People are voting emotionally.

Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

If crappier films were made at the time, they didn't hit your local theatre. But this one probably did. Yes, the dirty old man in me appreciates Phoebe Cates in full nude. I'll be honest about that. (Perhaps there's a fan edit that qualifies a good soft-core porn?) But there is no other justification for watching this. Take my advice and use your bandwidth more wisely.

This gripping film is well worth going out of your way to see because Phoebe Cates has a couple of nude scenes, discrete but still nude scenes.Obviously ripped off from Brooke Shields' "Blue Lagoon," this story strands Cates and Aames in a rocky desert paradise, a cavern all ecru and cream, with a built-in shower. They're threatened by aggressive Arabs who live in a patriarchal world in which women -- or even teens like Cates -- are no more than chattel.Nice photography and stunning locations. Israel. The local Arabs look dusty enough but the wardrobe and grooming for the principals doesn't take any chances. Aames wears a loose vest and has a modish 80s hair style. Cates is all in chiffon or whatever it is, pink, fluffy, and contour covering, as befits a proper young lady in 1900 or whenever the story is set, although she lifts those hampering skirts up to her bare knees while trudging across the sand.Aames, a church-going lad who can't act, has an encounter with a belly dancer, which apparently leads him to speculate about any of his body parts that he may have been neglecting, because on his way back to camp he stops to peek in Cates' window (carelessly left often) while she's bathing her upper torso. We are now 13 minutes into the film and already there are hints of rahat lokum to come. The voyeurs by this time are jumping up and down in their seats and we don't want them to think they're forgotten.And, in fact, Phoebe Cates is pretty much unforgettable. She might pass muster as an actress but that's not the point. She was seventeen when this was shot. Her figure is flawless. Her slightly chubby, kewpie-doll face has a tiny, upturned nose, as if drawn with a set of plastic French curves, and she usually holds her pulpy lips parted, baring a set of glistening incisors. Any normal man would want her to bite him savagely.Lost in the desert, fearful of the Arab raiders, they find themselves at a seaside resort surrounded by date palms and citrus trees, fronted by the Mediterranean Sea, and furnished with another gentle waterfall. They adopt a "funny" young chimpanzee who makes faces and shrieks with chimpanzee laughter. He also takes good direction and plays with himself, in the vulgar sense, on cue.Shortly, they are reduced to wearing the scantiest of home-made loincloths and bras. It's an almost perfect reprise of the scenes from "Blue Lagoon" of 1980, or even the 1949 version, or the original novel of 1908 by Henry De Vere Stacpoole. We've seen enough of poor Aames by now to realize his future is going to be limited to used-car commercials. He has all the phones of a nice middle-class kid from El Cerrito and the same acting skills.Little did they know that true love lay just around the corner -- or rather it would have, had this been a carpentered environment. As it is, it must necessarily lie amid the daisies and scarlet poppies that are always found in the middle of the desert.She gets pregnant, their camel dies, and they are stuck among the sand dunes when they're attacked by the vicious Arab throat-cutter. But not to worry. I mean, they never worry, so why should we?

I don't know where to start. It's like they saw Blue Lagoon and someone said "Let's make a comedy version of this!" The dialogue is, at times, inane to the point of making you guffaw with laughter and the acting - Aames in particular - is painful to endure.Add in the comedy chimps (I only wish I were joking, sadly) and the terrible music (which varies from plinky-plonky comedy piano tunes to over-the-top "Danger Will Robinson!" theme.That said, this is mostly about naked bodies and there's plenty of that. There's even full frontal Chimpanzee nudity! There's little to recommend this film. Poor acting, and a poor script, along with the plethora of stupid on display, make this seem like it was intended to be light-hearted and aimed at kids. The nudity, however, is definitely not family friendly and aimed squarely at adults.And about the stupid...Things I learned from this movie, contrary to common sense: 1. When lost in the desert, don't despair! There are circus-trained chimps everywhere, and they will help you! 2. Seeing a chimp masturbate on screen is perfectly acceptable and funny. It's not at all disturbing, no, no, no! 3. Said chimps can mate and produce a monkey baby! 4. In the blink of an edit, having arrived at an oasis the scene before, you can build a house and a love swing covered with goat furs.5. In the blink of a following edit, having built a house and, apparently hunted goats successfully, our hero is seen unable to fire an arrow from his bow.6. After having shown you a chimp masturbating, it was apparently considered improper for the chimps to be naked, so they are dressed in tiny loincloths after that.SUMMARY: Sub-standard Blue Lagoon clone which irritates more than tittilates. Bad everything, really. Not worth the effort.

They say "Paradise" is a rip-off of "The Blue Lagoon". Well, one person said that in the history of entertainment, there have been only seven original ideas, and Dorothy Parker said "The only ism Hollywood believes in is plagiarism".Whatever, sometimes a rip-off is better than what it rips off. David and Sarah are not stupid, unlike the kids in the other movie. They know about sex (they have a book, just in case they need help). Sarah initially is unwilling. David comments that he is going crazy saturating, since Sarah is holding out, but he never forces himself on Sarah. In fact, when Sarah says yes, he makes certain that she is really willing.They know about what makes babies. Having a baby for a teenager is always rough, but they know how it came about.Since nudity is there, it should be mentioned that both look quite nice naked. Some people really like nude pictures, and there is a good showing of it, both male and female. It isn't really dirty.