Cocoon

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Rich S Let's get old together, folks! I waited 40 years to see this Academy Award-winning film. It was worth the wait and yet I don't regret waiting so long to see it. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 09/27/24 Full Review Joseph C Cocoon is one of the best mainstream science fiction flicks of the 1980s. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 06/20/24 Full Review R B You probably have to be elderly to fully appreciate this film. While it is an interesting story, I think it is one of the more overrated films of the 1980's. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 08/27/23 Full Review sarah h Cocoon is awesome! One of the best non-serious scifi movies of it's day. I loved seeing all the classic black and white actors again. They've all died now, and we have this cute little ditty to remember them by. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 07/07/23 Full Review Torin F COCOON's fun-loving elderly cast and location setting makes for a really engaging and enjoyable first half. The movie fatally falters, however, with absurd plotting (the aliens' invitation after their apparent loss) that turns the film into a clumsy, sentimental analogy for the promise of the afterlife. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 06/19/23 Full Review Taylor L I'm so confused. I spent so many years thinking that Cocoon was a horror movie, sort of like Invasion of the Body Snatchers but with Wilford Brimley. That is 100% not what this movie is. Though the film has plenty of lighthearted moments (there's lots of friendly dolphins, and it's from 1985, so there had to be a montage in there somewhere), Cocoon is an unusual but oddly tender exploration of aging. The twilight years are really ever only explored two ways in film - you've either got some sort of tortured drama about the ravages of time and missed opportunities (think Anthony Hopkins in The Father) or an uplifiting we're-not-dead-yet bit of hopium (something like The Bucket List or if you're a middle-aged mom, Mamma Mia!). Precious few films explore the elderly or their problems as actual characters, and while Cocoon does have an alien made of light wandering around in a bathrobe, it also gives some sincere thought to what it means to be elderly, with a mind that longs for days past and a body that won't cooperate. There are actual characters at play here, and while the sci-fi stylings and effects are on the weaker side, at its core Cocoon is an interesting drama that shines a light on a period in life that movies - as a means of escapism - would typically rather ignore. We're just not going to talk about how these old guys were swimming in a pool that was supposed to have been abandoned for three years. Mosquitoes and malaria galore. (3/5) Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 12/11/22 Full Review Read all reviews

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