in the role of dr. Christiansen. this is one of the pillars of the film. then, the bodies of two Australian teenagers losted out of civilisation, different one by other, becoming parts of a seductive love story. and, sure, the end. risky but useful for save a teenager story who could be a large collection of clichés and stereotypes. so, a nice film. easy to criticize, not bad for the mixture of classic themes. and for the tricks. because it has the nice idea to conquest different categories of public. the nostalgic of The Blue Lagoon from 1980 for the presence in the cast of Christopher Atkins. the admirers of the sequel from 1991 for the beautiful new level of story. but the target remains the Facebook generation. and this is the motif to not ignore a film who reflects the spirit of a circle of young people who defines his identity step by step.

Emma Robinson (Indiana Evans) is a popular sweet girl. Her partying friend Lizzie tries to push her to date the hot quarterback. Dean McMullen (Brenton Thwaites) is the angry school outcast. The class goes to Trinidad to do humanitarian work or more like a privileged Caribbean vacation. They go on a party yacht. The police breaks up the party. Emma falls off the boat. Dean jumps in after her. Dean cuts the line not wanting to get in trouble with the cops. They are lost in the ocean and lands on a desolate island.Dean is a real jerk and a true idiot. He is a horrible character. He could be an interesting quiet introspective outcast. Instead, he is really annoying and fully deserves his outcast position. It doesn't help that he's the reason that they're stranded. He caused the whole thing. The movie needs him to save her to start their adventure. On the positive side, it's two beautiful people on a desert island. The time back home is actually more interesting and a bit more compelling. The last act has some good melodrama. Neither of the actors are terribly good although I can't blame anything on their performance. They did what the movie needs but nothing more.

Sometimes a movie you think must be garbage, surprises you. This is one of those reviews."Blue Lagoon: The Awakening" has everything that could make it a really bad movie. First of all, it's a Lifetime Movie, so it starts off with a disadvantage in the bag. Next, It's based on the "Blue Lagoon" movies without the key elements; growing up on the island, discovering the attraction of the opposite sex, young motherhood and the terrifying notion of the wilderness of an island. In this modern story, our young heroes are high school students who get shipwrecked by their own mistake while attending a boat party way past their curfew during a school trip. So, no traditional "Blue Lagoon" flick here. Yet strangely enough it works, because it's also a story about young love. Dean and Emma could have been stuck being study buddies in a traditional teen romantic drama and it would have still been enjoyable. This is mainly due to actors having great chemistry. On screen chemistry can make the most mundane movie warrant a second watch and make you believe in the characters. I have already re-watched it so to speak :) The actors Brenton Thwaites ( who snatched up the role of the young prince in the upcoming "Maleficient" and is a runner up for the role of Four opposite Shailene Woodley in the upcoming adaptation of the popular young adult novel "Divergent") & Indiana Evans have every quality to be young superstars. Both are exceptionally pretty (Indiana could have been love child of Brooke Shields and Denise Richards, the latter playing her mother so thumbs up for the casting as well), charismatic and light up the screen. Hopefully their careers will be filled with success, go kids! :) The music used in the movie is the second reason I enjoyed the movie so much. It even made the traditional slow-mo Lifetime movie shenanigans watchable. I have a really big nitpick about this movie that I can't let go of even though I loved it so much. This island had only one monkey and one very easily killed panther as its other occupants WTF? :) To sum it all up, if you like high school movies, picturesque beaches, pretty people and young love this is the movie for you.

from an old book. an adaptation for XXI century of a romantic story. another part, with same ingredients. game with common pieces. nothing original. same teenagers, same isle, only end is little different. it is not a bad film. it can be almost nice. but the empty presence of Christopher Atkins, the unrealistic solutions, the place of film as another movie about teenagers, the beauty of nature as essence, the not inspired option for Trinidad , the ambition to create something interesting, the performance as convention, all are arguments for not great enthusiasm. sure, Blue Lagoon has its fans. but a small circle is not entire public. verdict - an exercise and a dusty theme.