liamforeman Alright so TOE is one of my favorite movies of all time. I read Evening Star as soon as it came out. I was a little hesitant to see that they were making the sequel. Maybe because I am secretly clairvoyant because this movie is a MESS. Oh my God, where do I start? Well, the beauty of TOE was that it covered the lives of Emma and Aurora since she was in the crib through her adolescence and adulthood until her untimely death. We grew to know the characters and love them or not. Well in ES, it's just a mishmash of several plots over the course of at most several months (!!!). Also the casting was strange. Juliette Lewis was awful but she was high on heroin the whole time so that would explain her awful performance. Marion Ross as Rosie was miscast. And where the HELL is Lisa Hart Carroll as Patsy??? Instead we get Miranda Richardson who was just terrible and SOOO not Patsy.I put most of the blame for this mess on Robert Harling. He had a hit with Steel Magnolias, and he obviously is in love with the idea of a tearjerker. However, this screenplay is so overloaded with excess drama and attempts to bring a tear that you end up feeling used and angry. He totally changed the screenplay from the actual book.I could go on and on and on about how awful this movie was, but I'll spare you. I suppose if I'd never grown up on TOE this movie might not make me so angry. But then they should have had a different actress play Aurora and just a whole new cast, which they basically did anyway. If you loved TOE, do NOT see this. I'd give it a one out of ten.

MovieAddict2016 I don't understand the point of this movie. "Terms of Endearment" already did all this - and it was better. What's the point of bringing Shirley MacLaine back almost fifteen years later? The original audience of the first film are much older by then and younger girls don't give a damn because they weren't around when the original was released. Do you see a point? Neither do I. Perhaps that's why it flopped when it came out.MacLaine returns to her role and basically this movie is just her life and we get an update on how she's living. Juliette Lewis and Bill Paxton get little to do - Lewis is annoying as usual and frankly I wouldn't mind if she just stopped acting permanently tomorrow.The best thing about this film has to be Jack's cameo appearance as Garrett. It almost saves a failing movie - but once he leaves it all falls apart again.

katrinamcguinness What a piece of crap, very disappointing should never have been made. Where are the original actors there's no jeff Daniels, no Danny DE Vito, the character of patsy was slim and pretty and smart and sophisticated in the first film but now shes replaced by some heavier actress who just acts dumb all the way through. Terms of endearment was one of the best films i ever saw but this one makes it look really bad. Too long and drawn out and what a shame that all the children turned out bad and that there father isn't in the picture. In the first he seemed to be there a lot but, how can he just never see them again after his wife dies how does that happen.

towelie2002 As I said in the comment box above, this is better than the original, which was Terms Of Endearment (1983). A lot of people think that this is inferior to the original. But this, unlike most sequels, brings much more insight into the characters and everything else in the story, and is more interesting. Rosie only had 2 scenes in the original, but is in most of this! This is continuing the story of Aurora Greenway (Shirley MacLaine) in her latter years. After the death of her daughter Emma, Aurora struggled to keep her family together, but has one grandson named Tommy (George Horton) in jail who hates her, a rebellious granddaughter named Melanie (Juliette Lewis) who moves to Los Angeles with her unfaithful boyfriend Bruce (Scott Wolf), and another grandson named Teddy (Mackenzie Astin) living just above the poverty line. Aurora's maid Rosie (Marion Ross) tricks Aurora to see a psychiatrist named Jerry (Bill Paxton), who's 40-something years her junior. As their relationship builds, her friends are getting concerned about it and her dead daughter's friend Patsy (Miranda Richardson) decides to ruin it.As I said before, this film brings much more insight than the original. You get to realize how much of the tragedy of this 1st film is Patsy's fault, since she `corrupted' Emma and Aurora, after many years of knowing each other, finally confronts her about it, which I guess brings some justice to Aurora. Juliette Lewis gives a good performance (as always) in this film. If you liked her work here, then you'll love her work in Natural Born Killers (1994). Even Jack Nicholson's small role in this (which is only about 10 minutes) is nice to see. And you get to know towards the later part of the film how the `Aurora Greenway Saga' ends. If you're a fan of the original, then you should watch this, but just like the original, it's not a great film, but worth watching.Rating: 3/5