Cocoon: #TakeMeToYourDealer

One of the first things I noticed when researching this review was the IMDB pages for the actors being all black and white, headshots from another time at the beginning of the film industry. This whole film felt like an end of an era. The classical and big bang music. The great american 1950s soda pop and diners. It’s all about the elderly on their last hurrah fulfilling the fountain of youth dream, mixed with so many cringe worthy lines like, “want a piece of candy little girl?” Ugh.

All that said, this whole story isn’t unique to those living out their final years. We all need community, a sense of belonging, and purpose. Combine that with the ability to feel great for the first time in decades…I mean, who wouldn’t be excited about these new aliens coming to Earth? If there are coming of age movies, like Super 8, what are these called. End of age?

Interesting to see the smattering of call outs to previous Alien films before 1980, like “Face eating“ and ” Taking over my body”. Love seeing the historical nature of these films take place. Reminded me of K-Pax and They Live’s plot with aliens integrating to the world, undetected and in small numbers using the “skin” of a human.

Overall, I did like this movie, partially because I remember watching this with my parents growing up. There is more suspension of disbelief than I would like, with major plot lines like “life force” and what happened “100 centuries ago”, let alone how they go to Earth. Cool ideas about culture differences though.

P. S. The only way I could find to watch this was to buy the DVD on Amazon. So weird.