Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1672 in DVD
• Released on: 2000-09-11
• Rating: Parental Guidance
• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Dubbed, PAL, Widescreen
• Original language: English, Russian
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 111 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
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

Special Features
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
Scene Access
Arabic\Bulgarian\Dutch\English\French\German\Italian\Portuguese\Romanian\Spanish

Synopsis
A team of American and Soviet astronauts travel in search of the lost ship "Discovery" as Cold War strife boils over back on Earth. A breathtaking if far less allegorical sequel to the sci-fi classic 2001 A SPACE ODYSSEY. Academy Award Nominations: 5.

Customer Reviews

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. why would an alien civisation go to the bother of leaving giant domino blocks all over the universe? - 2010 will come as a great relief.

Featuring a solid cast of characters led by Roy Schnieder and Helen Mirren, this well-plotted and beautifully realised film maintains its pace throughout and reunites us with one of the most endearing non-human film characters in SF history - the HAL 9000 computer.

Special effects are stunning, but not overwhelming and the plot (this time) makes perfect sense. Great for a relaxing evening in over a bottle of wine or a wet afternoon.

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 see what they could do. Admittedly I am no sci-fi buff but I think you'd have to be a space film fanatic to watch this more than once. I gave up half way and threw the disc into the waste bin. If Arthur C. Clarke were alive today he'd be turning in his grave.

rest of the remake
This is the rest of the remake of Assignment: Outer Space. See my comments in 2001: Space Odyssey.