Cocoon: The Return Movie Review

“Cocoon: the Rerun,” as old timers who left with aliens last time revisit Earth and basically go through the same stuff all over again. Filmmakers desperately push familiar emotional buttons in search of the fragile magic of Ron Howard's original. You may find yourself fast-forwarding to the f/x or away from the schmaltz.

1988 (PG) 116m/C Don Ameche, Wilford Brimley, Steve Guttenberg, Maureen Stapleton, Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy, Gwen Verdon, Jack Gilford, Tahnee Welch, Courteney Cox, Brian Dennehy, Barret Oliver; D: Daniel Petrie; W: Stephen McPherson; C: Tak Fujimoto; M: James Horner. VHS, Beta, LV FOX