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Bob Balaban, Helen Mirren, John Lithgow

A joint American-Soviet space mission sets off to uncover the mystery of the Discovery ship that was sabotaged by HAL, the computer, in the earlier film.

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PG, 1 hr. 56 min.

Directed by: Peter Hyams

Release Date: December 7, 1984

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DVD Release Date: August 25, 1998

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  • SirPant
    September 7, 2009
    SirPant
    2010 stays true to the book but could never compete with Kubrick's masterpiece. Don't overlook it though as its full of suspense and intrigue and is a brilliant film!
  • sononothing
    September 15, 2008
    sononothing
    You can't start a review of 2010 without referring to Kubrick's masterpiece 2001. What Kubrick created with that film was create an opera with the stars, polishing the story by Arthur Clarke and giving us a film that's a feast for the senses and in typically Kubrick fashion leave...( read more)s us with more questions than answers when the closing credits roll.

    What 2010 does is try to explain what happened to Discovery in the nine years since HAL seemed to go mad and Dave Bowman disappeared. The world is on the brink of destruction between the United States and the Soviet Union (you have to remember this is 1984), but there is one moment of cooperation between the two countries when there is interest to investigate the monolith and the Discovery by the Soviets. The Soviets can get there faster, but the U.S. knows the systems better. The standard Rocky IV "us vs. them" mentality begins as the crew featuring Roy Scheider, John Lithgow, and Helen Mirren revive HAL and try to discover what happened near Jupiter nine years before.

    The first thing you need to do when watching this film is to distance yourself from Kubrick's vision in 2001. You will be disappointed and feel negative from the opening credits. Look at this film as a sequel to Clarke's story (which Clarke wrote, along with several sequels). The film explains things while leaving others still under a veil of mystery. I've always been an opponent to explaining every aspect of a film with its sequel, but with 2010 it seems less like a crutch than with other films that have done this (I'm looking at you Halloween II).

    2010 is a solid sci-fi tale with some breathtaking effects (even though the dreaded black boxes appear in some shots). It's only crime is that it was a follow up to 2001 and, to be perfectly honest, there is no follow up to that film.
  • jplong39
    July 6, 2008
    jplong39
    entertaining without the profundity
  • shortcartoonist
    September 27, 2007
    shortcartoonist
    Entertainment without intrigue, 2010: The Year We Make Contact is a much more traditional insight into science fiction and a much more basic interpretation of Clarke's novels. Never trying to mimic or outdo the integrity and marvel of '2001: A Space Odyssey', the film makes its o...( read more)wn claims in it's own rights - it is much more accessible and acts as a decent fanfare from the predecessor. Yet, due to the film's conventionalities, it merely acts as it's own sole interpretation of the endless ambiguities layed by it's father in film.

    While the underlying themes and notions of 2010 seem to merely recapitulate what has been delivered before, it manages to bring it's own weight to the fore through solidifying concepts. The film's lack of open-ended insight strays far from the universe created initially, but the backlash from delusional fans is unjust. 2010 acts as a fitting enough film to continue in this provocative series. It respects it's initiator enough to not intervene with it's status and respects it's source material enough to act as a bridge to the novel.

    ...more soon.
  • wellmeetagain
    August 1, 2007
    wellmeetagain
    okay, totally different than 2001.
  • totalefreiheit
    November 17, 2009
    totalefreiheit
    Muy buena segunda parte. Me gusto mas que la primera.
  • Yelverton
    November 8, 2009
    Yelverton
    Stupid copycat of an even stupider film, with an even stupidierer ending. Yeah, it's stupid.
  • liam174
    October 10, 2009
    liam174
    Why would they try making a sequel of 2001, possibly the film most impervious to a sequel.
  • pantasia
    October 3, 2009
    pantasia
    looks good, but i dont base it on ACTUALLY going to happen.. When its time to go, no one will know
  • GreenGoblin92
    September 29, 2009
    GreenGoblin92
    As weird as the first one.

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