How does cocoon end

The central weakness of "Cocoon: the Return" is that the film lacks any compelling reason to exist. Yes, it is a heartwarming film.

For someone who has seen "Cocoon," the sequel gives you the opportunity to see everybody saying goodbye for the second time. Steve Guttenberg , as the skipper who fell in love with an alien being Tahnee Welch in the previous movie, is still chugging around on his glass-bottom boat, casting winsome glances at the sky.

In the bedroom of one of the local Little Leaguers, a strange event takes place. The kid tries to turn off his TV set, but the screen remains bright - and then suddenly he sees his grandfather Wilford Brimley , one of the old-timers who disappeared into space.

Coming back for a visit, Gramps says. While an alien team sets about recovering one of their kidnapped fellows, we see a series of reunions with the human travelers and those they left behind.

In the process, all of the same problems, questions and dilemmas that concerned the characters in the first movie are taken out and dusted off again.

For example, which is better: to live forever on another world, or get sick and die on this one, but at least get to see your grandson playing baseball? To see the familiar sunsets over the tacky but comfortable retirement villages of the Florida coast, or live forever in a silver city beneath three alien moons? Dying now would be a permanent solution to a temporary problem. Don Ameche wants to get back on the spaceship, for example, because to his wonderment he and his middle-aged wife Gwen Verdon are expecting a baby, and he wants to live long enough to see the child grow up.

Jessica Tandy , on the other hand, would rather stay here on Earth and take a job as a teacher in a day-care center - "the first job anybody has ever offered me. There also is a subplot involving the kidnapped alien, who has fun at first with his captors, but was "awakened" too soon and begins to pine away and die.

Also, of course, there is another opportunity for Guttenberg and Welch to share the strange experience of "merging," which not only passes for sex on the other planet, but replaces it - with no complaints, by all accounts. Old people in the movies usually are ignored or, if present at all, employed as comic relief when one of them, typically an old lady played by Ruth Gordon, utters an obscenity. The special pleasure of ''Cocoon,'' an otherwise wholly derivative science-fiction film, is that it offers us images of retirement age characters acting their age, which means that their bodies may creak occasionally but their minds have not lost their fire.

In ''Cocoon,'' a retirement home full of old folks is placed in contact with alien creatures who will wind up offering them an alternative to their current social insecurity.

But oddly enough, the finale of this movie, ripped off from ''Close Encounters of the Third Kind,'' is the least interesting element of the film. More entertaining are the early moments when three of the retired men played by Don Ameche, Wilford Brimley and Hume Cronyn happen upon a swimming pool full of bolder-like pods that contain an extraterrestrial lifeforce.

The pool has been charged with energy that turns it into a veritable fountain of youth, and the whoops and hollerings and splashing that follow is a joy to behold.

Also pleasurable, in a lower key, is the way that the men discuss their new found youth with the women in their lives including Maureen Stapleton and Jessica Tandy. Cinemark Coming Soon. Regal Coming Soon. By opting to have your ticket verified for this movie, you are allowing us to check the email address associated with your Rotten Tomatoes account against an email address associated with a Fandango ticket purchase for the same movie.

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