Product Details

• Actors: Don Ameche, Wilford Brimley, Courteney Cox, Hume Cronyn, Jack Gilford
• Directors: Daniel Petrie
• Writers: David Saperstein, Elizabeth Bradley, Stephen McPherson
• Producers: David Brown, Gary Daigler, Lili Fini Zanuck, Richard D. Zanuck
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: 20th Century Fox
• VHS Release Date: April 1, 1997
• Run Time: 116 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6301300556
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #159,484 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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21 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars As good as the original and that's high praise, October 10, 2000

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D. Thomas Longo Jr. (Delmar, MD USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Cocoon - The Return [VHS] (VHS Tape)

See my review of the original "Cocoon." Much the same can be said for this sequel. As another reviewer commented, the hospital scene between Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy is very touching. There is good belly laugh material too, for example when the oldsters take on some arrogant young basketball hotshots. I want to say a word for the soundtrack, too, the music. Lovely themes, well done and well integrated. This film and the original are good jobs all around and leave one (at least me) with a warm glow.

13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Growing Old Is Not For Sissies, September 5, 2003

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Peter Kenney (Birmingham, Alabama, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cocoon - The Return [VHS] (VHS Tape)

In this sequel most of the main members of the cast from COCOON return on a visit to their old retirement community in St. Petersburg, Florida after an absence of five years. Their extraterrestrial hosts provide the transportation as they have to return to earth to rescue another one of their comrades left behind on an earlier trip. This means that not only are Don Ameche, Wilfred Brimley, Hume Cronyn, Maureen Stapleton, Jessica Tandy and Gwen Verdon back but also Brian Dennehy , Tawnee Welch and Tyrone Power, Jr. from the original spaceship crew as well as the skipper of the glass bottom boat (Steve Guttenberg) and crusty old Jack Gifford. The big question on this trip is mostly about who will elect to stay on earth and who will decide to go back to eternal bliss. That is not an easy decision to make and we all probably have some experience wrestling with the same question.

For those who are curious about whatever happened to the initial voyagers this movie will be satisfying even though it gets a little heavy at times. There are some memorable scenes especially a few involving Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy, Jack Guttenberg and Tawnee Welch. Daniel Petrie is the new director in place of Ron Howard.

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Worthy effort., December 7, 2001

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Erik Morton "Erik Morton" (Carmel, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cocoon - The Return [VHS] (VHS Tape)

The orininal is by far better, and this new one at times allows (dare I say!) mediocrity to set in. But for a sequal, this is pretty good. This time, the familiar alien group returns to earth to save a fellow extraterrestrial , who has been captured by the St. Petersburg Oceanograpic Institute (or somethin' like that). Which also gives time for the good old group of retirees to visit their old friends. The all the elements are back: science fiction, fantasy, drama, and a lot more laughs! It still manages to drag a few tears out of you. Still a good science fiction movie saga.