Return to the Blue Lagoon (1991)
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0% of critics liked it
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46% of users liked it
(15,353 ratings)
This sequel to the surprise box office hit The Blue Lagoon (1980) mimics its predecessor's romantic adventure formula of a lush tropical locale inhabited by scantily clad, nubile teens discovering their sexuality. Spotted adrift in a boat with his deceased parents Richard and Emmeline, a baby… More This sequel to the surprise box office hit The Blue Lagoon (1980) mimics its predecessor's romantic adventure formula of a lush tropical locale inhabited by scantily clad, nubile teens discovering their sexuality. Spotted adrift in a boat with his deceased parents Richard and Emmeline, a baby boy is rescued by a passing ship. Adopted by the widow Hargrove (Lisa Pelikan), infant Richard is soon at sea again after he, his new mother and her baby daughter Lilli abandon ship in the face of a cholera epidemic. Washing ashore on the same island populated by the first film's heroes, Hargrove protects and raises her young charges until a disease also claims her life. Years pass and both Richard (Brian Krause) and Lilli (Milla Jovovich) become young adults. While Richard discovers his manhood by racing a lagoon shark and spying on the island's dangerous natives, Lilli becomes a woman with her first period. Eventually their raging hormones lead the two into each other's arms. Marriage and a pregnancy follow, but Richard and Lilli's union is threatened by the arrival of a ship carrying a lovely captain's daughter (Nana Coburn) with eyes for the loincloth-clad Richard. ~ Karl Williams, Rovi
- Directed By
- William A. Graham
- Genres
- Drama, Action & Adventure, Romance
PG-13,
- In Theaters
- Jan 1, 1991 Wide
- Studio
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Critic Reviews
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John Hartl, Seattle Times
The travelogue-style photography is soothing, the bodies are pretty and the music isn't offensive, but feature-length movies can't survive on the ingredients for a standard airline commercial.
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Jay Boyar, Orlando Sentinel
Things are pretty much the same for the semi-nude kids in this movie as they were for the semi-nude kids in the first Blue Lagoon.
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Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer
Return to the Blue Lagoon is neither campy enough to be howlingly funny nor prurient enough to be provocative.
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Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
Jovovich is a beauty recalling the very young Myrna Loy, Krause is boyishly handsome; both are capable and should survive this particular shipwreck.
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Mark Caro, Chicago Tribune
When an old scallawag spies on Lilli bathing naked in a waterfall, we civilized viewers are primed to condemn him. But we're all scallawags here.
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Cast
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Milla Jovovich
as Lilli
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Brian Krause
as Richard
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Lisa Pelikan
as Sarah Hargrave
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Courtney Phillips
as Young Lilli
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Nana Coburn
as Sylvia
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Emma James
as Lilli-as an Infant
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Jackson Barton
as Richard-as an Infant
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Brian Blain
as Captain Hilliard
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Peter Hehir
as Quinlan
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Pita Degei
as Chief
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John Dicks
as Penfield
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Annabel E. Graham
as Baby
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Garette Ratliff Henson
as Young Richard
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John Keightley
as LeStrange
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John Mann
as 1st Captain
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Gus Mercurio
as 1st Mate
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Mikaele Nasau
as Lone Cannibal
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Alexander Petersons
as Giddens
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Wayne Pygram
as Kearney
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Todd Rippon
as Gullion
- Liz Mullinar
- Courtney Barilla
- David Gallagher
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John Turnbull
as Dawes
