![[REVIEW] Fly Me To The Moon](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEicJwrmSqUPnToB0emrTRf0dztYWNGYVumgsTWvyhtyG6wekzKK587Go9qaMonPLdY1f194rsMUpcz81AyMua4sUN3NXph4m72XoTZy06-hgKYrxrRubDVP9yT7R2yHjbFVHdAGR1uhutGWZPpraX3AQK4JHWNZk6EHYix8HY1CUZVoUBV2ytYuLqSCjr4=w640-h360-rw "[REVIEW] Fly Me To The Moon")
Fly Me to the Moon is a love story set amidst the 1969 moon landing! Johansson is a marketer & Tatum's a mission director. Conspiracy & romance collide!
The Hollywood comedy Fly Me to the Moon offers a more plausible spin on the belief that the United States faked the moon landing, as 6% of respondents in a poll for C-SPAN for the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission expressed the belief that Neil Armstrong's step was taken on a soundstage. The film folds this cheeky bit of tinfoil conjecture into a modestly appealing, throwback crowd-pleaser, set against the backdrop of the space race. Love, Simon director, and former Arrowverse boss Greg Berlanti communicates with the spirit of a bygone era of star-driven studio confections, reminiscent of a Doris Day vehicle with both moon rock and Rock Hudson in mind.
The film follows the lead-up to Apollo 11 as America's relationship with NASA is ending, and the space program is losing public and Washington support. Kelly Jones (Scarlett Johansson) is recruited by Richard Nixon's right-hand fixer to revamp the egghead operation in Florida. She manipulates a room of sexist automobile executives and has a tragic, Dick Whitman-style secret identity. Johansson's character is slippery, as she is a self-described con woman trying on new accents and personas as needed. The film is refreshing to see Johansson escape the enigmatic steeliness of Marvel action duty with one of her bubbliest star turns.
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Kelly, a NASA scientist, is in a romantic relationship with Cole Davis, a mission director of Apollo 11. Cole is haunted by his complicity in the death of the astronauts who perished in the Apollo 1 mishap. They meet at a local diner and reveal their uneasy new colleagues. Cole is a straight shooter who is disturbed by Kelly's deceptive tactics for selling NASA to a skeptical nation. Channing Tatum plays the role of a romantic leading man, despite spending long stretches irritated with his love interest. Tatum's earnestness and wistful belief in NASA's spirit make him a winning earnestness, putting a handsome face on a country's stargazing ambitions.
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Fly Me to the Moon portrays the relationship between Kelly and Cole as a clash of values, rather than a sex battle. The film highlights Apollo 11, which was both an inspiring push and a victory in the propaganda war with the USSR. The movie's charm lies in its balance of romanticism and cynicism, suggesting both were instrumental to the moon's success. The film also features likable office personalities and after-hours mixers, played by Ray Romano, Donald Elise Watkins, and Noah Robbins. Unlike more serious dramatizations like The Right Stuff and First Man, Fly Me to the Moon centers on the big picture while paradoxically focusing on the smaller matter of human personalities within the NASA machine.
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Fly Me to the Moon is a zippy film with a quirky script by Gilroy, which occasionally uses historical hindsight to make the audience nostalgic. The style of the film, featuring split screens and Motown-scored montages, may leave viewers wanting more from Steven Soderbergh. Despite this, the film has a casual studio sheen that is appreciated in an age lacking handsome Hollywood movies. The characters taking a dusk breath against a Kennedy Space Center backdrop makes it understandable why it was promoted from streaming to theatrical release.
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The movie introduces a high-concept hook where Kelly, under orders from Harrelson's back-channel bigwig, must oversee a simulation of the moon landing. This secret operation, codenamed Project Artemis, should be the comic fuel cell of Fly Me to the Moon. However, director Berlanti minimizes the potential for chaos-on-the-set humor in creating a fake moonwalk parallel to the real one NASA was racing to achieve. The deceptive production is covered via wire-work slapstick and Stanley Kubrick jokes, leaving a missed opportunity for the audience.
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The climax of the movie cleverly weaves together the real wonder of NASA's achievement with rumors that it was a grand illusion. The suspense is cleverly hinging on a shadow operation within the shadow operation, keeping the ball in the stratosphere until the closing minutes. Cole and Kelly spend much of the movie's final stretch apart, communicating long distance à la Houston. A better movie might have merged the screwball complications of Apollo 11 and Project Artemis with the arc of Johansson and Tatum's romance, which never achieves full liftoff. However, the one-time Hail, Caesar! costars generate gravitational charm, and the old-fashioned appeal of attractive movie stars trading quips persists.
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The director of Love, Simon, has released a romantic comedy based on a conspiracy theory about the moon landing. The film pits the mission director of Apollo 11 against a marketing pro who rekindled America's love for NASA. The subplot involving a simulated lunar expedition is not as funny as it could be, but the film is entertaining with its charming plot and the beautiful performances of Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum.
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