This sequel was not needed, no one clamored for it, but the first one did quite well (76 million in 1985) so they just had to try to milk this franchise for another go. Though I hesitate to call this a franchise, more like a nice little first film and a very unneeded sequel that destroys everything in the first one. So the old gang is back to once again help their alien friends get those cocoons. What have they done in the time they have been gone you ask? Well do not ask, you get nothing about the aliens and their way of life. You do get to see that a one week trip back to earth makes them very cranky very quickly. You also get to find out on of them is pregnant, how wonderfully creepy. I mean seeing them act young and stuff in the first one was good and all, but this is a step or two to far. Then you have your very awkward scene of the girl that liked Steve Guttenberg in the first one not able to control herself in a crowded restaurant. So the highly advance race of aliens can not even control themselves in public? I mean she is not only acting very badly, she is exposing herself as an alien to a crowded room. Just a sequel that should not have been, I hate the ending with some of the elders staying to be with their daughter and grandson, then I guess they get to die and considering these aliens that live forever, most likely no god in this universe so they get to be worm food, but hey the grandson will have gotten to know his grandparents and attended their funeral. Such fun to be had here.
Review of Cocoon: The Return
