deickos
There is so much beauty in this supposedly naive and simple story that is beyond description. Or you can see it as another version of the Garden of Eden from the Bible. I think this is the simplest way to talk about our world: two children living outside it. This is the second time I have seen human courtship documented so beautifully - or as an old saying says: authorities and powers of this world that never let us live and love in life as we should have...
Adrian Bonds
I had looked forward to see this movie for a long time before I today made the choice and watched it. What I had in mind was a beautiful nature film with pure natural love, just as I saw it in Green Mansions (1959) and the outcome was exactly what I wanted. This movie contains a lot of nature, a lot of love but not a lot of unnecessary words that would just have filled it with nonsense. "The Blue Lagoon" is the perfect rejection of two false love visions, both of love as something purely idealistic and platonic and of love and something you do just to satisfy your physical ego. It's liberating to watch The Blue Lagoon because it is so different from what we are used to see nowadays. When i watch this movie I feel comfortable and happy.And to my rating. Perhaps I wish I had learned more about the characters and I had loved to see what happened after the story ends but I will remember the movie and if a friend asked me about a good love film, this would be one of the movies I'd mentioned.
Tracy Winters
You'll think someone pee'd in the lagoon turning the water yellow in this stinky film about young teens discovering their bodies and the importance of building their outhouse down-wind.Brooke Shields is pretty and Chris Atkins looks at least as good as she does. The two island lovebirds have sex until Brooke gets knocked up. Oh no! All of a sudden, the jungle drums they've been hearing are getting louder, but who the hell cares, because Brooke is giving birth! Holy Coconuts! What to do?! Well, they'll think of something.Popular coming-of-age film has been over-rated for decades. Tune in if you must, but don't go near Atkins' other sea-going adventure, 'The Pirate Movie'. That flick REALLY sucked, and if that isn't enough, Kristy McNichol(!) played his 'love interest'! EEEEWWWW!!! Mommy, I'm scared!
SnoopyStyle
It's late 19th century. Young Richard Lestrange, his widowed father and orphaned cousin Emmeline Lestrange are on a clipper to San Francisco. Fire engulfs the ship and the cook Paddy Button (Leo McKern) takes the kids into a lifeboat. They get separated from the other lifeboat by the fog and land on a tropic island in the Pacific. They find skulls, signs of natives, and a cast of rum. Paddy drowns after a drunken binge. Richard (Christopher Atkins) and Emmeline (Brooke Shields) move to an isolated beach building a new home.This is hormone cinema wrapped in a Swiss Family Robinson adventure. The hormone cinema is cringe-worthy. This is not a subtle movie. It is deliberately pushing out the young flesh for public consumption. However as a young boy, this was a guilty pleasure. I can't complain about the sincerity of the young actors. This is generally a bad movie but everybody can like a few of those.
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