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I won't complain about the fact that they didn't grow hair in the movie. I don't care about that. I'll watch Cast Away when I want to see details. Sometimes a movie needs to skip certain details (like how they shaved) in order to stay focused on it's true purpose. For all we know, they used his knife and sharpened it on a rock. But to show us that is too time consuming and dumb. Let's pretend they used his knife to shave and move on. What drove me nuts was the lack of realistic human emotions. Poor Denise Richards. Finally lands an acting gig and boy does she look a bit rusty at it. Here's what I found laughable: SPOILER: 1st... Just 2 months after they are gone, she returns home. Who does that??? I'm sure the sister would rather they keep looking for her sibbling a bit longer! 2nd... Just 2 months after their disappearance, Denise, the mom, starts to pack away her daughter's clothes! WOW! She let that daughter go awfully quick. And without a tear! What a crock. 3rd... the arrival home. This is the WORST scene ever. Not only is it a huge public/media spectacle (in reality it would be a private arrival) but the whole school is there! So are the parents! Everyone waits as if in a queue line. The parents stand there with dorky grins waving when they see their kids come down the escalators... REALLY? You're not running toward your kid who you thought was DEAD! Last... I have a hard time believing, after that traumatic, yet exciting adventure, these 2 would just go their separate ways because of high school kids and their cliques. UGH, stupid, that's my immature reaction and non-lusterous way to describe this movie.

This has to be one of the worst films I have seen in quite some time. I went into viewing it knowing it had nothing to do with the original. And that was fine because I was looking for a new movie or a re-imagining if you will. So, that is about the only positive thing I could say. At least it is original. But is so very bad. Where to begin? The script? The writers should never be allowed to pen a script again. The dialogue was so cheesy at times and laughable at other times when it supposed to be deep. Some of the back and forth between the leads will make you roll your eyes. Yes, it is that bad. And the actors do nothing to elevate the material. They are bad actors. I don't even know which one is worse. I realize they are generally unknown actors here in the States but I can guarantee that neither will come out of this being considered breakout stars. If you can get passed the writing and acting, let's discuss some of the ridiculous plot points.

The two are stuck on the island for two months or so yet the male character never grows a beard, moustache, or chest hair. How is that even possible? His hair doesn't even grow on his head. And the female remains completely smooth as well. Considering the time they are on the island and without the proper materials, this is just way too much for the audience to accept. Now, the two characters engage in a physical relationship and we find out that for the girl, it is her first time. Yet, the male had no clue. Really? 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? Whatever. Beyond those things, we have the actual plot of the film. 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. This happens more than once during the movie. In fact, sometimes we go to a commercial with her in a panic and come back with everything seemingly better. Odd to say the least. 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. This of course, remains the same until the final minute of the movie where they come back together and we are supposed to see just how in love they truly are. Again, whatever.

Take special notice of Denise Richards character for a specific point of bad writing meets bad acting as she plays the mother of the missing girl and beyond one failed crying scene, shows next to no realistic emotion over the fact that her daughter could be dead. Everything about this movie screams fake. 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. A complete and total failure from start to finish.

I am from the Caribbean - and a lot of the scenes of a "desert island" was full of baloney!! My friends and I laughed through this "hoot" of a movie all the way through!! Sooo many inconsistencies and fallacies: Drinking and eating the coconut, fully husked!! A dried coconut is hard to cut and eat! One cannot "pick" fully ripened bananas!! A FULL lagoon AND a waterfall - on a "desert" island!!! First of all, there were no mountains on the "desert island" to have waterfalls. A big black cat; these do not live on any of the Caribbean Islands. Sleeping ON coconut leaves - most uncomfortable!! The "police" had American accents - not Trinidadian accents! Man - wheel and come again!!

I was mostly disappointed. I seen the first 2 movies about 20 times each from when I was younger. Probably too young to have been watching them. My opinions are strictly based on what I expect from a Blue Lagoon movie. 1. Trinidad really? Should have been the same island as originals, more realistic someone could be lost in the South Pacific. 2. A little PG but I can forgive that. 3.The boat scene was a dumb idea. No one should have had a clue as to what may have happened. Otherwise they should have been found, there aren't that many islands off Trinidad that they wouldn't have found them by looking. 4. Throwing up but not pregnant. Anyone who has seen the originals was probably expecting that. The pregnancy & impending child is a big part in the story's ending. Original- baby causes them to end up adrift in boat. Baby eats bad berries, parents eat them to die with baby. baby doesn't die. 2nd- Baby from 1 is found w/ dead parents. Baby grows up back on island. He & girl decides not to leave island to protect impending baby from civilized world. I'm left to wonder what decisions a modern day young couple would do. I think this was to avoid the whole complicated world of teen pregnancy, especially in their return but to make it good they cant be chicken poo about getting in dirty waters. They should have had the kid & went to some interesting place about it if found. The odds of a non-sexually active teen being on any birth control unlikely, also I don't think sex was part of her plans until him. 5. They were found way too quickly. They should have been found a year or more later if at all. 6. Too much focus on the parents. Some parts can be tolerated but it was excessive. 7. This movie was missing some of my fav things about Blue Lagoon. The strong connection of the characters. The old characters seemed a lot smarter. They built whole houses and great survival skills. I wished they called it something else & let someone who thought over the bar take this on. I could have done a better job lol, but really.

I watched this in hopes on taking a look at their survival skills and observing Indiana Evans' acting. I know her from H20 and that's it (I always knew those accents were fake) and I don't like her character.

Anyway, this movie revolves around beauty queen Emma (Indiana) and outcast Dean (Brenton). I expected Dean's personality to be different, but I liked it as it was. I have no idea HOW no one saw Emma fall overboard. Unrealistically falling, may I add. Dean refuses to follow the police boat and they float out into the Caribbean. Once there, they paddle to shore on a nearby deserted island. The first idiotic mistake they make is not pulling the raft up more, as it floats away but they manage to save one life jacket. After this, they begin adapting to their new (temporary) life rather well. Not to mention that Dean is coincidentally equipped with survival skills and knows how to be independent. It's all candy and roses for the first two weeks I believe they are there. They screw each other multiple times and become closer. One minute Emma says she likes where she is and the next she's freaking out about being stranded.

After three months, they get rescued by a helicopter after firing off their flare gun. Upon their arrival, both teens unite with their parents (Denise Richards could not have been a better match for Indiana's mother) and go back to school. Emma continues hanging with her group and Dean goes back to his regular, uneventful life. Emma unfortunately begins ignoring the boy who saved her life more than once, but still invites him to her party. He comes and waits for her in the rain, where they share a final dance and the film ends happily ever after.

When updating an 80's 'guilty pleasure' (not one of mine, though) about a couple of teens stranded on a desert island, and finding love and contentment there, you have a few quandaries to work around. Namely: With modern technology, and the world pretty much fully mapped... How on Earth could anyone overlook them? This question isn't quite answered satisfactory (One of them has a working cellphone they could easily be tracked on) but, meh... I'm willing to suspend disbelief if you are.

So, here we have a 'popular girl' and a 'social outcast' shacking up together on this far-off isle after a random series of events not worth going into. They hunt fish for food, eat plenty of bananas, build their own shelter, have baths in a photogenic waterfall and screw like rabbits( WHY does she never get pregnant?). Oh, and the bloke kills a jaguar. Woo hoo. The scenery is just as attractive as his abs and her bikini body... But alas, that talent does not extend to their skills as thespians. Never mind... there's always the cover of Vogue to look forward to.

Meanwhile, back at home, their friends and family fret... As the search is downgraded to a hunt for their corpses, before being stopped altogether. They never stop hoping though... Including Denise Richards as the mother of the female castaway. Whatever happened to Denise? Once a Bond Girl, now reduced to playing second fiddle to a couple of wannabe models. I guess as your good looks fade, so do all the good roles. Hollywood, sexist? OF COURSE NOT!! Take a good look at her, Indiana Evans. That'll be YOU in 20 years.

They get back to the mainland of course, having learnt VALUABLE LESSONS. She's realised there's more to life than parties and the in-crowd... A moment which symbolized by her throwing out all her old gaudy outfits. He finds the courage to reconnect with his estranged father , and they even share a couple of not-at-all forced hugs! Aw. Such character development! Later, he takes her to the prom in the pouring rain. "We've seen far worse than this"! He remarks, as some indie douche warbles away in the background.

Well, so have I... But I'd hardly call that a recommendation... 4/10

Having never seen the Blue Lagoon because I was not allowed to when I was a kid, I had the idea to get all 3 Blue Lagoon movies and watch them in one weekend. This is by far the worst Blue Lagoon and it does not even deserve to be included under the Blue Lagoon umbrella. Two spoiled teenagers (both dumb, and the male extremely unlikable) get lost on a small tropical island where there is a humongous panther for some reason (pretty sure there are no panthers on any Caribbean islands, but anyway). The first two movies are about the innocent awakening of romantic and passionate love, in this one it just seems like they have sex pretty quickly because they are sad and desperate and don't know what else to do. They're only lost for 3 months but their survival skills are not good, they barely manage to thatch together a shelter during that time, yet somehow they look exactly the same when they are discovered 3 months later, just as clean and pretty as they day they both fell off the party yacht. This is a dumb movie. The first Blue Lagoon has become a classic, the second one is pretty much a remake of the first one, and this one is just crap.

No nude scenes like in the 1980 semi-classic. An audience expects a lot more skin in a Blue Lagoon movie. Too bad. The male and female leads were both quite photogenic and sexy. They could do nude scenes without any need for body doubles. The premise of the existence of a reasonably large and well-watered but completely uninhabited island next door to Trinidad is preposterous. 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. Spoiler: Clueless parents don't realize how much the young lovers have bonded while in exile. They don't even ask if the horny teenagers had engaged in sex during their more than three months on the island.

Sometimes a movie you think must be garbage, surprises you. This is one of those reviews.

"Blue Lagoon: The Awakening" has everything that could make it a really bad movie. First of all, it's a Lifetime Movie, so it starts off with a disadvantage in the bag. Next, It's based on the "Blue Lagoon" movies without the key elements; growing up on the island, discovering the attraction of the opposite sex, young motherhood and the terrifying notion of the wilderness of an island. In this modern story, our young heroes are high school students who get shipwrecked by their own mistake while attending a boat party way past their curfew during a school trip. So, no traditional "Blue Lagoon" flick here. Yet strangely enough it works, because it's also a story about young love. Dean and Emma could have been stuck being study buddies in a traditional teen romantic drama and it would have still been enjoyable. This is mainly due to actors having great chemistry. On screen chemistry can make the most mundane movie warrant a second watch and make you believe in the characters. I have already re-watched it so to speak :) The actors Brenton Thwaites ( who snatched up the role of the young prince in the upcoming "Maleficient" and is a runner up for the role of Four opposite Shailene Woodley in the upcoming adaptation of the popular young adult novel "Divergent") & Indiana Evans have every quality to be young superstars. Both are exceptionally pretty (Indiana could have been love child of Brooke Shields and Denise Richards, the latter playing her mother so thumbs up for the casting as well), charismatic and light up the screen. Hopefully their careers will be filled with success, go kids! :) The music used in the movie is the second reason I enjoyed the movie so much. It even made the traditional slow-mo Lifetime movie shenanigans watchable. I have a really big nitpick about this movie that I can't let go of even though I loved it so much. This island had only one monkey and one very easily killed panther as its other occupants WTF? :) To sum it all up, if you like high school movies, picturesque beaches, pretty people and young love this is the movie for you.

The excuse "It's a Lifetime movie, what do you expect?" is not good enough. My biggest critique of the 1980 film was that it held back a lot despite seeming to want to be edgier. This film has that even worse.

Blue Lagoon: The Awakening? What exactly is being awoken in this film? A title like that would be more appropriate for the 1980 film than this one since there's no real character arc for either of the two main characters. They aren't transformed by their experience being stranded on an island for months. Once they go back to their old lives, it's like nothing ever happened.

The acting is bad. The line delivery on the lifeboat, especially, was so unnatural it felt more like a play being put on by inexperienced school kids than an actual film. It was almost like they filmed too little of that sequence and had lines dubbed over after the fact and it feels incredibly sloppy. The reactions of the parents after the two come back from being rescued are extremely subdued and unrealistic. Underacting at its finest, it seems. Your kids are presumed dead and have been for months and then you find out they're actually still alive and have been rescued and the best you can react is as if they are coming from year long study abroad program in Europe or something?

All of the meaningful social commentary present, even in passing, in the 1980 film are completely absent from this one, replaced by the concerns of high school social politics and worries of social implications of certain decisions, most notably, who you end up dating. It's incredibly shallow and either operates on a fundamental lack of understanding on what the original story was trying to say, or was purposefully watered down so that it could conform to the conventional Hollywood drama with all the fixings of a young adult fiction.

The drama and tension are all manufactured nonsense. There don't seem to be any real stakes in this film and any possibility of conflict or tension in the film is passed up in favor of something ridiculous, unrelated, and out of the blue. There is a question of whether or not Emma was pregnant but I believe the film when Emma says "Nope." We can't have underage teen pregnancy, what would the audience think? Any possible tension that sort of issue would imply is instantaneously evaporated in favor of putting in a ridiculous chase scene involving a panther on an island..?

One of the positive aspects of the 1980 adaptation that I complimented was that it did have nice visuals, especially with the swimming sequences. This film tries to do the same thing but can't quite recreate it and ends up looking like a cheap knockoff.

This adaptation of Blue Lagoon relies too much on its soundtrack to heighten any sense of drama or tension and the soundtrack, itself, relies too much on indie pop tunes to convey any emotion. Since there really isn't any chemistry between the two leads, the film makers seemed to decide on forcing emotion with a cheap soundtrack. At any standard, this film's soundtrack feels like an afterthought and more of a supplemental tool than anything else.

Blue Lagoon: The Awakening is bad. If Lifetime really had reservations about the original story enough to change it so dramatically, then maybe they shouldn't have made it in the first place. This film is an intensely watered down truncated vision of the story tainted with all the worst elements of the most cliche teen/young adult fiction tropes one can imagine. I cannot recommend this to anyone. The 1980 version is no masterpiece, but this is straight junk.

I actually really enjoyed this move. I've never seen the original Blue Lagoon or any of the other remakes so I didn't really have high expectations for this movie. There were a lot of cheesy lines for sure but it was a Lifetime move what did you expect? It's a classic love story that is completely predictable but I enjoyed every minute of it! Fell in love with Dean from the start and loved watching the relationship between him and Emma progress while on the island. Don't go into this movie expecting it to be the original Blue Lagoon because it won't be, but if you want a feel good love story this is the movie for you!