Comanche Moon-2nd Chapter in the Lonesome Dove Saga (2008)

"...beautifully shot, well acted, and...a worthy addition to the Lonesome Dove canon.  Jonathan Boudreaux, TVDVDReviews.com
"A typically eccentric, enjoyable performance by Val Kilmer...[in a film] Western fanatics...will certainly want to view...  Paul Mavis, DVDTalk

Editor's Note The critically acclaimed miniseries continues with this second chapter in the Lonesome Dove saga. A prequel to the Pulitzer Prize-winning Larry McMurtry novel, LONESOME DOVE, the six-episode series COMANCHE MOON explores the lives and struggles of several Texas men and women in the old west. Steve Zahn stars as Texas ranger Augustus "Gus" McCrae opposite Karl Urban (THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING) as ranger Woodrow F. Call. Rounding out the cast and the drama are Val Kilmer as Yankee Captain Inish Scull, Rachel Griffiths (BROTHERS AND SISTERS) as Scull's unfaithful wife, Linda Cardellini (ER) as Gus's significant other, and Elizabeth Banks (THE 40-YEAR-OLD VIRGIN) as a young prostitute who has a baby by Call. The rangers team up with a collection of interesting characters in order to fight off the Comanche. Their mission revolves around tracking down three outlaws: a Comanche war chief, a Comanche thief, and a Mexican bandit.

	Elizabeth Banks
	Jake Busey
	Karl Urban
	Linda Cardellini
	Ray McKinnon
	Steve Zahn
	Val Kilmer
	Wes Studi
	Alan Caso - Cinematographer
	Dennis Bradford - Art Director
	Diana Ossana - Screenplay
	Larry McMurtry - Screenplay
	Larry McMurtry - Executive Producer
	Larry McMurtry - Based On Novel By
	Lennie Niehaus - Original Music By
	Paul Peters - Production Designer
	Simon Wincer - Director
	Terry Blythe - Editor
	Val Kilmer - Producer

Variety 6 of 10
When the first "Lonesome Dove" struck ratings gold in 1989, CBS joked about multiple spinoffs, including a Saturday-morning show titled "Lonesome Dove Babies." Almost two decades later, such absurdity has nearly come to pass with this tedious, at times cartoonishly bad prequel featuring Steve Zahn and Karl Urban as Gus and Call, the intrepid Texas Rangers first immortalized by Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones, respectively...As prequels go, this is basically "Lonesome Dove: The Middle Years." Adapting his book, Larry McMurtry and partner Diana Ossana (reuniting with "Dove" director Simon Wincer) serve up an oddly structured pile of hash that essentially ends after night two before returning, awkwardly, seven years later. Having not read the book, I can only guess at the plot, which seems wholly irrelevant to the more pressing task of allowing the cast to colorfully chew up chunks of scenery...As a huge Western fan, I get no pleasure in saying that such a large-scale project has gone astray, which -- if "Moon" quickly wanes -- may discourage skittish programmers from returning to the frontier. But with critics, like cowboys, a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do. - Brian Lowry