Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

Captivating movie !

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

While seeming like a prospect of "Where are they now?" crossed with "Growing up Brady", this was an inventive format. Narrative with actors for some parts, presentations by the original actors for others, and vox populi for yet other parts, they all blended together to make for a trippy sort of special, especially when the staged narratives used original actors (Dawn Wells at Alan Hale Jr's funeral) and the presentations used the young actors (the questions about the professor getting off the island, why did they have so much clothing?). I won't say much about the actual content, but I was pleasantly surprised at the way they presented it.

This is delightful!Dawn Wells,Bob Denver,and Russel Johnson present a light-hearted look back at the making of this timeless tv show and it's enduring spots in hearts of folks all over the world.Actors recreate the early battles to get te green-light from the network to make this show.Unbelievable that this well-loved show had such a hard time getting on tv!

I caught this last night (10/13/01) and was immediately sucked in. I had seen the ads and thought it was just anther TV movie. I was pleasantly surprised when I discovered that it was a more of a documentary style with the remaining cast (minus Tina Louise who will always be Ginger wether she likes it or not, and she doesn't) moving the story of the show along and doing intros to the recreations of key moments of the show's history. I have no idea how accurate this portrayal is in the history of the show because time always seems to soften memories but the remaining cast seemed to have really loved one another and enjoyed working on the show (with the exception of Tina, of course). I felt that this show was very well done and I am glad that I watched it, even tho I haven't seen an episode of Gilligan's Island in a long long time.

At first, I thought two hours was going to be a little long for this nostalgic look at the cast and making of the evergreen series, "Gilligan's Island." However, the retrospective was delightful! Mary Ann, Gilligan, and the Professor share their stories from this early sixties series that almost wasn't. The show is particularly funny when it's not pulling punches about Tina Louise's attitude toward the show (and it manages to get the digs in in a good-hearted way) and the Mary Ann vs Ginger comparison. The casting for the "then" characters is amazing, especially Eric Alan Kramer's Alan Hale Jr. and Steve Vinovich's Jim Backus. It rides the line between heartfelt and sappy very well and it's great to see how amazing Dawn Wells (Mary Ann), Bob Denver (Gilligan), and Russell Johnson (the Professor) look.