After The Blue Lagoon came out in 1980, the idea of cashing in had to appeal to exploitation filmmakers all over the world. After all, all you needed was a young guy and girl willing to get naked and do some love scenes on an island paradise. In Canada, Stuart Gillard — the man who would one day direct Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III — made Paradise with Phoebe Cates and Willie Aames. In Italy, directors Enzo Doria and Luigi Russo — who would go on to produce the similar yet Biblical Adam and Eve vs. the Cannibals a year later with Mark Gregory and Andrea Goldman — worked with writer Dardano Sacchetti (what movies didn’t he write in the 80s in Italy?) to bring their own version of La Laguna Blu to Italian screens with Fabio Meyer as Billy and Sabrina Siani as Bonnie.

As always, Siani is probably the best reason to watch this. She seems supernatural, like some kind of goddess carved from clay on Themyscira. She does the same in so many of the movies that she appears in, like Conquest, The Throne of Fire, 2020 Texas Gladiators and Ator the Fighting Eagle.

They land on a deserted island after a plane crash and think they’re all alone, but nope. There’s someone else on the island — Shanghai (Mario Pedone) — who at times seems like an enemy and other times a friend but then becomes an enemy again and then he saves them from a poisonous mollusk. Ah, confusion in an Italian movie, I love it so very much.

This was called Due gocce d’acqua salata in Italy, which means Two Drops of Salt Water. Blue Island is a much better name for this movie.

That said, for all the attention that Brooke Shields got for her beauty, I’d definitely say that she’s in Siani’s shadow.