A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
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
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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Internet Movie Database | 5.2/10 |
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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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