shirley maclaine and a canny actress of unqualified breadth of cleverness and intuitiveness and sheer heart and have say repeatedly she have no idea if a picture be go to work or not work while she make it . yet and certainly the script for this continuation of term of endearment sound an alarm and a it be incredibly dull . writer director robert harling and work from another novel by larry mcmurtry and probably bear most of the blame and but be audience even eager to embrace a follow up to term 13 year later . return to her oscar win role a feisty texan aurora greenway and maclaine can not possibly be expect to have the same chemistry with a new troupe of actor a she have in the first film ( we grow up with those character in the course of the picture and and here everyone be drop on u unceremoniously and with little intro of who who ) . maclaine and play grandmother to her deceased daughter three now grown child and be in full aurora mode and but tellingly the only two sequence that work be the one maclaine share with former co star jack nicholson . otherwise and it a completely uninspired venture that leave one cold . half from .