I am loving this new Real D, it's sooo cool! It was a cute movie- but nothing spectacular. I found they didn't use the 3D as well as they could have, I was expecting it to be as entertaining in 3D as "Journey to the Center of the Earth" was, but this one wasn't as in your face.
Terrible. Shitty script with subtle propaganda aimed towards kids involving American nationalism, topped with really bad jokes like "Oh my Lord of the Flies!"
Honestly, I did have a feeling from the trailer that Fly Me to the Moon wasn't going to exactly my style. But I had the opportunity to see it today for free and I just wanted to give it a fair chance, I don't know what's with this year, but it doesn't seem like all the animated films are gold, now we had WALL-E and Kung Fu Panda, that's about it when it comes to the good animated films, but then we had Space Chimps and now Fly Me to the Moon that are just average. See, what bugs me is that this movie is just for kids, I think we should have those kind of films, but this was semi-boring. The humor didn't even seem to exist, also flies are not cute or interesting to watch and just because a film is made for 3-D doesn't make it a great film. I'm not trying to hate on this film because the story is decent, it's just the way it's told that makes it a little dull.
Nat, I.Q., and Scooter are young flies who are just day dreamers, but Nat dreams of going to the moon one of these days. When he talks to his adventurous grandfather, he decides to just go for it. He talks I.Q. and Scoother into it as well, they sneak onto the rocket ship that is taking Americans to the moon for the first time. But with the mothers freaking out at home and Russian flies who can't stand the idea of these American flies getting the credit, it may not be a happy trip home.
Fly Me to the Moon is alright for the kids under 7, that's it. Like I said, I think we should have movies that are aimed for kids only, but this was just dull and didn't interest me. The humor is very tame and the characters aren't the best to relate too. There are a couple of nice things about the movie, like the animation is beautiful and the story is fun. Even though 3-D doesn't make a movie wonderful, it does make it a lot of fun to watch and a lot more interesting to look at. Over all, I'd say to see this as a matinée if you want to see it on the 3-D screen, otherwise, it's a rental, there's nothing special about it, but it's a nice movie.
This movie feels like it's made my amateur 3-d artists, with a script written by an amateur. Whether that's the case or not I don't know, and that doesn't mean that amateur = bad. I'm not making a negative comment here, I'm just saying: Don't expect Pixar or DreamWorks Animation. You won't find any of Shrek's clever wit and site gags, or the amazingly diverse characters of A Bug's Live.
The animation was sluggish, the flies didn't look like flies in the least, the one-liners are weak, and the plot is fairly contrived. The world-from-insect-POV has been so well covered by AntZ, A Bug's Life and The Bee Movie that it seems the writers couldn't think of any more gags that haven't already been used.
However it is well worth taking your 4-year old, as I did. Why? Because if your 4-year old is a fan of space, this movie documents the entire Apollo moon-landing in easy-to-understand visuals with some very nice Saturn V sequences. It even referenced the Soviet space-race context of the mission. I was impressed by the LEM model itself. It's almost as though the movie began as a documentary for Kindergarteners on how we landed on the moon, and a plot involving cartoon flies was inserted to carry short attention spans better. Awkwardly, Buzz Aldrin himself makes an announcement at the end of the movie to say that "no flies" were really on the Apollo 11 mission. (Were they really that concerned young minds would assume flies did accompany the astronauts to the moon?) So I rank it a 4 just for the Apollo 11 sequences and a 2 for the plot and animation alone, averaging out to a 3. But my opinion doesn't count anyway -- the movie was made for a very young audience, and my 4-year old enjoyed it very much.
Billed as the first fully computer animated movie made in 3-D, it tells the story of three flies that stowaway on board Apollo 11's historic flight to the moon. That's the whole plot. If that were the whole focus of the movie, they couldv'e pulled off a fun little movie. Unfortunately things get bogged down with too many extra characters and subplots involving Russian flies that try to sabotage the mission back at ground control on Earth. That gets in the way of a genuienly fun little adventure about the other flies and their journey to outer space. It's as if the filmmakers realized that the movie they made wasn't long enough for theatrical release, and went back and shot a bunch of filler material. There's a good 60 minute movie here, stretched out to 90 minutes. Of course the whole gimmick of the movie is the 3-D factor. The earthbound scenes contain the typical "comin' at ya" shots, including a flies point of view as he zips through fields, junkyards, etc. But I give the movie an extra half star because the 3-D scenes involving the space mission are quite remarkable, and provide a "you are there" feel that isn't possible in a 2-D feature. But since the movie was made for digital 3-D theaters, it's obvious it will be in 3-D on video. My advice...wait for it.
Not as good as I thought it would be. Boring in spots but very cute in others. Not very funny though and really probably for little kids only. 3D was fun in spots.
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