In what must be a first, a conspiracy movie about the 1969 Moon landing is the subject of a rom-com.
Fly Me to the Moon stars Scarlett Johansson as Kelly Jones, a go-getting marketing expert who’s enlisted to sell the increasingly expensive Apollo project to the public. She’s up against Cole Davis (Channing Tatum), the NASA director who’s under far too much pressure to deal with Jones’ press antics. Behind the scenes, Moe Berkus (Woody Harrelson) is pressuring Kelly to stage backup footage of the landing in case it fails.
There’s a lot right with Fly Me to the Moon in terms of its production design and a genuine respect and reverence for the subject matter. Sadly, though, it’s written with the subtlety of a bucketwheel excavator. A lot of dialogue exists not to inform character but to remind you it’s 1969 and the stupid, sexist men are meanies and feisty, talented women are waking up and taking charge. In the end, though, the lady’s social aptitude pretties things up and gets the house in order sufficiently to get the hunkiest man’s enormous rocket up and the two live happily ever after. To give it credit, it does portray a subtler view of a religious character than Hollywood can generally muster; there’s some actual nuance at times.
The plot surrounding the faked landing is mildly interesting in premise, but feels oddly like a prelude to some upcoming real-life revelation from the NASA archives. The execution is also broad enough to be irritating, with a stereotypically flouncing auteur performance by Jim Rash as the director conscripted by the CIA to shoot the backup footage. Johansson and Tatum comport themselves well by comparison and make a likeable couple even if they lack any explosive chemistry.
Fly Me to the Moon is not a bad movie, but it’s full of annoying gristle you’ll have to chew through to get to the meat. In terms of light entertainment, it’s sufficiently well made to enjoy without feeling ripped off.
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