Richard and Emmeline Lestrange die leaving their son Paddy as the sole survivor. The rescue ship is overwhelmed with suspected cholera. Mr. Kearney, Mrs. Sarah Hargrave with her daughter Lilli, and Paddy renamed Richard are cast off in the lifeboat. Kearney threatens the toddlers and Sarah kills him. The trio ends up back at the original island. After Sarah's death, Lilli (Milla Jovovich) and Richard (Brian Krause) are left to themselves.The story gymnastics are annoying as heck to make the sequel basically a repeat of the original. I'm sure anybody would be laughing with derision at the silly plot repeat. The original has the possibility of being a guilty pleasure. This is an unforgivable embarrassment for anybody who actually likes the sequel. I have nothing against the two young actors. Milla obviously has more acting abilities than the usual model. However, there is simply no point to this sequel for an unworthy franchise.

The story starts out with fifteen years passing between the rescue of Richard, Emmeline, and Paddy in their row boat(end of the first film all three were found alive and sleeping not dead). (completely different boat look closely) Sarah (Liilian's mother) and Lillian are one their way home (Sarah's husband passes before the start of the movie) Sarah takes the orphaned boy who they name Richard under her wing. All three are cast off the ship due to a cholera out break on the ship along with one sailor named Kearney. After floating for several days the children become fussy needing water. Kearney not willing to share try's to throw Richard off the boat to drown Sarah defend's Richard and her daughter with a harpoon and beats him in the head until dead and throws him off the boat. After a few more days floating they land on an island that the first movie takes place. Sarah makes a life for herself and the two children in the process they find the last couples hut. She teaches them manor's, proper spelling, and the changes of life (which the first film lacked). During a storm a branch falls through the roof and she goes to patch it and gets pneumonia doing so. She knows she is going to pass and gives the children directions on what to do when she does. They have their traditional Easter Egg hunt which Richard lets Lillian win and her prize is a pearl. Richard and Lillian go into puberty, also falling in love with each other. They have their traditional Easter Egg hunt which Richard lets Lillian when and her prize is a pearl. They end up doing a wedding ceremony by Lillian's mothers grave. A few months later another ship seeking fresh water bringing another woman Sylvia with them trying to steal Richard from Lillian along with a money hungry sailor who ends up trying to steal the pearl. After Sylvia makes a pass at Richard he realizes how much he truly loves Lillian and goes looking for her. He gets closer to their hut and hears her screaming out for help. He see's the sailor trying to rape her and he jumps on him. The sailor shooting at him the rest off the crew on the shore hears the gun fire and comes to help. Get's the sailor off of Richard and arrests him. After they leave Lillian tells she is pregnant and doesn't want to have their baby in civilization and Richard tells her how much he loves her. They stay and raise their baby together on the island.

In 'Blue Lagoon' the movie ends with the young couple and their baby adrift at sea as a boat approaches. We don't really know what happened or if they survived. This movie, "Return", takes up where that one ended, somewhere in the Pacific, in the late 1800s.As a small party from the ship board the small boat, they find the parents no longer alive, but the baby boy is fine. On board the ship are a mother and her daughter, and she decides to care for the baby boy. But on board the crew soon begin to come down with an illness, Cholera, so the woman and the two small children are put out on a lifeboat, it is their only chance to survive.The story that results is very similar to the first movie, in that an adult and 2 small children are stranded on an uncharted island, in fact the same uncharted island, and there the children grow into young adulthood.Milla Jovovich, who was only 14 or 15 during filming, is very suitable as Lilli, the girl the baby grew into on the island. Brian Krause, who was 20 or 21 during filming, was Richard, the boy that the baby boy grew into. As the story progressed and they entered puberty we see them facing many of the behavioral issues the teens in the first movie faced, and mirror what teens in our own society face.No, by no means is this a great movie but it is interesting. It is too much like the first one so not much new is explored, but interesting to see anyway.MAJOR SPOILERS: As the 4 are initially out to sea in the small boat the seaman sees they are running short of water and wants to throw the two small crying children overboard. As he begins to the mom takes a harpoon and knocks him out them dumps him into the ocean. The remaining three of them come ashore and soon find the home that the boy and his young parents had left not long before. As the children grow, and are maybe 8 and 10, the mom gets pneumonia and instructs them how to bury her and carve a memorial after she dies. As they get to be teenagers they decide to marry and have their own ring ceremony, then basically behave as if they are on their honeymoon. A ship shows up and a small crew comes ashore looking for fresh water, and the captain's daughter, Sylvia, tempts Richard, tries to seduce him but he spurns her advances to stay true to Lilli. A rogue crewman tries to violate Lilli, eventually tries to shoot Richard, but gets eaten by a shark as he chases Richard into water off the reef. After all these experiences Lilli and Richard decide to stay on the island and have their baby there, instead of going back to "civilization."

I didn't think this movie was too bad.I didn't necessarily like that Richard and Em from the first movie wound up being found dead by different people when they were found "just sleeping" at the end of the first one by Richard's father. Kinda takes away from the first movie, but I guess it was necessary to set up the angle of their son in the sequel.I think the fact that they were more educated than the couple in the first movie was good, because it gave it it's own element. No one wanted to see a complete repeat of the Blue Lagoon. But the innocence is still there.The fact that they wound up on the same island isn't that far-fetched. They were in the area when they lost their paddle in the first movie. The location they stayed with Paddy as kids in the first movie wasn't THAT far from where they wound up staying after he died. In the second movie, The mother and the kids get dropped off the main boat, so it was probably the closest land there was.And for the people that wondered where the tribe came from when they didn't see them for years, they came every 3 months when it was a full moon outside. That's where the drums were coming from AND the boats going through the water in the middle of the night. They were just never allowed to go to the other side of the island, ITS THE LAW! lol and when they did sneak over there, there was no full moon, so the tribe wasn't there.I liked that they brought in "civilized" people towards the end of the movie. It let the viewers see how they'd interact with other people. They always knew that they were supposed to ask to be taken back to civilization if a ship ever came, but if the only interaction they had with "civilized" people was being shot at and attempted rape, I'd want to stay on the island too.Overall, it wasn't that bad of a movie. Maybe not as good as the first, but what sequel is? I'd recommend it.