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20th Century Fox
Cocoon Collection
Journey to the most wonderful place in the universe... home.
The reinvigorated elderly group that left Earth comes back to visit their relatives. Will they all decide to go back to the planet where no one grows old, or will they be tempted to remain on Earth?
Filipe Manuel Neto
Feb 14, 2023 · via TMDB
**Lazy, laying in the shadow of the original film, doesn't have much merit in itself.** Daniel Petrie decided to take a film that was successful and acquired a certain affection and make a poor sequel. I think almost everyone knows that a sequel to a good movie is almost never as good as the original movie... it could be a cliché, but the truth is that it is something so common that it has become something to watch. Besides, for studios, it's a good way to make money without considerable effort or a big capital draw. What this film offers us is, in short, more of the same, but without any charm. The film leans against the shadow of the predecessor's success and peacefully slumbers in the belief that we will like it because we liked the first film. It didn't work for me. The only thing that makes this movie really worthwhile is the fact that it reunites most of its predecessor's cast. It's worth seeing some of the shenanigans of Don Ameche, Wilford Brimey, Maureen Stapleton and Jack Gilford. You can tell they're having a lot of fun with the project, and that the film, even if it's not brilliant, allowed them to revisit characters they enjoyed playing. The movie works reasonably well thanks to this, and the older cast almost have their own separate sub-plot, but the movie loses out by not going beyond that, thanks to a rather weak script. Steve Guttenberg, for example, is even more uninteresting here than he was in the original film, which is really something relevant. Technically, the film doesn't make any major mistakes or flaws, but it isn't particularly brilliant.
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Don Ameche
Art Selwyn
Wilford Brimley
Ben Luckett
Courteney Cox
Sara
Hume Cronyn
Joe Finley
Jack Gilford
Bernie Lefkowitz
Steve Guttenberg
Jack Bonner
Barret Oliver
David
Maureen Stapleton
Mary Luckett
Elaine Stritch
Ruby
Jessica Tandy
Alma Finley
Gwen Verdon
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Tahnee Welch
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Rose
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Bill Wohrman
Coach
Darcy Shean
Woman in Restaurant
Barry Mizerski
Waiter
Mal Jones
Man at Kiosk
Carlos González
SPOI Janitor
Brian Dennehy
Walter (uncredited)
Tak Fujimoto
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Ve Neill
Makeup Artist
Chick Bernhard
Stunts
Daniel Petrie
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David Brown
Producer
Lili Fini Zanuck
Producer
Richard D. Zanuck
Producer
James Horner
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Gary Rydstrom
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Gary Rydstrom
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Richard Hymns
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David Saperstein
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David Saperstein
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