Return To The Blue Lagoon (5.5/10)

Going into a movie with the lowest expectations can be a good thing, often great. I saw "The Warrior's Way" and "Adventureland"with low expectations and came out loving them (the later more so). I went into "Inception", "300", and "Sucker Punch" with very high expectations and they were not met, part of me will never truly love those movies because of it. "Return To The Blue Lagoon" is a poor movie that should be watched with knowing nothing going in. It'll be better that way.

I knew vague details the original going in, you apparently don't need to know much about that one cause their almost completely different. I'm not even going to explain the plot really here. One good sentence and you can guess the entire plot easily. So a mother, her daughter and a cast away boy (not related) wash up on shore of a deserted island. The children grow up, the mother passes away, and what will you know... the kids get feelings for each other. I guess this movie has a theme of deserted islands = pure and untainted love. Yea it's descent but nothing memorable. I'd rather live some deserted island with a beautiful woman scenario then watch a mediocre movie about it. I won't lie, I went into this movie for the same reason everyone else did. Nobody watches this movie without waiting for the "it" factor. Everyone is watching to see "when are these two going to fuck?" (quoted from a major film critic). Milla Jovovich is very pretty, but this movie is too soft for soft core porn. Seeing as how everyone watching wants to see the sex, they do a bad job showing it. Watching "The Dreamers" before this makes that movie look the dirtiest porn ever. The film looks rather nice which makes it easy to watch, but it has little else going for it.

5.5/10
Recommendation: For gooey romantic types. Strike that, it's more for the people who watch those romance movies where guy A meets girl B and 1:30 hours later they kiss and some popular song at the time the movie came out plays as the credits roll. Like those things then here you go. Otherwise stay away.