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Return to Lonesome Dove [VHS]

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I watch all parts of the "Lonesome Dove" series and loved them all. "Return to Lonesome Dove" was great but not as good as the original series "Lonesome Dove" There are a few actors that were in the original series. If you liked "Lonesome Dove", you will enjoy this as well along with all the mini series that follow.

The movie was good and would have been better if I had watched it before Lonesome Dove. Lonesome Dove was, in my opinion, one of the best movies of all time. So, those are big shoes to fill. If you remove, Tommy Lee, Robert Duvall, and Dianne Lane, you removed the backbone of the film. Jon Voight did a much better job as Call than James Garner did in the Streets of Laredo but he was still NOT Tommy Lee. However, Barbara Hershey did make a much better Clara than Angelica Houston did in the original. She was the only poor acting in the original. So, that all being said, it was a good film but not Lonesome Dove.

This is a great sequel to my Lonesome Dove collection. I love to watch the whole series in order and this one is a valued addition.

This movie was very good. Not as good as Lonesome Dove but mainly because the actors were not the same ones. I would recommend this movie.

I love the series "lonesome dove" and "return to lonesome dove" did not disappoint. Watching how call fought and escaped from cherokee jack was true to form like how he and gus fought blue duck in the first movie. I was kinda sad to see call and newt have a falling out over newt's since of honor to duggan in which call had drilled into him all those years. But watching newt confront duggan with what call said and newt knew it was the truth because call never lied to him. Also watching call still stuggling with the fact he just couldn't say to newt that he is his father but seeing how much he did love him, newt put his hand out almost saying to him, i know,you don't have to say it. The only thing that would have made it better would be if Tommy Lee Jones had reprised his role as Captain Call. other than that it's a must-see!!!!

Return to Lonesome Dove wasn't based on any of Larry McMurtry's novels, but that turned out to be a good thing in this case. The official sequel, Streets of Laredo, was a terribly depressing read wherein McMurtry seemed to take out his own real-life psychological troubles on his characters. The movie pretty much followed suit. By comparison, Return is a far more satisfying sequel. It's not terribly creative, as a good portion of the movie involves Call driving a herd to Montana again. But what it lacks in originality it makes up for with that familiar Lonesome Dove spirit. It has several key actors from the original (not Tommy Lee Jones, sadly) and even the iconic Basil Paldouris music. And it delivers a much more fulfilling resolution to the stories of both Call and his son Newt in the end.

This DVD is pretty much par for the course with the other releases. Video quality isn't spectacular, but it's much better than when Hallmark crammed the entire mini-series onto one VHS tape. I'm hoping this will eventually come to Blu-ray like Lonesome Dove did. But whatever the format, this is the only Lonesome Dove spinoff I'd wholeheartedly recommend.

The movie is great. Everything about it is quite good. The order arrived when it was promised. I am quite satisfied with the whole experience. Thank you

As good as, if not better than the original Lonesome Dove. Both were great movies,all of the actor's were great,but i would like to have seen more of the original actors, in the return to Lonesome Dove. The ending was quite a surprise.. They are two of my favorites....

WOW!!! The Blu-Ray version will blow you away almost as much as the story.

My wife and I watched the Blu-Ray version for the first time maybe since the original mini-series aired on TV. Definitely one to run through your sound system to get full effect.

The cinematography, the acting, the historic integrity, the sounds. This is one of the most spectacular works on the American West ever made.

The entire Lonesome Dove series is well worth the price and time it takes to watch them. Good, clean, wholesome movies. Only wish more would be made like these.