Cocoon: The Return

However, this is James Horner and he is not one to ignore good material from an original and so much of the music from the original returns, or so I am told. It is for the most part a quiet and gentle score, making it the ideal music to relax to. Don't relax too much though, as there are some great big-band jazz tracks. Taking Bernie to the Beach and Basketball Swing are the tow longest portions. They are set very much in the Glenn Miller mould and I wouldn't be too surprised if there are a couple of almost direct lifts from Miller's music. The jazz also has the strange distinction of sounding a little like the theme to Victoria Wood's program on BBC television, which comes as a bit of a surprise. Anyway, for someone who really doesn't like jazz on the whole, I thoroughly enjoyed this score although perhaps the softer moments did seem to drag at times. The final track is the only non-jazz more moving track and is great fun although there are some horribly obvious direct lifts from Star Trek II and the like. The Ascension is a beautiful cue that swells, before becoming soft and with a little jazz to cap it off, ends a good example of a quiet James Horner score, albeit it not quite as good as the original and certainly it lacks some of the variety of its predecessor.