Tockinit not horrible nor great

Breakinger A Brilliant Conflict

Roy Hart If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

roppo32640 what was the name of the boat, was it the lollipop, castaways I forget.This was a fun part of my life care free just going into my Junior year of high school. And a 17 year old guy that loved Maryann and ginger mostly Maryann.Junk words that's all they used back then was junk word it made the show that's why it was such a popular show you got to take of your stuffed shirts and fall back into the wonderful world of Gilligans Island This was a fun show everyone was into their own thing.The professor was making different inventions to get of the Island,Ginger created ways to stay beautiful.It was a must see for me each day.

eefan2001 If I were stranded on a desert island and allowed only one TV show, it would be "Gilligan's Island". For all it silliness, it's a psychologically complex show. Gilligan screws up every rescue attempt (except for the Don Rickles episode which, interestingly enough, is blown by Ginger)but clearly this is his subconscious working. Why would he want to be rescued? The island offers shelter and plenty of food, so he's in no danger of dying. He's got his best friend, the Skipper. He has a mentor in the Professor. He has parent figures in the Howells (rather strange parent figures, but still parent figures), a fantasy love interest in Ginger, and a realistic love interest in Mary Ann. Why would he want to leave? None of them seem that interested in leaving. Once every couple months, they'll concoct a half-hearted scheme to build a raft or light a signal fire, but overall they're more interested in their wardrobes or putting on talent shows or electing a leader on an island where everyone pretty much does what he or she pleases to begin with... It's a commentary on how man will change any landscape to suit his or her image. Gilligan's motives for staying have been outlined. Skipper is finally a leader (at least in his mind). The Howells love being among people they can clearly feel superior to. Ginger is now the celebrity she always imagined herself being, since her roles in minor movies show she was never A-list. The Professor is totally getting off on being the brains. Mary Ann feels useful and important, probably for the first time in her life, by being the only truly sensible person on the island. The show also comments on man's laziness: letting others do the work. When a guest star arrives the castaways always see that person as salvation, instead of using their own skills to get off the island. This show is awesome. Ginger's gowns alone could be the subject of a book.

John T. Ryan A Quantum Leap in the Evolution of the Sitcom. Honest, really, no sh*t! Little old GILLIGAN'S ISLAND! It's considered to be much funnier than NOVA.Jerry Van Dyke has often mentioned in his appearances on our Late Night talk shows how he had turned down the Title Role of Gilligan, but had accepted the lead in "MY MOTHER, THE CAR"(NBC, 1965-66). Oh well, HE moves in mysterious ways; for thanks to the Good Lord for allowing that questionable career move, or we may not have had the pleasure of Jerry as Luther Van Dam, Asst. Football Coach to Craig T. Nelson's Hayden in "COACH" (1989-97).To comment on the Gilligan phenomenon, we first should take an overview of the TV Sitcom.Born out of necessity, following the shot gun marriage of the old silent and sound two reeler Comedies and the Radio's Comedy series. The Sitcom has been with us ever since the dawn of commercial Telecasts in the 1940's. (The first commercial TV stations were licensed in 1940, but development of the medium was delayed by a little event called World War II.) Some of our earliest series were THE BUSTER KEATON SHOW (1950) ,THE COLLEGE BOWL (1950-51) with Chico Marx and the HANK McCUNE SHOW (1950-53). Hank who (?), we hear you ask.We couldn't find a more obscure name and title if we tried, but on his show, Hank McCune initiated a feature that was found to be an indispensable tool and an outright necessity to all of the comedy series that would follow. And that invention would be the use of the "technically augmented audience reaction", the Recorded Laugh Track.So when the GILLIGAN show hit the TV screen via CBS in 1964, the Television industry had some 15 years or so experience in producing these "ha-ha-ha" sitcom shows that they surely did some studying of what flew and what bombed. Slowly, some variation began to show. Some were successful and others were canned early, their innocuous plot lines and characters to spend their lives in a sort of Limbo of forgotten series.GILLIGAN seems to have done things just a little different. First of all, there were seven (7), count 'em folks, seven regular characters, and everyone was worked into the stories each week. Of course the 7 castaways were the only people on the Island; if one doesn't count the hundreds of temporary visitors who had come and gone their way, week to week.In any play, be it live on stage or a filmed episode, be it comedy or any drama, there is a certain need for exposition and having the story line propelled along its way. So that in a sitcom, each scene should serve some such purpose; and be there not just making for funny dialog and situations. (If you think that there is no such thing as trying to be too funny, just watch an old silent film of comedian Larry Semon.) Once again in getting back to GILLIGAN'S ISLAND, we contend that this series made an additional improvement on the use of the short, little comedy vignettes. In the GILLIGAN Show, the little scenes are devised to bring all of the characters into play, one or two at a time. They also made use of comical situations to move the story along. But they were fashioned in a manner so as to be able to virtually stand on their own without the rest of the story. (Not that there would be any call for a 3 to 4 minute comedy film!) The other achievement of the Production Staff of GILLIGAN'S ISLAND is one that they most probably did not accomplish on purpose. And that would be (My Theory) that in fashioning the short scenes in this manner, almost always using regular characters well known to viewers, have created the celluloid equivalent of the Daily Newspaper Comic Strip. This strong similarity in form and literary device is most apparent in comparing GILLIGAN to the 3 or 4 panels of daily strips like: MUTT & JEFF, BRINGING UP FATHER (Maggie & Jiggs), BLONDIE, BEETLE BAILEY, MOON MULLINS and even PEANUTS (with good ol' Charlie Brown.).Otherwise, the series ranks very high on the all time list of the Situation Comedy and was the subject of several "back-to type of Made-for-TV Movies as well as animated series of "THE NEW ADVENTURES OF GILLIGAN.

BumpyRide This review may sound caustic but I hope I never have to watch another episode from this show ever again. I grew up watching this show in syndication from 1969, then it went to Saturday morning TV, then through the colorized TBS years, past the not so special reunion shows, up until a few years ago watching "The Real Gilligan's Island" movie. I've gorged myself with Gilligan's Island and I've had my share, one can only eat so much cake. I always enjoyed the earlier shows the most, having them building their huts, trying to fix the Minnow only to have it fall apart because the glue disintegrated, hiding from savages in a cave and so on. It was a great ensemble cast with a pretty cool lagoon set complete with running waterfall. I've moved on now, and it's time to say goodbye and farewell. Thanks for the memories little Buddy.