In this sequel to the 1980 classic, two children are stranded on a beautiful island in the South Pacific. With no adults to guide them, the two make a simple life together and eventually become tanned teenagers in love.
When an old scallawag spies on Lilli bathing naked in a waterfall, we civilized viewers are primed to condemn him. But we're all scallawags here.
– Mark Caro,
Chicago Tribune,
21 May 2013
rotten:
Jovovich is a beauty recalling the very young Myrna Loy, Krause is boyishly handsome; both are capable and should survive this particular shipwreck.
– Kevin Thomas,
Los Angeles Times,
21 May 2013
rotten:
Return to the Blue Lagoon is neither campy enough to be howlingly funny nor prurient enough to be provocative.
– Carrie Rickey,
Philadelphia Inquirer,
21 May 2013
rotten:
Things are pretty much the same for the semi-nude kids in this movie as they were for the semi-nude kids in the first Blue Lagoon.
– Jay Boyar,
Orlando Sentinel,
21 May 2013
rotten:
The travelogue-style photography is soothing, the bodies are pretty and the music isn't offensive, but feature-length movies can't survive on the ingredients for a standard airline commercial.