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Fly Me to the Moon (2008)

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Average rating: 50%
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2.5
from 17 members
 
Starring: Kelly Ripa, Christopher Lloyd, Nicollette Sheridan, Tim Curry, Ed Begley Jr., Adrienne Barbeau, Robert Patrick, Trevor Gagnon, Philip Daniel Bolden, David Gore
Director: Ben Stassen
Studio: MOMENTUM PICTURES
Run time: 90 mins
Certificate: U
Genres: Animated
Languages: English
Released: 26/01/2009

Showing in 4 cinemas

Brief synopsis of Fly Me to the Moon

The year is 1969 and like everyone else in the world, Nat and his pals IQ and Scooter are abuzz over the upcoming launch of the first manned mission to the moon. Inspired by his Grandpa's oft-told tale of hiding aboard Amelia Earhart's plane during her famed solo cross-Atlantic flight, Nat hatches a secret plan for the three young flies to stow away on the Apollo 11 rocket. The hard part is keeping the plan secret from his mom, Mrs. McFly! When a N.A.S.A. Ground Control official catches sight of the three winged stowaways, he instructs the astronauts to store them in a test tube for later study. But after an electrical short causes the ship's engine to malfunction, the three intrepid insects manage to escape from their glass mini-brig just in time to discover the wiring problem and fix it. After a difficult lunar landing, Nat tags along with Neil Armstrong on his legendary moon walk. Although the flies face a few more close calls, the mission appears to be a success. At least until Grandpa's old flame Nadia arrives from Russia to warn him that her government, angry over losing the space race, has dispatched fly-spy Yegor to Cape Canaveral to sabotage the computer flight plans. With the Apollo hurtling toward Earth, it falls to Nat's family to save the mission--and the trio of brave flies--from disaster.

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Rating of 2 stars out of 5 Derek Adams, Time Out

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Rated - 5 starssuperb........................

williamsgwynfa [Highly rated reviewer] , 30/09/2008

this dvd is superb. A preteen-aged fly named Nat ( played by Nat Gagnon), and his two best friends, I.Q. (played by Philip Daniel Bolden) and Scooter (played by David Gore), build a “fly-sized” rocket in a field across from Cape Canaveral, Florida, where the Apollo 11 sits on its launch pad.

From his earliest memory, Nat remembers his grandfather, Amos (played by Christopher Lloyd), telling him of his daring rescue of Amelia Earhart as she crossed the Atlantic Ocean on her historic flight.

Wanting to be an adventurer like his Grandpa, Nat knows what he has to do.

Defying the notion that “Dreamers get swatted!” he tells his friends his plan to get aboard the Apollo 11 and go to the moon.

His buddies, with some reluctance, are in.

The next morning, as their families realize they are missing, the three flies make it to Space Centre command.

In their homemade space suits, Nat, I.Q. and Scooter stow away inside the space helmets of astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins.

As they blast off, our three tiny adventurers are about to make some history of their own.

Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins all appear as themselves. This is a superb film, that is well worth watching !!!!!!!!

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Rated - 2 starsGood.. but waaayyyy to American

PaulaWestwood from Ashton-Under-Lyne [Highly rated reviewer] , 21/10/2008

Despite being essentially a kiddie flick, this has much too much a thick layer of good old US syrup and bluster, and an overbearing old hat attitude towards outsider technology and peoples, the decade old pastiche of Russian dictators etc, just made me gag. Ok children might not get this but they will have a good sticky dose of the good old Yew Ess Ay gettin to the moon before anyone else being the best etc etc. I totally love the USA and US technology (both flying to the moon and Amelia Erhardt flying over the Atlantic as shown over and over) was fantastic and did lead to new frontiers being breached, but sticking animated fly's and adding a few lame gags doesnt make this any less of a pretty average animated childrens film. Could have been treally good, but for me was definately overtaken by its all too silly message. Worth a miss, try your kids with more light entertainment such as Horton Hears a Hoo or B-Movie or if you want some sort of a message - Wall-E !, Fly me to the Moon isnt in their league.

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