From blockbusters to box sets, family favourites to comedy classics, who knows what you’ll open up and discover between now and Christmas? Check what’s on here: Here’s to a wonderful Christmas!
#THE RETURN TO THE BLUE LAGOON NUDITY WINDOWS#
If you prefer to unwrap a surprise this Christmas from Wednesday 1 December to Christmas Eve, All 4 will be bringing you a different show from behind the numbered windows of the All 4 Advent Calendar. This year, the frostiest of hearts will be warmed by the beautiful adaptation of Terry Pratchett’s The Abominable Snow Baby. It simply wouldn’t be Christmas without an animated film for all the family to enjoy. You could spend Christmas in The Dog House, The Lake District Farm Shop and Castle Howard or plan a Luxury Christmas for Less, watch some First Dates or tune in to see Joe Lycett hosting Mummy’s Christmas Do, live from Birmingham. Plus, Matt Baker opens up his festive farm in the Dales, Jamie Oliver has the perfect menus to create special Christmas memories with friends and family, and Kirstie Allsopp will be on hand for all your yuletide crafting needs. And festive episodes of telly favourites include The Last Leg, Gogglebox and, as it’s Christmas, a Big Fat Quiz. Seasonal specials from the Great British Bake Off tent and the Taskmaster house return with some surprise new faces.
Below is a sneaky peak at some of what is to come.
#THE RETURN TO THE BLUE LAGOON NUDITY TV#
Graham made a career of TV movies and although RETURN TO THE BLUE LAGOON had a theatrical release, it feels very much like a second-rate outing in every respect.There’s a bonanza of festive treats on Channel 4 this Christmas. Jovovich definitely has something feral within her, but less use is made of that as in THE FIFTH ELEMENT, which handled her unique qualities perfectly. The age gap between Milla Jovovich and Brian Krause is too obvious, and Krause is as equally wooden as Christopher Atkins before him. The acting doesn't really sit right either. Once again the film is all about puberty, isolation, love and family, except as it's not original it feels like a lukewarm rehash of the first movie. There are a few differences here - the adult with them is a woman, the boy is the son of the couple from THE BLUE LAGOON, they're staying in the same place so make use of the already-there house, etc. It's an entirely superfluous kind of film that sees yet another couple of kids washed up on a desert island and having to fend for themselves against nature and their fellow man. RETURN TO THE BLUE LAGOON, made 11 years after the successful first film, is one of those movies that's happy to reprise the plot of the original while adding a few twists and tweaks of its own. After a confrontation with one of the crew and the captain's daughter, Lilli finds herself pregnant and they decide to stay, as they feel the civilization the visitors have to offer will not compare to the life they lead on the island. Years later as the children grow into adulthood, the film skims the same themes as the first of their developing relationship, and introduces the characters to civilization when a ship, low on fresh water, stops on their island and offers to take them home. When Sarah dies from pneumonia, she leaves the children far more prepared than Richard and Emmeline in the first film.
Fixing up the hut and settling in the children, Sarah begins their life on the island, slowly teaching the children survival tools, as well as schooling them as though they were in school, and teaching them slowly about the facts of life, including Lilli's eventual growth to womanhood. The infant Richard, recognizing where he is, finds his home and is very upset not to find his parents. Taking control of the small craft, she eventually guides them back to the island of the first film. With water and food running short, the crew member escorting Sarah and the children becomes dangerous, so Sarah takes the only course of action she feels suitable to preserve the children: she strikes him and throws him overboard. Struck by cholera, the crew of the ship start to die and the captain sets Sarah, Richard, Lilli and a healthy crew member on a lifeboat in an attempt to preserve their lives. Taken in by Sarah, a widow with an infant baby girl Lilli, Richard (Paddy) is cared for in a return to civilization. Established in the first film, the only word Paddy ever says is "Richard", so the crew assumes Richard is the infant's name. We open the film with a ship finding the craft with our original characters in it, Richard and Emmeline dead and Paddy alive. While the general theme of this film resembles "The Blue Lagoon" (the film for which this is a sequel), the basic plot is quite different.