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List Price: $25.99 | | Label: Summit Entertainment
Salesrank: 50961
Released: December 2, 2008 |
| Our Price: $17.90 |
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MPAA Rating: G (General Audience)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Genre: Family
Rating: G
Release Date: 2-DEC-2008
Media Type: DVD
Description of Fly Me to the Moon (2D Version):
A digital 3D presentation that wows viewers with striking 3D effects, Fly Me to the Moon is a retelling of the 1969 Apollo 11 landing on the moon from the perspective of three young flies that allegedly hitched a ride on the historic flight. Nat, IQ, and Scooter live by the credo "If it's not an adventure, it's not worth doing," so when the three flies get a chance to sneak aboard the space shuttle for a ride to the moon, all systems are definitely go. While Grandpa McFly and Nat's young maggot siblings applaud the boys' adventuresome spirits, their mothers stereotypically swoon and fret over their safety. The flies encounter several unanticipated twists including the trip's week-long duration, a short in the ship's circuitry, a Russian fly plot to sabotage their mission, and their mid-flight imprisonment in a test tube. Nonetheless, the flies manage to enjoy the experience of weightlessness with an in-space ballet interpretation of "Blue Danube" as well as an orange juice feeding frenzy. Fly Me to the Moon will likely spark new interest in space exploration and the United States' walk on the moon, especially in today's children, and the filmmakers made a concerted effort to present fairly accurate historical details consistent with NASA's notes on the historic flight. There's even an afterword from real astronaut Buzz Aldrin in which he stresses the impossibility of the existence of flies or other contaminants aboard the historic space shuttle. Fly Me to the Moon is fun entertainment for the whole family as well as an eye-catching display of digital 3D technology. (Ages 4 and older) --Tami Horiuchi
Fly Me to the Moon (2D Version) Reviews:
Great Childrens Movie 
2009-12-13 - Great Movie! Our church did a free movie night as an outreach to the community and everyone was extremely pleased. The movie has excellent 3D effects and a great story that was interesting for adults as well as the children. The one DVD has both the 3D and the normal video mode which is also very helpful. Enjoy!
Fun for children and adults. 
2009-10-24 - My grandson likes for me to watch cartoons with him and this dvd was interesting for both of us.
Really cute movie!
2009-08-23 - What a fun movie! I think I enjoyed this as much as the kids did. Seems to be historically accurate regarding the moon landing of 1969 while being extremely entertaining.
Horrible 
2009-07-30 - We got this movie for our little girl and hoped it would be good for adults. It was neither.
First off the animations would have been amazing had they come out 20 years ago. By today's standards they were terrible. The movement was clunky, stiff, and not fluid at all. The facial animations while a little better were not better by much.
Along with the animations, the lack of detail for the characters was just as bad and made the poor animations look that much worse. Unlike any other good cartoons like Pixar movies and Shrek, never once did I feel in awe of the picture.
To add insult to injury, the movie abused the 3D effects as much as they possibly could. It was as if each screen was intended not to tell the story or advance the plot but rather to freak out the audience using the 3D features. Not only is this lame but it absolutely ruins the movie when NOT watching it in 3D. It was almost like being on a cheap ride at a theme park at points.
Story was as bad as the rest. It was not interesting, believable, or entertaining. Now kids movies do not have to be believable but at the very least should have some shred of truth to it. Not this movie. Nor did the challenges really make sense or engage me as a viewer. I guess this movie was geared towards small children but then again my daughter hated it too.
Characters were bad too. None had any real depth and never gave you much of a reason to care about any of them.
Overall I wish I could have given it less stars. It was almost as if they said hey lets just make a movie about being 3D and then fill in the other details later. I would only recommend this movie to somebody that is in need for punishment.
INTERESTING STORY, BUT GENERIC CHARACTERS AND AWFUL 3-D ON THE DVD RELEASE, KEEP THIS ONE FROM REALLY TAKING OFF! 
2009-06-22 - I watched this film in both 3-D and 2-D on the DVD release to compare the two versions. The 2-D version looks very good and although the animation might not match that of Wall E, it is very solid. If only the characters had a little more umm?......character!
The fly's design is a cross between the Smurfs and some discarded character designs from 'A Bug's Life'. The voice work is nothing special either. The story is interesting and overall is a fairly enjoyable film experience, but it just isn't up to the likes of Pixar's efforts.
What is most disappointing is the 3-D version on the DVD. The color is almost non-existent and what color is there is completely off. The Maggot babies are lime green where as in the 2 D version they're pink-ish. If fact most anything with color is lime green and the rest looks like a black and white film or the color is so subtle you have to strain to see what color it is...... it's too distracting and it looks awful!
Also, there is the typical double vision effect which wouldn't be so bad if the color was right. I also feel that two cheap sets of 3-D glasses are not enough to include with the DVD. I mean really?... how much could these things cost? If you want to watch the 3-D version with you kids, you'll have to take turns!?? They should have included at least four pair of glasses and why not six? If your going to advertise 3-D on the cover then make it so the whole family can watch it together.
