Cocoon: The Return

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., Daniel Petric rises to the challenge of directing this sequel to Ron Howard’s successful original. Those who chose immortality with the Antareans return with the aliens. The visitors are back to rescue a cocoon found on the ocean floor and now the subject of scientific investigation, while the immortal old folk are back to visit growing grandsons and ageing friends. Once again, Don Ameche, Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn – as Arthur Selwyn, Alma Finley and Joseph Finley respectively – steal the film, but new face Elaine Strich, as Ruby Steinberg, the hotel owner the others try to fix up with stay-behind Bernard Lefkowitz, is also a delight. As the two plots merge, can the Antareans rescue their friend, and will the immortals return or stay on Earth to grow old and die? Edited for content., Sequel to the fantasy hit ‘Cocoon’. The senior citizens who found themselves whisked off to the planet Antarea in the first chapter of the saga return for a four-day stopover on Earth to visit their old friends – and to decide whether to return to Antarea or live out their final years amongst their own kind., Sequel in which senior citizens who found eternal life on the planet Antarea journey back to Earth., Sequel in which senior citizens who found eternal life on the planet Antarea journey back to Earth, Daniel Petric rises to the challenge of directing this sequel to Ron Howard’s successful original., Daniel Petric rises to the challenge of directing this sequel to Ron Howard’s successful original. Those who chose immortality with the Antareans return with the aliens. The visitors are back to rescue a cocoon found on the ocean floor and now the subject of scientific investigation, while the immortal old folk are back to visit growing grandsons and ageing friends. Once again, Don Ameche, Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn – as Arthur Selwyn, Alma Finley and Joseph Finley respectively – steal the film, but new face Elaine Strich, as Ruby Steinberg, the hotel owner the others try to fix up with stay-behind Bernard Lefkowitz, is also a delight. As the two plots merge, can the Antareans rescue their friend, and will the immortals return or stay on Earth to grow old and die?, Five years since the senior citizens blasted off into space with the Antareans return to earth because their alien friends have to collect the rest of the cocoons in the ocean, believed to be in danger from an earthquake. Ben and Mary visit their family, while Art and Joe visit Bernie, who’s still hangin’ on.