(this movie doesn't deserve even a 3, but I'm taking into account the cave shower scene... and the pool scene... and the dip in the ocean... and the romantic love-making... but the movie itself is simply awful!)
Of course, I am here for Phoebe Cates. Young Phoebe Cates. Would you believe that she was a mere seventeen during the filming? And she is wonderful, even if she is not really in touch with the part at all, as she doesn't come across as a damsel in much distress, she is more suitable for FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH, where perhaps something bad happened at school, maybe boyfriend trouble, because here she is more "oh golly, I dropped my ice-cream cone" than any real reaction to being pursued by murderous Arabs intent on enslaving her. She is, of course, only too cute with her brown bunny eyes so I am not going to complain too much.
She disavowed the movie immediately after filming it. I can see why. There's very little of any real worth if you take away her input. She even sang the theme song, and it's kinda cute.
Lots of nudity. Not all of them the young stars. They opted for less nudity, and scenes were shot afterward with extras providing body parts for the love-making scenes which were edited in. There is a lot to see of the long-legged teen however.
Which is best, PARADISE or BLUE LAGOON? BLUE LAGOON, it at least doesn't have the chimps. But play it safe and go for RETURN TO THE BLUE LAGOON, with Milla Jovovich.
Brooke Shields or Phoebe Cates? I haven't seen BLUE LAGOON in years, but fresh off PARADISE, I think Phoebe Cates is serious competition for Brooke Shields.
Something I'm most definitely not going to shut up about are those chumps, er, chimps. They ruin everything! The movie is dorky enough already, but when the chimp appears, I feared the little beast might show up again, but whew! it was gone, only to reappear shortly before the halfway mark and really cause it all to capsize under the weight of all that corniness. Then, inexplicably, there's a second one, and they run about in stereo, any semblance of a real movie goes out the window, the ship was already beleaguered, but now it is truly sunk.
The mood of the movie goes from romance to action to slapstick comedy, with a gory corpse thrown in really out of place in here. Kind of bi-polar, very noticeable in the structure.
As for woolly Willie Aames, the poor man's Tarzan, well, long way off from EIGHT IS ENOUGH, huh? Kinda a stretch having him here. Little guy would be eaten for breakfast. But don't blame either of the kids in the slightest, they did their best, but the script, what an inane clumsy clod wrote that childish chimpanzee-ridden junk?
How utterly convenient that these resourceful kids can lose everything in the desert, and, then, moments later, can come up with anything they need, clothing, cooking utensils, bedding, even a fishing rod. And when the plot demands a romantic setting, they are suddenly out of the desert, in somebody's back yard, how expedient.
And as for The Jackal, somebody like that would hardly come charging out all alone, where were his men? Ooh what a lame corny script!
Nothing you could take seriously. Except the beauty of the female star.
Of course, I am here for Phoebe Cates. Young Phoebe Cates. Would you believe that she was a mere seventeen during the filming? And she is wonderful, even if she is not really in touch with the part at all, as she doesn't come across as a damsel in much distress, she is more suitable for FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH, where perhaps something bad happened at school, maybe boyfriend trouble, because here she is more "oh golly, I dropped my ice-cream cone" than any real reaction to being pursued by murderous Arabs intent on enslaving her. She is, of course, only too cute with her brown bunny eyes so I am not going to complain too much.
She disavowed the movie immediately after filming it. I can see why. There's very little of any real worth if you take away her input. She even sang the theme song, and it's kinda cute.
Lots of nudity. Not all of them the young stars. They opted for less nudity, and scenes were shot afterward with extras providing body parts for the love-making scenes which were edited in. There is a lot to see of the long-legged teen however.
Which is best, PARADISE or BLUE LAGOON? BLUE LAGOON, it at least doesn't have the chimps. But play it safe and go for RETURN TO THE BLUE LAGOON, with Milla Jovovich.
Brooke Shields or Phoebe Cates? I haven't seen BLUE LAGOON in years, but fresh off PARADISE, I think Phoebe Cates is serious competition for Brooke Shields.
Something I'm most definitely not going to shut up about are those chumps, er, chimps. They ruin everything! The movie is dorky enough already, but when the chimp appears, I feared the little beast might show up again, but whew! it was gone, only to reappear shortly before the halfway mark and really cause it all to capsize under the weight of all that corniness. Then, inexplicably, there's a second one, and they run about in stereo, any semblance of a real movie goes out the window, the ship was already beleaguered, but now it is truly sunk.
The mood of the movie goes from romance to action to slapstick comedy, with a gory corpse thrown in really out of place in here. Kind of bi-polar, very noticeable in the structure.
As for woolly Willie Aames, the poor man's Tarzan, well, long way off from EIGHT IS ENOUGH, huh? Kinda a stretch having him here. Little guy would be eaten for breakfast. But don't blame either of the kids in the slightest, they did their best, but the script, what an inane clumsy clod wrote that childish chimpanzee-ridden junk?
How utterly convenient that these resourceful kids can lose everything in the desert, and, then, moments later, can come up with anything they need, clothing, cooking utensils, bedding, even a fishing rod. And when the plot demands a romantic setting, they are suddenly out of the desert, in somebody's back yard, how expedient.
And as for The Jackal, somebody like that would hardly come charging out all alone, where were his men? Ooh what a lame corny script!
Nothing you could take seriously. Except the beauty of the female star.