Despite some astonishing visual sequences, a flimsy script and frankly awful character design ground this film before it can blast off.
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10/03/08
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Fly Me To The Moon (2008)
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Reviews Counted: 63
Fresh: 11
Rotten:52
Average Rating: 3.7/10
Consensus: Flatly animated and indifferently scripted, Fly Me To the Moon offers little for audiences not comprised of very young children.
Genre: Childrens
Theatrical Release: Aug 15, 2008 Limited
Box Office: $11,636,668
Synopsis: In this groundbreaking 3-D animated adventure, three young flies set off on a courageous mission to become the first insects on the moon by hitching a ride on the historic Apollo 11 space flight. Based on the actual transcripts and the... [More]
Starring: Christopher Lloyd, Tim Curry, Nicollette Sheridan, Robert Patrick Benedict
Director: Ben Stassen
Reviews for Fly Me To The Moon
Without the special effects, this would be a routine and occasionally dull adventure, but the 3D animation is simply astonishing and the film is worth seeing for that alone.
10/03/08
The result is only just worth 90 minutes of anybody’s time, and has Buzz Aldrin appearing at the end to assure everyone that none of it was remotely possible. Surprise, surprise!
10/03/08
This 3D animation about a trio of pesky houseflies hitching a ride on Apollo 11 will give you a buzz only if you've missed the last 15 years of superior animations.
10/03/08
If 3D is going to make a giant leap, it requires a more exciting movie than this.
10/03/08
Cheap and cheerless, it all resembles a supermarket own-brand version of similar but much superior fare such as A Bug’s Life, making you wish for a plague of spiders to put them out of their – and our – misery.
10/03/08
This witless 3D animated feature tries its best but never achieves lift-off.
10/03/08
Yet there's still enough to hold the attention - the actual Apollo equipment has the ring of authenticity - and it's worth taking the trip just to gawp at the sheer beauty of the programmer's art.
10/03/08
No matter how superficially amusing the title or how appealing the animated characters (not very, to be honest), the fact remains that we are expected to empathise with flies. The animators even try to make maggots cute.
10/03/08
And while it may not teach sprogs anything about insects – these ones have human eyes and four limbs – director Ben Stassen has made a fair fist of portraying the Apollo mission with some accuracy.
10/03/08
Believe the bad buzz on this houseflies-become-astronauts CG animation, which is lousy with lazy jokes and irritating characters.
10/03/08
Few would claim there are no flies on this one, but at least the outstanding 3D effects are some compensation for the dumbed-down inanity of everything else.
09/26/08
3-D has yet to shake its cheese factor, though, to the credit of director Ben Stassen, an Imax movie pioneer, the new digital process often works with popcorn-dropping effect.
09/19/08
Fly Me to the Moon is the first animated feature made specifically for the 3-D format. If this were not the case, it would have gone straight to DVD. Everything else about it is as lazy and dull as the latest cheap Pixar knockoff.
08/22/08
The story is inoffensively wholesome, and there may be enough goofy antics to engage young, indiscriminate viewers, but the level of creativity in the animation is serviceable at best.
08/21/08
Fly Me to the Moon bills itself as the first animated feature created expressly for 3-D. Too bad it wasn’t created expressly for, you know, pleasure or art.
08/19/08
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Top Critic The idiotic story and low-rent animation will bore children to tears.
08/15/08
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