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.
"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.