Return to the Blue Lagoon 1991

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. Read more

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. Read more

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. Read more

Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer: Return to the Blue Lagoon is neither campy enough to be howlingly funny nor prurient enough to be provocative. Read more

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. Read more

Caryn James, New York Times: The Fijian background looks pretty, but there's no escaping the fact that the tropical flowers and trees seem smarter and more appealing than the people. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: The sincere idiocy of this film really has to be seen to be appreciated -- not that I think there is any need for you to see, or appreciate, it. Read more

Mark Kermode, Time Out: Like a sex education film made by semi-liberated nuns, the movie keeps its sticky truths hidden beneath a veneer of leering cleanliness. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: Return to the Blue Lagoon is a pointless spinoff of the 1980 hit, which was itself a remake of a 1949 British pic. Read more

Hal Hinson, Washington Post: Up until now, I thought it was pretty near impossible to feel nostalgia for The Blue Lagoon. But darned if life isn't full of surprises. Read more