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Fly Me to the Moon
Summit Entertainment

Fly Me to the Moon reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 36 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
1.4 out of 10
based on 21 reviews
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MPAA RATING: G

Starring Nicolette Sheridan, Tim Curry, Christopher Lloyd, Robert Patrick, Kelly Ripa, Adrienne Barbeau, Ed Begley Jr., and Buzz Aldrin

Fly Me to the Moon is the story of how three ordinary flies, NAT, I.Q. and SCOOTER managed to sneak aboard the Apollo 11 and forever changed the course of history! Not to mention, gain heroic confidence, overcome a few death-defying challenges and just maybe put an end to the notion that "dreamers get swatted." (Summit Entertainment)


GENRE(S): Adventure  |  Animation  |  Family/Kids  
WRITTEN BY: Domonic Paris  
DIRECTED BY: Ben Stassen  
RELEASE DATE: DVD: December 2, 2008 
Theatrical: August 15, 2008 
RUNNING TIME: 84 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: Belgium 

What The Critics Said

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

75
San Francisco Chronicle Walter Addiego
Will probably pass muster with very young viewers, but their parents may grit their teeth at its saccharine quality.
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67
Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
Brisk and sweet, even if the script veers toward fussy and lame.
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63
Boston Globe Ty Burr
Fly Me to the Moon is a crummy movie for kids, yet it still holds out the prospect of past wonders and future marvels. It's one small step for a housefly, one giant leap for 3-D.
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63
New York Post Linda Stasi
The animation IS great and absolutely so fantastic you'll want to reach out and touch the creatures - or swat them off your uncomfortable 3-D glasses.
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58
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Paula Nechak
Would be totally unexceptional if not for its visual telling of the Apollo 11 flight and the fact that the movie is impressively shot - the first animated feature film in 3-D.
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50
Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea
The script appears to have been designed, created and produced entirely in 1-D: a mishmash of kidcentric antics, follow-your-dream cliches, and innocuously icky humor.
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50
The Hollywood Reporter Michael Rechtshaffen
An awkward mix of proficient 3-D animation, detailed technical recreation and strained storytelling that stalls on takeoff.
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50
Variety John Anderson
It’s a wingless exercise, despite a rather heartening attitude toward space travel that will introduce young auds to the glory that was NASA in the '60s.
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50
Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez
What saves Fly Me to the Moon from being a total wash is the actual mission itself.
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50
Washington Post Michael O'Sullivan
Despite some Cold War humor, the formulaic film is aimed squarely at the youngest of young children.
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50
Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach
Go to enjoy the technical expertise, and take a first-grader (and not a particularly savvy one) along to find something of value in everything else.
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40
Los Angeles Times Michael Ordona
This oddly paced kids' entertainment displays flashes of intelligence -- then misspells terms on NASA control panels.
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40
Village Voice Ed Gonzalez
This sketchily conceived and executed space yarn is one missed opportunity after another.
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38
The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Stephen Cole
All of this is interesting, but not all that entertaining.
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30
The New York Times Nathan Lee
One of the most undermotivated plots in many a moon, the zero-wit, zero-gravity misadventures of Nat, I.Q. and Scooter are embarked on merely because they're bored on their garbage dump.
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30
Chicago Reader Andrea Gronvall
The little heroes and their families are surprisingly ugly, with faces resembling skulls, and the colors are so faded and muddy the movie feels tired and bungled.
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25
Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips
The vocal characterizations aren't the problem here; the script and the animation are the problems, and in feature animation, you can't arrange more significant problems than those.
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25
The Onion (A.V. Club) Tasha Robinson
The film still suffers from cheap plasticky design, a klutzy overall look, dim preschooler humor, and a nearly impact-free story that thinks it's clever when it steals cues from 2001.
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25
USA Today Claudia Puig
A tribute to a giant leap for mankind feels like a clumsy shuffle backward for animation.
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20
Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
Adding to weirdness is a tacked-on, live-action appearance from the real Aldrin, who reassures kids and terrified X-Files fans that there weren't, in fact, any houseflies on board Apollo 11.
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20
New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
Forgive us for being demanding, but shouldn't an animated kids movie like this one be, at the very least, fun? Cute? Watchable?
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What Our Users Said

Vote Now!The average user rating for this movie is 1.4 (out of 10) based on 12 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Arielle F. gave it a1:
Hollywood should just stop making G rated animated movies. Period.

ed ed gave it a0:
This film has no redeeming qualities... at all. I took my 7 and 9 year olds to see it, and it was their very first experience of walk-out before the film was done.

Ian H. gave it a0:
My mom made me take my little brother to go see it the day after it came out. Horrible movie. Period.

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