Cocoon (1985) Reviews & Ratings

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Cocoon reviews

Cocoon holds a 6.6/10 average from 1,479 TMDB ratings.

_**Discovering the "fountain of youth"**_ On the surface "Cocoon" (1985) is about elderly folks at a retirement home in Florida unknowingly finding the "fountain of youth" via a pool on an adjacent property. A peculiar group of people rent the property to store boulder-like objects they take from the bottom of the ocean. As such, the pool acquires healing powers and restore's the old folk's youthful vigor. Steve Gut…
— Wuchak (8/10)

**It deserves to be remembered nowadays.** I think the 80's were, maybe, the golden age of alien movies. Between comedies or horror films, the quality is quite satisfactory and there is plenty to choose from. This film is, however, one of the least known, perhaps due to the light way in which everything was approached, and it has even fallen into unfair oblivion today. For me, it was a movie that worked better preci…
— Filipe Manuel Neto (6/10)

When a group of trespassing seniors swim in a pool containing alien cocoons, they find themselves energized with youthful vigor.

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