moran-78845
I have to admit this is the first movie to make me cry in many years. The final few minutes of the film was very powerful, especially when Jim Backus played his last scene.I remember this program when it originally aired back in 1964. It was fun seeing the behind the camera action of these 7 actors who were stuck on that desert island in the vast Pacific.I highly recommend this film to fans of the old show. It was great to see Bob Denver (Gilligan), Dawn Welles (Maryann) and Russell Johnson (the Professor) together after so many years. I think the bittersweet emotions they were experiencing was passed on to the audience.We all have gotten older but the castaways are still together and trying to find away back to civilization. I hope they are forever on that island.
LarsTallica
I saw this special last night because i love Gilligan's Island and thought i was in for treat but boy was i wrong.This special was horrible.They had had ator's that didn't even look like the gilligan's island and it wasn't really even a story. They had these little known actor's played the Gilligan's Island cast offscreen as they were.Im pretty sure Alan Hale Jr. wasn't smacking Bob Denver around with his Hat outside the set. But i did like the Dawn Wells,Bob Denver and Russell Johnson did appear in this special.They talked about there experiences and then the actor's would act out a scene but very poorly done on the writer's part.Dawn Well's explained that she didn't know that Natalie Schafer had breast cancer for a long time and then there was a scene where a woman is saying she's scared about her operation of breast cancer and then the friend tells natalie schafer she doesn't know what she's talking about and then Natalie Schafer took off her shirt to show her she had the operation.What the ? But the only part worth putting in this Gilligan's island special was the end when it showed cast-mates of Gilligans Island behind the scene's footage while Louis Armstrong's "What a wonderful world played in the backround" Yes The original Gilligan's Island is a classic but this Cbs catrastrophe just drag's mud on the Gilligan's Island nameP.s bye the way Between Ginger and Mary-Ann i pick Mary Anne
John Barnell
I like how this movie has Dawn Wells, Bob Denver & Russell Johnson narrating both on and off camera. You do have to use your imagination fore the "flashbacks", but it works. This is a must see for any Gilligan's Island fan.
jimboman
I caught this last night (10/13/01) and was immediately sucked in. I had seen the ads and thought it was just anther TV movie. I was pleasantly surprised when I discovered that it was a more of a documentary style with the remaining cast (minus Tina Louise who will always be Ginger wether she likes it or not, and she doesn't) moving the story of the show along and doing intros to the recreations of key moments of the show's history.
I have no idea how accurate this portrayal is in the history of the show because time always seems to soften memories but the remaining cast seemed to have really loved one another and enjoyed working on the show (with the exception of Tina, of course). I felt that this show was very well done and I am glad that I watched it, even tho I haven't seen an episode of Gilligan's Island in a long long time.
