Cocoon Collection

Comedy

Science Fiction

Cocoon: The Return

The Zanuck/Brown Company

20th Century Fox

United States of America

English

Don Ameche

Wilford Brimley

Courteney Cox

Hume Cronyn

Jack Gilford

Steve Guttenberg

Barret Oliver

Maureen Stapleton

Elaine Stritch

Jessica Tandy

Gwen Verdon

Tahnee Welch

Linda Harrison

Tyrone Power Jr.

Mike Nomad

Wendy J. Cooke

Herta Ware

Brian C. Smith

Fred Buch

Harold Bergman

Glenn Scherer

Tom Kouchalakos

Alan Jordan

Fritz Dominique

Iris Acker

Will Marchetti

Shelley Spurlock

Ted Milford

Chris Fuxa

Bill Wohrman

Jay Smith

Tony Vila Jr.

Brian Jay Andrews

David Easton

Matt Ford

Jack McDermott

Darcy Shean

Barry Mizerski

Madeline Lee

Mal Jones

Patricia Rainier

Richard Jasen

Patricia Winters

Rachel Renick

Ryan Szurgot

Anthony Finazzo

Kelly Jasen

Stephanie Oldziej

Priscilla Ashley Behne

Glenn L. Robbins

Bruce McLaughlin

Buddy Reynolds

Carlos González

Kevin Corrigan

Robert Gwaltney

Robert Short

Brian Dennehy

Sean Cunningham

Maggie Grant

Kai Thorup

Elizabeth Bradley

Tak Fujimoto

Stephen McPherson

Mark Warner

Ve Neill

David Brown

Richard D. Zanuck

Lili Fini Zanuck

Daniel Petrie

David Saperstein

James Horner

Shawn Murphy

Gary Rydstrom

Richard Hymns

Gary Summers

Tim Holland

Ruth A. Redfern

Chick Bernhard

Filipe Manuel Neto

**Lazy, laying in the shadow of the original film, doesn't have much merit in itself.**

Daniel Petrie decided to take a film that was successful and acquired a certain affection and make a poor sequel. I think almost everyone knows that a sequel to a good movie is almost never as good as the original movie... it could be a cliché, but the truth is that it is something so common that it has become something to watch. Besides, for studios, it's a good way to make money without considerable effort or a big capital draw.

What this film offers us is, in short, more of the same, but without any charm. The film leans against the shadow of the predecessor's success and peacefully slumbers in the belief that we will like it because we liked the first film. It didn't work for me. The only thing that makes this movie really worthwhile is the fact that it reunites most of its predecessor's cast. It's worth seeing some of the shenanigans of Don Ameche, Wilford Brimey, Maureen Stapleton and Jack Gilford. You can tell they're having a lot of fun with the project, and that the film, even if it's not brilliant, allowed them to revisit characters they enjoyed playing. The movie works reasonably well thanks to this, and the older cast almost have their own separate sub-plot, but the movie loses out by not going beyond that, thanks to a rather weak script. Steve Guttenberg, for example, is even more uninteresting here than he was in the original film, which is really something relevant. Technically, the film doesn't make any major mistakes or flaws, but it isn't particularly brilliant.

Cocoon: The Return (1988) 35mm film trailer, flat open matte, 2160p

Cocoon: The Return (1988) Trailer

Cocoon The Return 1988 TV spot

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Cocoon: The Return

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Cast

Don Ameche

Wilford Brimley

Courteney Cox

Hume Cronyn

Jack Gilford

Steve Guttenberg

Barret Oliver

Maureen Stapleton

Elaine Stritch

Jessica Tandy

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