Here on Gilligan's Isle.....Skipperrrr!!!

Rating: Null/10 (13 January 2001)

I know this was meant to be a read dead serious flick, but I kept on saying to myself, at crucial points in this-'Skipper!! Gilligan!' or 'What would the Professor do? Why take that rubber dinghy and the hose and fashion up a MacGyver style Entertainment Center!'
SPOILERS BELOW!!
Try as I might, I hadda hard time getting as into the characters' pain as they wanted us too. Sure I winced come dentist time, or when he cuts his feet or whatever, and yeah I was glad when he made the fire-but--it seemed somehow or other to be superficial. I didn't for a minute believe that he could make it out into the Wide open Pacific the way he did on his log raft without either starving to death, being drowned or just plain winding up on another island. Coincidence time I know counts in flix, but still...passing over a shipping lane at that very moment a freighter is going by? Surrre...
I liked some of the how-does-Tom-make-it bits, him exploring the island, or making fire or clothes or getting the fish or whatever, but the whole Robinson Crusoe thing has been done before, and I think we could have seen more of him there and less with the tacked on ending. I wanted to know him somewhat more, heck Wilson there had as much to say as Tom did at times.
And the ending-okay Helen Hunt can't stand to leave her new family, but at the same time, claims she wants Tom still, despite her refusal to see him at the airport. What gives there?? Why weren't we shown more of his transition on the ship then back home, heck even Time and CNN seemed to cover it, surely we the audience deserved that too.
Now I liked the fact Lari White(I knew it was a country singer, thought for sure it was Pam Tillis, oh well...)made a cameo at the end, and that Tom's fate is uncertain as that of Terry Anderson's, for example was back in '91 when he came back, but-something is missing here. Someone here points out that Tom and Helen oughta had more to say to one another. I agree.
Acting and production values of course are all fine, but-the punchline ain't that great. Maybe they shoulda ended the flick about the time the boat finds him? I woulda...
*** outta ****-Tom and Zemeckis are too good to cut it any lower, but Lord knows the writers make it tempting...