finds his home and is very upset not to find his parents. Fixing up the hut and settling in the children, Sarah begins their life on the island, slowly teaching the children survival tools, as well as schooling them as though they were in school, and teaching them slowly about the facts of life, including Lilli's eventual growth to womanhood. When Sarah dies from pneumonia, she leaves the children far more prepared than Richard and Emmeline in the first film. Years later as the children grow into adulthood, the film skims the same themes as the first of their developing relationship, and introduces the characters to civilization when a ship, low on fresh water, stops on their island and offers to take them home. After a confrontation with one of the crew and the captain's daughter, Lilli finds herself pregnant and they decide to stay, as they feel the civilization the visitors have to offer will not compare to the life they lead on the island.

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Rankings and Honors

Return to the Blue Lagoon (1991) on IMDb
Internet Movie Database 5.2/10
Rotten Tomatoes 0%
Metacritic 28/100
Awards Won: 6 nominations total

Art Direction:
Paul Ammitzboll

Assistant Camera:
Robert Agganis

Assistant Editor:
Don Roth
Gary Simon

Best Boy Electric:
Gary Hill

Camera Operator:
Vincent Monton
Paul Thompson
Geoffrey Wharton

Casting:
Pennie DuPont

Conductor:
Basil Poledouris

Director:
William A. Graham

Director of Photography:
Robert Steadman

Editor:
Ronald J. Fagan

Executive Producer:
Randal Kleiser

First Assistant Camera:
Darrin Keough

First Assistant Director:
Bob Roe

First Assistant Editor:
Robert W. Hedland

Gaffer:
Alan Goldenhar

Hairstylist:
Jan Zeigenbein

Key Grip:
Mark Abrahams

Makeup Artist:
Lesley Vanderwalt

Negative Cutter:
Donah Bassett

Novel:
Henry De Vere Stacpoole

Original Music Composer:
Basil Poledouris

Producer:
William A. Graham
Peter Bogart

Production Design:
Jon Dowding

Script Supervisor:
Nicola Moors
Jenny Quigley
Jackie Sullivan

Second Assistant Camera:
Barry Idoine

Second Assistant Director:
Paul Grinder

Sound Re-Recording Mixer:
Bill W. Benton
John J. Stephens
Gregory H. Watkins

Still Photographer:
Vivian Zink

Stunt Coordinator:
Phil Culotta

Supervising Sound Editor:
Emile Razpopov
Dessie Markovsky

Underwater Camera:
Ron Taylor

Writer:
Leslie Stevens

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