Greetings fellow Gilligan fans!! I was watching Rescue the other day and it got me thinking....do you think the way the movie ended, with the Minnow II being caught in another storm and returning them "home" to thier island was a good ending, or would you have rather seen the castaways living "happily ever after" back in civilization.

What I would have most likely done, would be to blend the Castaways and Rescue movie together...

I think it would be nice for them to have at least one successful cruise, so maybe after they return to port from the maiden voyage of Minnow II following the Christmas party, they could remark on an island they passed that reminded them of thier "old home", to which Gilligan remarks about how wouldn't it be nice if there was an island resort that was like thier island so they can get away from the pressures of society whenever they need to. To which Mr. Howel suggests building such a resort.

I personally think the ending was dumb and stupid. I hated that movie especially because the original Ginger wasn't in it.

SSSSHHHHHH!!!!

You'll scare off the customers.

I think for what the movie was supposed to be--nostalgic, clever, 90 minutes of entertainment, the ending was cute--it was more of a plot-driven than character-driven movie that played upon the most obvious things associated with the castaways. In this way, the plot came to a nice little circle with an ironic twist but also a somewhat happy ending since everything was "worse" back home. It was cute and fun. The experience of the movie is not the same as experiencing GI the series at all. Yet, for what it WAS, I thought the ending was cute.

I just remember that it was an incredible thrill to get more GI after a long break and moreover to see how they finally got off the island. Of course Tina was missed but not to the point where the movie was ruined.
Yes the ending was silly and in a way frustrating after all that, but it also made its point. Besides, whatever part of me found it frustrating was alleviated by 'Castaways' which I thought was a good compromise.

I think the ending was predictable.I don't know why they were angry to get stranded again anyway.Mary Ann lost her long time fiancé,the professor wasn't taken seriously,Ginger's carrer was going downhill.The Howells had hard time ajusting with all changings.Seriously,none of them fit there nomore.

What I would have like to see is Gilligan proposing to Mary Ann after pulling her in the chariot with him.I was waiting for him to say...Mary Ann,I love you,will you marry me?Something like that ;)

Celine, I might have said this before--forgive me. No one knows that he didn't propose to her or at least say something along those lines. Usually, I think, disruption of a wedding by one man carries with it a similar offer by the disruptor. We couldn't hear their conversation--they looked pretty cozy, though, on the tractor ( yes, I know, speeding, watermelons, etc.--but beyond that). The only problem is continuity with the other movies--G and M are not married in that but, GI is sometimes inconsistent. But I think alot of people expected what you did from that scene; it certainly looked as if that was what was going to happen and I think it that had definitely been the end of all GI productions and movies it would have. The tractor segment is one of the few parts of the GI Rescue movie in which Gilligan actually seems like the old Gilligan from the series and that recaptures one of the old relationships from the original series (G and M). For example, one would never guess from the Rescue movie how close Ginger and Maryann really were or how Thirston cared for Gilligan. But, to get back to your point--totally understandable reaction!!!!

All the way through the film, the castaways keep lamenting the fact that civilization isn't like the Island, where they all trusted and cared for each other. Now they don't know who to trust. Even the Howells' aged butler, on meeting the Skipper and Gilligan, gasps gratefully, "You're from the Island!" as though they are visitors from paradise. A gag movie poster for Gilligan's Island contained a very perceptive ad line: "Sometimes you can't go looking for paradise; sometimes you've got to make it." All through this film, the castaways realize what they had made, and what they have lost.

I would have loved to see the castaways making a conscious, unanimous decision to go back to their Island. They could inform their families and take a transistor, and anything else they'd need. I would have loved to see the film ending with their beloved, beautiful Island on the horizon, and the castaways saying, "We're saved."

Ah well. I guess the other version was funnier.

Oh, I meant transmitter, not transistor.

I hated the ending too, but yet I loved Gilligan's line "We're home!" after which the Skipper chases him around the island. :lol:

What I don't understand is why in the next movie, "Castaways On Gilligan's Island" they turned the Island into a resort with guests and yet didn't realize that if people could come and go off the Island, so could they? :confused: