Island of Lost Girls

I thought this was a great movie, but it's important to know that it was basically written by kids, for kids. If you're an adult that loves kids you'll like it too. It reminded me of when my daughter was that age. The people who said this movie was horrible probably have very little imagination, and love to see the same old garbage Hollywood puts out year after year. They're also probably helicopter parents that go to the hospital at the first sign of a sniffle or skinned knee. To suggest that these kids were in any real danger because something you see IN A MOVIE looked dangerous is ridiculous. The whole point was to make it look dangerous... it's a movie.

These girls are tough. Must be from a surfing family. Fantastic swimmers, and such great attitudes in this movie and towards each other.

And to the downers in these reviews that didn't believe you can get pulled out to sea without anyone hearing, well yes you can. Sometimes when they hear, they just stand on the beach and watch it happen then walk away, I've seen this. Take care of your children at the beach, other people don't pay attention or perhaps just don't care.

Back to the movie, it was so good I watched it twice the same evening. And, sent a text to my bestie to watch it.

The in depth reviews on here that are positive, believe them. I'm not going to rewrite the same things that have already been said. I will reiterate, I'm so glad I find this movie and watched it on a lark, it was phenomenal.

...I had to for this one. It's really terrible. I mean, again, I've never cared about writing reviews until this one. I legit think the kids were at risk during this filming. I'm positive that in one of the scenes when the kid gets hit by a boogie board in back of the head, she actually got hit by the boogie board! The look on the little kids face was not acting, she was legit scared! This movie is not only terrible in the story telling but these kids were actually put in dangerous situations. I'm getting my money back. It feels gross to support how these directors were so desperate to make their movie that they put innocent kids in absurd situations. Also, they probably didn't even have permission to film at these locations.

I was surprised by how good this movie was. My whole family including my wife, two 8 yr old girls and 6 yr old son were completely drawn into this film. We remarked early on that the cinematography and sound work seemed really creative. The nature scenes seemed out of National Geographic as well. There were points where we were laughing and points we were crying. I thought all 3 young actresses did a phenomenal job. Was legitimately shocked at the end to find out that this was a family production. I think it was much better than some (most) professional productions I've seen lately. A poignant family story with some style. Don't really understand some of these negative reviews - they read like they were written by some very unhappy, negative people. The movie did drag on a bit but my kids were into it the whole time which is saying something. We loved it overall.

I see that half of the reviewers rated the film as it deserves, that is a little more than zero. So I wouldn't have added another similar review and rating, but - you know - I just couldn't help.

This is "A Schmidt Family Film", as we read in the credits. (I have no idea who this family is). The film is screenwritten and directed by Ann-Marie and Brian Schmidt, and its three major actresses are the little girls Avila Shmidt, Scarlet Schmidt, and Autumn Fiore (whose last name is also Schmidt).

I see also that 51,1 % of the voters on IMDb (it's 24 people, so far), rated the film a 10/10: I wonder if all these people's last name is Schmidt. That would be "A Schmidt Family Rating".

As you can easily ascertain - if you can afford to waste something less than 2 hours of your life -, "The Island of Lost Girls" has very very little to share with what everybody - for something more than a century, now - agrees in calling "cinematic work". Yes, stock film (more probabily digital pixels) has been used (and wasted); yes, there are images in movement. But.

But there is no plot whatsoever. The three little (and probably endagered, as a previous review suggested) actresses, as protagonists, struggle incessantly, from the beginning to the end, to save their lives from very unrealistic and highly elusive dangers. And no more. Sometimes some tricks pertaining to the most uncontrolled times of the slapstick comedy of the 1910's are used, but with far less effectiveness.

Watch some Fatty Arbuckle instead.