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  • Actors: Roy Scheider, John Lithgow, Helen Mirren, Bob Balaban, Keir Dullea
  • Directors: Peter Hyams
  • Writers: Peter Hyams, Arthur C. Clarke
  • Producers: Peter Hyams, Jonathan A. Zimbert, Neil A. Machlis
  • Format: Dubbed, PAL, Widescreen
  • Language English, Russian
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: PG
  • Studio: Warner Home Video
  • DVD Release Date: 11 Sep 2000
  • Run Time: 111 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00004R84H
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 2,413 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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No director could ever have hoped to repeat the artistic achievement of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, and nobody knew that better than Peter Hyams, who made this much more conventional film from the first of three sequel novels by Arthur C Clarke. Whereas Kubrick made a poetic film of mind-expanding ideas and metaphysical mysteries, Hyams shouldn't be blamed for taking a more practical, crowd-pleasing approach. In revealing much of what Kubrick deliberately left unexplained, 2010 lacks the enigmatic awe of its predecessor, but it's still a riveting tale of space exploration and extraterrestrial contact, beginning when a joint American-Soviet mission embarks to determine the cause of failure of the derelict spaceship Discovery. Having arrived at Discovery near the planet Jupiter, the American mission leader (Roy Scheider) and his Russian counterpart (Helen Mirren) must investigate the apparent failure of the ship's infamous onboard computer, HAL 9000, as well as the meaning of countless mysterious black monoliths amassing on Jupiter's surface (an interpretation Kubrick originally left up to his viewers). Meanwhile, Earth is on the brink of nuclear war, and an apparition of astronaut David Bowman (Keir Dullea) appears repeatedly to promise that "something wonderful" is about to happen. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com


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2.35 Wide Screen
DVD 9
French\Italian
English\Italian
English
Region 2
Dolby Digital 5.1 English French Italian
Dolby Digital 5.1
Interactive Menu
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Arabic\Bulgarian\Dutch\English\French\German\Italian\Portuguese\Romanian\Spanish
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28 of 34 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Dated but interesting, 27 Jun 2006
By Tim Bentley (Shetland, UK) - See all my reviews
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"2010: The Year We Make Contact" is a fine representation of the second of Arthur C Clarke's Odyssey books. The production is a product of its time though with the Soviet Union still very much in existence and antagonism between East and West very much still alive. I don't believe that the movie suffers too much because of that specifically, more for the title I think - 2010 is a little too close to now and the combined space programmes of every country are too far off the technology for any realism.

Some good performances, John Lithgow as Walter Curnow for one and Bob Balaban as Dr Chandra are worthy of note. The Russian accents are pretty ropey despite a number of Russian actors, and Roy Scheider is a little wooden - take particular note of his fake laugh early in the movie whilst checking Discovery's orbit.

Not a bad movie, and while the movie is widescreen, the version I got was letterbox rather than anamorphic 16:9. Sound passable but uninspired and unexciting during the aerobraking manoeuver.

I'm not disappointed that I bought the movie as it is worth the pittance I paid for it. I would have liked anamorphic widescreen, DTS and a decent crop of DVD extras - then I would have given four stars rather than three (or the two and a half it is really worth!).
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18 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars 2010 the year we make contact, 30 Nov 2002
By Paul Mason (England.) - See all my reviews
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As a standalone SF film 2010 is good. As a follow up to 2001 it is a pale shadow of Kubrik's film, events at the end ot the twentith century show it to be a film of the cold war erra, it is workman like to its forbears stunning sweep from pre-history to a vision of mankinds imagened future. 2010 picks up the story of Dave Boweman,Hal and co and follows them to neat conclusion.
The story is well told and filmed,the efects support the story rather than being the story,as I said at the start; not a great film but a good film, and all the better for being on DVD.
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13 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars My god, it's full of stars! Helen Mirren, Roy Scheider..., 14 Mar 2000
By Ben Elliss (Reading, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 2010 [1984] [VHS] (VHS Tape)
Peter Hyams takes the reins from the late great Stanley Kubrick in this adaptation of Arthur C Clarke's second 2000-series novel. Following the disappearance of Dave Bowman (reborn as a spectral space-child at the end of 2001), the apparent abandoning of the USS Discovery and the malfunction of the computer HAL, a joint Soviet-Western team is sent up to Jupiter to investigate the old spacecraft - while Dave Bowman begins to make his presence felt back on Earth. This sequel is far less surreal than the first film, but it has its fair share of great moments. The spacecrew reenact the Cold War on their voyage to Jupiter, and we meet an updated female version of the HAL-9000: SAL, who has a strangely intimate relationship with her nerdy creator. And the plot is far more comprehensible than the first film, which is no bad thing! Highly recommended for sci-fi buffs.
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4.0 out of 5 stars From out of 2001's shadow comes a brilliant, but very different, sci-fi film
2010 is a very, very different film from 2001: A Space Odyssey. In 2001, the first twenty minutes are completely devoid of dialogue; in 2010, the first twenty minutes are packed... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Mr. Stuart Bruce

4.0 out of 5 stars Better than 2001
This film is dated simply by having the USSR in it but the story is still a good one, as it is based on a book and not writtan as it was filmed as 2001 was. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Mr. R. S. Hutton Mckee

4.0 out of 5 stars 2010 The Year We Make Contact (My View)
If you have seen 2001 A Space Odyssey and was a little puzzled by the meaning behind the film then this sequel explains more about it. Read more
Published 4 months ago by C. Chappell

5.0 out of 5 stars Not long now, or that wasn't that long ago.
This film is superior in everyway to the laughable 2001. The story is stronger and more believable and with a handy encapsulated condensing of the story from the first film... Read more
Published 5 months ago by Ramsey Tupper RIP

4.0 out of 5 stars 2010 - making sense of 2001
This movie is underrated, having had to fill the big shoes of the 2001 mega hit. But, it manages to make sense of a plot that I'm not sure even Kubrik understood completely. Read more
Published 9 months ago by KE Buddenbrock

5.0 out of 5 stars Top notch sci-fi
I really enjoyed this. Everything makes sense and the ending is really dramatic, much more so than 2001's imo, which just left me confused and thinking: thank god for that. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Matt

5.0 out of 5 stars Great To See This Classic on DVD
For those who were entranced by Stanley Kubrick's iconic classic "2001" but were confused with the ending - i.e. Read more
Published 16 months ago by John Joyce

1.0 out of 5 stars This film is worth 0 stars
This is the worst film I have seen (at least for a great many years). The script is peurile and the plot weak, apparently constructed to give the special effects boys a chance to... Read more
Published 19 months ago by Anthony Davis

3.0 out of 5 stars rest of the remake
This is the rest of the remake of Assignment: Outer Space. See my comments in 2001: Space Odyssey.
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5.0 out of 5 stars 2010: The Year Someone Wrote A Proper Ending!
2001 finished on a cliffhanger. Or did it? I don't even have a clue how to describe the ending. Anyway the good news is that as soon as 2010 came on we can tell from the first... Read more
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