Made a decade and a half after Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clark unveiled their classic science fiction vision to the world, 2010 actually had quite a muted impact when it debuted in the mid-1980s, and even today has not quite managed to forge much of a reputation for itself: as SFX magazine recently stated, 2001 was created by a cinematic visionary, whilst 2010 was brought to us by the man who helmed Timecop! The film was not a complete disaster, however, and any fan of 2001 (such as myself) would probably aim to buy it, even if only out of completeness. It was with mixed feelings, therefore, that I discovered that a region 2 edition of this film had been ...  Read the complete review

2010 is obviously the sequel to 2001 and are more character orientated movie that pits the Russian's and NASA joining forces to explore the Jupiter monolith. Although not as visually stunning or ground breaking, 2010 answers a lot of the questions left in your mind after seeing the original. And finally we get to closer to the 'Alien's are Amongst Us' story line. It is great to see Hal9000 back in the picture, and even Sal the younger sister of everyone's favourite mad computer. We see Hal's creator who is part of the mission to restart Hal and find out what went wrong the first time. All the while trying to regain contact with Dave, the ...  Read the complete review

To make a sequel to one of the most well-regarded science fiction epics of all time was always going to be difficult. The fact that the task was given to a hack like Peter Hyams was unforgivable, although he made a reasonable job of the movie. The storyline is definately of its time, with a big deal being made of the joint Soviet-American space mission. We see the return of Dave Bowman (played by the usually excellent Keir Dullea) and although Arthur C. Clarke was still involved the movie is somewhat disappointing. I heard a rumour recently that someone is making the film of the 4th book in the series (3001) - whatever happened to the third (2061)?  Read the complete review

This is the end-to-end sequel to the film 2001: A space oddysey. 2001 revolved around a strange object that appears above jupiter and the mission of the crew sent to investigate it. I wasn't the biggest fan of 2001, the end didn't make any sense and the computers actions were never properly explained. As a direct comparison 2010 is a much better film, it follows on from the end of 2001 but recovers the same plot points in a much more logical and believable sense. The plot of the film is that a new crew has been assembled to continue on from the end of 2001. The film excessively focuses it's sub-plot - that the cold war never ended and the crew is a mixture of ...  Read the complete review

I just bought 2001 A Space Odessey, special edition, widescreen DVD. It comes in a nice silver box. It contains a DVD of the movie with very few additional extras (in fact there are none). It does, however, have a CD of the original soundtrack music. This has been specially re-digitised. It sounded pretty hissy to me, and when I read the small print on the enclosed 20 page colour booklet, it states that the music is recorded from the best available sources - I think this means someone went to watch the movie and sneaked a dictaphone in with them. As a major redeeming feature of the special edition, however, you do get a frame from the original movie film...er...well  Read the complete review