Do aliens and old people mix well?

 So went and bought this film called Cocoon cos it was on offer - (skint kids these days)

This film is a weird film. Running on the same theme of 80s - with the 'good alien' like in E.T, this sentimental film is a hard one to categorize because it quite silly really. The story doesn't really work, old people and aliens combination - yet the director (Ron Howard: Arrested Development, Rush) does try to win the viewer over by creating a sweet relationship between the phantom like creatures and the old pensioners.

A group of old age men who are all friends find that their disused swimming pool that they attended regularly has been bought by some aliens disguised as humans. The aliens use the swimming pool to keep cocoons alive. However when the old men enter the swimming pool they feel themselves internally gaining a new lease of life and energy. But this has repercussions for the aliens :/ is their spaceship going to come save them? The ending has so much cheese I don't want to spoil it for you so you can relish in the moment when your like 'omg that was just so cheesy' or whatever you say to express that.

Whilst trying to make the story relatable - the director uses clichés which, to be honest doesn't really help the movie - the story of Atlantis really doesn't have to feature in it. What is actually quite sweet is that the boy in the film is Bastian from The Neverending Story! n'aww bless.

so yeah go watch if you want... not really a cult classic. just a bit of a strange film really.

*** from MiloG written by Georgiaa