Blue Lagoon: The Awakening (2012)

The remake or re-"awakening" of the Blue Lagoon is basically based on a gimmick: waiting for Indiana Evans (playing Emma) and Breton Thwaites (playing Dean) to take their clothes off and have sex on a tropical island. The movie begins plausibly with Indiana getting knocked off a yacht into the water, with Breton coming to her rescue with a lifeboat. Then the couple drift towards a desert island complete with palm trees and travel log beaches. After that, the plausibility ends. For starters, the only way the search party armed with helicopters could not find the couple is if they are incredibly bad at their jobs. After all, if the couple drifted to a tropical paradise by boat, then surely it is not too hard to find the desert island. Yet the search party fails completely in its mission and announces over the airwaves that its search mission has become a recovery mission, which has the effect of making Denise Richards cry. Meanwhile, other implausible things happen on the island. The couple is apparently subject to wild mood swings, since they are happy at one point and then become completely manic the next without any explanation being given. Yet despite all of the implausible plot lines, I did not resent the movie as much as I thought I would. What I saw were two appealing actors, Indiana Evans and Breton Thwaites, trapped in a bad movie. Furthermore, they were more mature and considerate of each other during the love scenes than their predecessors, Christopher Atkins and Brooke Shields. With a more intelligent script, I could see Evans and Thwaites delivering performances worthy of critical acclaim because they each have at least one good movie within each of them. Unfortunately, the "Blue Lagoon: The Awakening" is not that film. This movie falls apart at the screenplay stage, because it is all about the sex scenes (which are too brief) and it does not give the characters anything interesting to say or do. 4.5/10

I came across this movie on HBO and unfortunately viewed it. Let me say Trinidad is not a poor country in need of "Habitat for Humanity". It is the 7th most industrialized nation in the world and the biggest exporter of LNG to USA. Maybe the Lifetime movie creators should have done their research. I am disgusted by the portrayal of "locals" and areas that DO NOT exist in Trinidad. The Trinidad police do not have boats..we have COASTGUARDS. And lastly, there are NO panthers in the Caribbean!!!!!!This show does not show anything about Trinidad except a fantasy of how a "POOR" Caribbean country is supposed to look like according to the myopic minds who created this junk.

Okay, I am a little bit embarrassed to be reviewing this film, but I read some other reviews, and I wanted to point out some elements I noticed.I caught this movie by accident one morning when I happened to have a day off. I was just flipping channels when it came on. When I saw what it was, I decided to leave it on while I did other things.What surprised me about the film was the arc for Indiana Evans' character, Emma. While much of the movie was silly, the dialog between the two leads seemed honest in the context of the story and the characters. They actually talked to and got to know one another. Also, unusual for a Lifetime movie, Emma actually takes joy and pleasure in her own sexuality. That the character (not the actor) is a teenager makes for a slightly subversive moment in an otherwise formulaic film.Emma is also the one who misunderstands Dean when they return home, which is nice, as often men are portrayed as misinterpreting signals, and instead Emma misunderstands Dean. Emma and her sister also have a great moment that passes the Bechtel test, in that they do not talk about the men in their lives, but each other. The movie has problems, but the acting is not one of them. I think the two leads are quite good with the material, and they make their characters work despite some obvious holes in the plot. The movie's island scenes were also beautifully filmed. The eponymous lagoon is particularly lovely.Not a spectacular film, but it had a few surprises.

I was in a chick flick mood, so I chose to watch this movie. I knew with in the first two minutes that I wasn't going like it. I watched it anyways(mostly because the main actor 'dean' is hot). The acting was hard to get passed because a lot of the lines felt forced. Seriously the acting in Dirty Dancing and Twilight were better. The only thing I was impressed with was the similarity in looks the leading actress had to the original Blue Lagoon film and to Denise Richards, which I believe is the only reason they picked her to star. Save your self the palm to the forehead slap and watch something else more worth your time.