Highly Overrated But Still Good

Fresh and Exciting

Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

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.

I actually really enjoyed this movie and have watched it again several times. Although it's quite predictable, it's quite a different take on the "stranded on a tropical island" romantic angle. There were quite a few dramatic moments and the lead actors really stepped up. They showed personal strength and courage which is a credit to the writers and it really helped us, as an audience, start to root for the characters.The movie also benefited from a strong supporting cast as well which really lifted the caliber of this TV movie.Would definitely recommend to any romance/drama/adventure movie buffs.

There are quite a few things wrong with this film, yet a few redeeming features too. Firstly, the script is awful. The cheesy one liners are woeful, and some of the ways the parents react are painful, although that is as much the acting than the script. So, the acting. The main leads, Thwaites and Evans, do as much as they can with a limited script, and looking beyond the American accents, bearing in mind they are both Australian, they don't do a bad job. They do actually create very intimate love scenes and keep the film going, and by the end of the movie, you do actually feel sad as Evans plays hard to get after all the attention they are getting. Also, they have obviously been picked for their looks, and not necessarily for their acting skills, and so much of it is filmed with minimal clothes on, which i must admit isn't a bad thing for the guys out there, and I'm sure the girls wont complain too. Overall, a rubbish script but with a nice deeper story and an intimate love story create by decent actors.

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.