Search - Cocoon: The Return on DVD

MPAA Rating: PG Content Advisory: Adult Language Movie Release: 1988 DVD Release: 06/01/2004 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV,Pan and Scan - Closed Captioned Audio Tracks: English, French, Spanish Subtitles: English, Spanish SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 56 mins Studio: 20th Century Fox Total Copies: 4 Genres: Comedy Drama, Science Fiction, Sci-Fi Comedy

Cocoon 2: The Return, like most sequels, relies a bit too heavily on one's familiarity with the first film. Without dwelling too long on Cocoon #1, we can observe that it ended with a group of senior citizens heading for the distant planet of Antarea, hoping to find a new, rewarding and elongated life. Cocoon 2 picks up the action five years later: The Antareans return to earth to check on the damage caused to their life-regenerating cocoons by earthquakes. Coming along for the ride are the elderly couples whom we met in the first film. Also carried over from the first Cocoon are young ferryboat captain Steve Guttenberg and gorgeous Antarean Tahnee Welch, who resume their interplanetary romance. Oldster Jack Gilford, whose beloved wife died in Cocoon, likewise finds romance in the form of Elaine Stritch. A secondary plot involves an insidious secret government plan to exploit the Antareans, which is foiled by sympathetic researcher Courteney Cox. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Don Ameche - Art Selwyn
Wilford Brimley - Ben Luckett
Hume Cronyn - Joe Finley
Jack Gilford - Bernie Lefkowitz
Steve Guttenberg - Jack Bonner
Maureen Stapleton - Mary Luckett

Daniel Petrie replaced Ron Howard in the director's chair for Cocoon: The Return, which reunites much of the original cast. The film makes its debut on DVD with a pair of transfers. The widescreen anamorphic transfer preserves the original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.85:1, and is preferable to the standard full-frame image. A closed-captioned English soundtrack is rendered in Dolby Digital 5.1, a French soundtrack has been recorded in Dolby Digital Surround, and a Dolby Digital Mono Spanish soundtrack can be accessed as well. English and Spanish subtitles are available. There are no supplemental materials of any consequence, but this disc does offer solid sound and picture quality. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide