Realrockerhalloween The awakening is 51st another lose remake trying to copy the originality and fresh feel of the first of two teenagers falling in love.A modern day retelling has Emma and Dean on a high school trip aboard seas. Already the plot seems out there as Natlie Holloway had gone missing in the Bahamas five years earlier and all future school trips like this were banned.While the other events are completely ignored and we seen the same experiences before it didn't really pick up until the rescue from the search part.Brooke Sheilds and Christopher Atkins making guest appearances as A parent to each child.Emma being a popular girl, well Dean's not, tries to push her feelings aside and go on with her life like nothing happened. More of a stretch is that Dean was the masculine sexy broading type who wouldn't be so uncool or a girl would be ashamed to take home to mama.The theme I liked explored here that was touched on in the sequel was you never knew if the couples belonged together or its a matter of convince.Dean and Emma chose each other at the end based on mural attractions and inner self they learned about one another in a secured space.It was more enjoyable then return and felt this was the follow up we've been waiting for.8/10

SnoopyStyle Emma Robinson (Indiana Evans) is a popular sweet girl. Her partying friend Lizzie tries to push her to date the hot quarterback. Dean McMullen (Brenton Thwaites) is the angry school outcast. The class goes to Trinidad to do humanitarian work or more like a privileged Caribbean vacation. They go on a party yacht. The police breaks up the party. Emma falls off the boat. Dean jumps in after her. Dean cuts the line not wanting to get in trouble with the cops. They are lost in the ocean and lands on a desolate island.Dean is a real jerk and a true idiot. He is a horrible character. He could be an interesting quiet introspective outcast. Instead, he is really annoying and fully deserves his outcast position. It doesn't help that he's the reason that they're stranded. He caused the whole thing. The movie needs him to save her to start their adventure. On the positive side, it's two beautiful people on a desert island. The time back home is actually more interesting and a bit more compelling. The last act has some good melodrama. Neither of the actors are terribly good although I can't blame anything on their performance. They did what the movie needs but nothing more.

Rich Wright When updating an 80's 'guilty pleasure' (not one of mine, though) about a couple of teens stranded on a desert island, and finding love and contentment there, you have a few quandaries to work around. Namely: With modern technology, and the world pretty much fully mapped... How on Earth could anyone overlook them? This question isn't quite answered satisfactory (One of them has a working cellphone they could easily be tracked on) but, meh... I'm willing to suspend disbelief if you are.So, here we have a 'popular girl' and a 'social outcast' shacking up together on this far-off isle after a random series of events not worth going into. They hunt fish for food, eat plenty of bananas, build their own shelter, have baths in a photogenic waterfall and screw like rabbits( WHY does she never get pregnant?). Oh, and the bloke kills a jaguar. Woo hoo. The scenery is just as attractive as his abs and her bikini body... But alas, that talent does not extend to their skills as thespians. Never mind... there's always the cover of Vogue to look forward to.Meanwhile, back at home, their friends and family fret... As the search is downgraded to a hunt for their corpses, before being stopped altogether. They never stop hoping though... Including Denise Richards as the mother of the female castaway. Whatever happened to Denise? Once a Bond Girl, now reduced to playing second fiddle to a couple of wannabe models. I guess as your good looks fade, so do all the good roles. Hollywood, sexist? OF COURSE NOT!! Take a good look at her, Indiana Evans. That'll be YOU in 20 years.They get back to the mainland of course, having learnt VALUABLE LESSONS. She's realised there's more to life than parties and the in-crowd... A moment which symbolized by her throwing out all her old gaudy outfits. He finds the courage to reconnect with his estranged father , and they even share a couple of not-at-all forced hugs! Aw. Such character development! Later, he takes her to the prom in the pouring rain. "We've seen far worse than this"! He remarks, as some indie douche warbles away in the background.Well, so have I... But I'd hardly call that a recommendation... 4/10

amadori67 In spite of the spoiler that I read, I really enjoyed the movie up until the ending starting at after they are rescued and Dean shows up at her window the first night. I don't understand after the relationship that developed on the island how she could shut him out of her life so quickly. How is the viewer to understand the scenes with Emma gazing at Dean after the party? I guess one explanation is that immediately upon returning home and viewing facebook, she feels shes is back to her previous life, but as the movies progresses, she realizes that she really has changed. So she calls Dean. And he won't answer. Really? Feeling as he does about her, he ignores her? And she makes one attempt. She doesn't try again, try to see him, or text him. Doesn't make sense. The scene at the end of the movie makes me feel like there are deleted scenes. At the dance when Emma is with her best friend, the friend makes a comment that she knew Emma had it in her. It implies to me that there was a previous scene where Emma confides in her about her relationship with Dean on the island. And Dean showing up at the dance without knowing that Emma is alone suggests Emma's friend advise him that she wasn't going to the dance with the quarterback and if he wants her come and get her. It's just me, but the addition of those two scenes would have made the ending some much more pleasing for me. I would love to see the movie release as a DVD with any deleted scenes included and maybe something that would relieve the viewer of guessing to make things make sense. By the way, I would have been very disappointed in Indiana Evens if there were any nude scenes, even just topless. And I once had sex with a virgin and did not know she was a virgin.