Fly Me to the Moon [WS] [3D Anaglyph/2D] [With 3D Glasses]

Overview

Christopher Lloyd, Kelly Ripa, Nicollette Sheridan, and Tim Curry lend their voices to director Ben Stassen's (Haunted Castle and Encounter in the Third Dimension) animatedchildren's fantasy about three preteen flies who hitch a ride into space on the Apollo 11 moon mission. The year is 1969, and Americans all across the country are buzzing about the first manned mission to the moon. Even the insects aren't immune to the excitement, as evidenced by the enthusiasm of adolescent flies Nat (voice of Trevor Gagnon), IQ (voice of Philip Daniel Bolden), and Scooter (voice of David Gore). Over the years, Nat's grandpa (voice of Lloyd) has often recalled the time he hitched a ride on Amelia Earhart's airplane during the famed aviator's cross-Atlantic flight, and now Nat's dreams of recreating that feat on a much larger scale are finally set to come true. But while the three young flies only believe that they'll be gone for a few minutes, the fact is that they'll be drifting through space for almost an entire week. Just as they're about to sneak aboard the ship, the flies are spotted by a keen-eyed NASA ground control official and stored in a test tube for future study. Later in the flight, when the ship's engine malfunctions, the only ones capable of fixing the problem are the three tiny stowaways. But their mission isn't accomplished just yet, because grandpa's old flame Nadia (voice of Sheridan) has just arrived from Russia to warn him that a tiny fly-spy named Yegor (voice of Curry) has been assigned the task of traveling to Cape Canaveral and sabotaging the computer flight plans. Should Nat, IQ, and Scooter fail to act in time, Yegor's mission could spell disaster not only for the three thrill-seeking flies, but the entire U.S. space program.

Product Details

Release Date:	12/02/2008
UPC:	0025192000171
Original Release:	2008
Rating:	G
Source:	LIONSGATE - 600000-AEC LGE
Region Code:	1
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	1:25:00
Sales rank:	45,681

Special Features

Interactive Planetarium Game - Great For Kids of all ages!; Includes both 2D and 3D versions of the film!

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Trevor Gagnon	Nat
Philip Daniel Bolden	IQ,Actor
David Gore	Scooter
Christopher Lloyd	Grandpa
Kelly Ripa	Nat's Mom
Nicollette Sheridan	Nadia
Ed Begley Jr.	Poopchev
Cam Clarke	Ray
Adrienne Barbeau	Scooter's Mom
Mimi Maynard	IQ's Mom
Scott Manville	Butch
Tim Curry	Yegor
Robert Patrick	Louie
Buzz Aldrin	Buzz Aldrin
Grant George	Voices
Sandy Simpson	Commander Armstrong
Eddie Frierson	Commander Aldrin
David Cowgill	Commander Collins
Steve Kramer	Leonid
Lloyd Scher	Mission Control 1969
Phil Proctor	Senior Official
Nicholas Guest	Fly Buddy #1
Archie Hahn III	Fly Buddy #2
Manville Zager	Butch
Lyannanne Zager	Fly at Launch
Michael McConnahie	American Newscaster
Doug Stone	Russian Newscaster
Max Burkholder	Mom's Maggot
Mona Marshall	Maggot #2
Barbara Goodson	Maggot #3
Toby Stone	Mosquito
James Frederick	Horsefly #1
Jeffrey Braer	Horsefly #2
Greg Berger	Pale Russian Flies
Sophie Simpson	Katie
Lorraine Nicholson	Polly
Auguste Paris	Kid Fly at the Party
Michael Consuelos	"Party Mold" Kid Fly
Dirk Brosse	Conductor
Ramin Djawadi	Composer

Technical Credits

Domonic Paris

Ben Stassen	Director,Executive Producer
Domonic Paris	Screenwriter,Executive Producer
Caroline Van Iseghem	Producer
Charlotte Clay Huggins	Producer
Gina Gallo	Producer
Gina Gallo Paris	Producer,Casting
Jeremy Burdek	Executive Producer
Nadia Khamlichi	Executive Producer
Mimi Maynard	Casting,Producer
Adrian Politowski	Executive Producer
Eric Dillens	Executive Producer
Pierre Lebecque	Sound Editor
Lele	Sound/Sound Designer
Lucy Thomas	Sound Editor
Yves Renard	Sound Editor,Sound/Sound Designer

Editorial Reviews

Digital photorealism is rarely so convincing as it is in the kids movie Fly Me to the Moon. The details of the Apollo 11 spacecraft seem so real, so minute, and so tactile, it's almost as though NASA handed over their schematics to the Belgian filmmaking team. However, the fact that it's a kids movie creates an abrupt visual dichotomy, as most of Fly Me to the Moon's characters are cutesy little googly-eyed flies, voiced by actors under age 12. Their character design gives them the feel of having escaped from Saturday-morning cartoons, like someone stuck a child's sticker on a photograph hanging at Cape Canaveral. It's not enough to sink the picture, but it does make one wonder what Pixar would have done with similar material. Fly Me to the Moon also loses something in two-dimensional form, which is likely how most viewers will see it, as the film was designed specifically as a 3-D viewing experience. It's hard to give Fly Me to the Moon either a confident recommendation or a confident dismissal. With what it does right, it inspires awe, and the notion of three prepubescent flies hitching a ride aboard a spacecraft is the perfect fodder for an animated adventure (never mind where they got their miniature space suits). On the other hand, there's an incredibly silly plot about Russian flies trying to win the space race by sabotaging Apollo 11's reentry, which culminates in a duel between American and Russian flies inside a console at Cape Canaveral. To say an animated movie has something for both the kids and their parents is a cliché, but usually that means that the same material is germane to both demographics. Here, there's no meeting point, and the film suffers.