Island of Lost Girls

First off, I have to give Kudos to the director, screen writer, and actors. About 20 min into the movie I said - this film seems like it was written, directed, and filmed by these 3 girls - Turns out I was almost 100% correct. I my whole family enjoyed the film. My two youngest kids, 5 and 7 did find it to be intense at times and they were so drawn into the lives of the characters that they were legitimately concerned for the girls safety. This would be such a hard film to make. Working with young actors on the water and in the wild would be so difficult. The movie despite being a bit cheesy at times was still well done. Kudos tot he actors and the Schmidt family has our full support. Hoping that producing this film didn't break them and make them not want to produce any more as Im sure towards the end it become a labor of love. Thanks for making something that the whole family could sit down and watch.

...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.

If you want to watch a movie where the storyline is absurd and you spend about an hour watching three little girls get into the most ridiculous predicaments back to back then this trainwreck is your movie. My youngest daughter got so scared she ran out of the room. I have four daughters and they all agree it's just absurd.

If the attempt was to make a feel-good movie about sisterhood they failed at that too. The far majority of the dialogue is three little girls screaming.

Each challenge these three face (including several near-drowning moments) are nerve-racking and quite disturbing considering the main acresses are kids.

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.

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.