If you like watching movies with slightly overdone acting, beautiful scenery and a pretty damn good musical score, this is the movie for you. Brooke Shields and Chris Atkins did a very good job and the writing was what some people call original and others call far-fetched. However, I'm sure a lot of people would conside it sexist that when the two kids found the ship's cook dead, the boy had a shirt on and the girl didn't. Not only that, but also the scenes with Brooke Shields topless and the kids running around naked. Nowadays, there's no way a movie like this would even get off the ground. If it caused as much controversy as it did when it was released in 1980, imagine the backlash that would come with it today. Plus, to hardly anyone's surprise, it struck out with many a critic. But other than that, I actually thought this movie was pretty good.
Review of The Blue Lagoon
