CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Lucia Ayala It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

Scotty Burke It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

tdfpub-71362 Despite all the complaints, this movie stills gets a 10 from me. But that's not surprising. I saw this movie when I was 13. Brook Shields was my first crush and the movie started my fascination with tropical islands. (Yeah, I know. Me and about a billion other guys.) I'm on the south side of my 40's and this movie is a nice reminder of younger days.

Stephen Bird It may be old, but due to its nature it hasn't aged, The Blue Lagoon is set in the Victorian era, but you wouldn't know it for most of the film's duration.A boy and a girl get stranded on a tropical island where they spend many years, from childhood, through their teenage years and into young adulthood, eventually producing a child that neither knew they were going to have until it popped out. The Blue Lagoon is one of those very rare films that you could easily describe as being practically perfect, the way it handled the couples development as they both grew up was brilliant..., naturally Richard and Emmeline, played by a very young Brooke Shields and Christopher Atkins, begin to experience natural urges, only they don't know what they are and don't understand what's happening to them, they begin experimenting with sexual activity, and as I mentioned earlier, they eventually have a child together.The way The Blue Lagoon handles the sexual nature of the film is subtle and isn't overly exploited like a modern film would, it's raw and it's realistic. I like how the film isn't turned into a fight for survival, there are plenty of provisions and natural resources to keep the couple going indefinitely, therefore instead of being about survival, it's about development and growing up, showing how two youngsters would realistically live in this situation. For his brief stint in the film at the beginning, the ships chef Paddy, who also gets stranded provides some comic relief and the character is superbly acted by the late Leo McKern, but the film isn't about Paddy and he is swiftly killed off before the film truly gets going. For it's day (1980), the beautiful scenery and vivid bright pictures and framing are excellent, I was really impressed how production and filming took place on location in Fiji, rather than an artificial set like most of the films of the era were, this made the whole feel of the film so much better and added something special to the overall finished product.The Blue Lagoon was special then, and even more special now, a lovely picture that deserves to be watched and enjoyed, it may indeed contain its fair share of faults, but the film is so good these faults can easily be overlooked and ignored.

L R This movie is beautiful. All caps: beautiful.The idea for this movie alone is very unique and intriguing. The casting did a great job based on actors physical appearance. But, unfortunately they are very bad actors (maybe still too young in this movie) Brooke Shields is 14-15 (while filming for this movie)!!!Still, bad acting gets better, and is almost acceptable by the end of the movie.The scenery in this movie is beautiful.And the story is between a boy and a girl , stranded on a beautiful island and coming of age.. probably at around 15, they for the first time in their lives become attracted one to another..The natural relationship and family creation and interpersonal arguing and smiling, and attraction and love and lust and frustration and health and sickness and clashing opinions and trying to figure each other out. etc.. Is again beautiful. Just a classic, that makes a strong impact on the viewer! I also like the ambivalent ending. I believe they got saved. I hope they did.BUT, it is soooooo frustrating! Why? Because this movie could be one of the best movies ever made. If the script was just a tiny bit better and if the actors only knew how to act, and create a even more powerful chemistry on the screen.Real rating: 8.2

Ryan Hogg This film had a pure feel to it with actors that wonderfully played anti social teens; not by choice might I add. The constant struggle to maintain their human selves were slowly destroyed by the crippling instincts of biology. The film makes aware the role that society has on our lives. The separation from society and lack of influence of society is why this film has created purity because without expectations and rules what is left to guide us and control us. The purity is further shown in the characters through the child like behaviour they have which made me think innocence of a child perhaps. Lastly Randal Kleiser has created what I can only call a pure love story.