Return to the Blue Lagoon is a 1991 American South Seas romantic adventure film directed and produced by William A. Graham and starring Milla Jovovich and Brian Krause.
The film tells the story of two young children marooned on a tropical island paradise in the South Pacific.
Set in the South Pacific Ocean in the year 1897, beginning right where the original film left off, a ship finds a little dinghy with three passengers.
Richard lets Lilli win the child's game of Easter egg hunt and dives to find her an adult's pearl as a reward.
His penchant for racing a lagoon shark sparks a quarrel; Lilli thinks he is foolhardy, but the liveliness makes Richard feel virile.
Soon after, a ship arrives at the island, carrying unruly sailors, a proud captain, and his spoiled daughter, Sylvia Hilliard.
Because of this, the project remained in limbo until December 1989, when Randal Kleiser told the Long Beach Press-Telegram that the screenplay was nearing completion and photography would begin in 1990.
However, Kleiser would be unavailable to direct, as he would be in Alaska filming White Fang but intended to act as executive producer in association with Frank Price.
The site's consensus reads: "Despite its lush tropical scenery and attractive leads, Return to the Blue Lagoon is as ridiculous as its predecessor, and lacks the prurience and unintentional laughs that might make it a guilty pleasure".
[1] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 28 out of 100, based on 17 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".
Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a grade of "B" on scale of A+ to F.[2] The 1991 sequel was made available for streaming through various services.