COCOON II: THE RETURN
A film review by Jeff Meyer
Copyright 1988 Jeff Meyer
Short description: Not much of a movie, but it make a nice bookend to go with COCOON. Well, everybody comes back from the first movie (*everybody*), and a lot of them think about whether it was a good idea to leave Earth in the first place, and one of the cocoons gets picked up by an oceanographic research institute where Courtney "Assault Dimples" Cox works, and...
Brother, is there a lot of padding in this film. 40 minutes could have been cut out and nobody would have been the wiser. Yes, some of the charm of the original is still there, but it's either strained or canned from COCOON. There are some really ridiculous plot holes running around (especially regarding how security for the alien is handled -- Carl's Rent-A-Cop guarding extra-terrestrials).
Rating: Not actively bad, but not good either.
*Sigh* After the Christmas season so far, I'm having to put all my hopes on THE NAKED GUN... the local radio promos have been hilarious: "LESLIE NIELSON as Virtue Incarnate! PRISCILLA PRESLEY as Lust Personified! RICARDO MONTELBON as Pond Scum in Human Form!" "You've heard the ad... now see the movie! Then buy the silverware."
Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer
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