Kelly Ripa

One Giant Leap Backward for 3-D Animation

MOVIE REVIEW
Fly Me to the Moon (2008)

033armstrongnat
Summit Entertainment

"Fly Me to the Moon" functions less as a movie than a 3-D demo reel. It exhibits all the latest in multidimensional effects, but forgets to tell a story to accompany them. For most of the film, Domonic Paris’s screenplay lifts wholesale from the actual transcripts of the Apollo 11 space flight. The production only departs from a simplified retelling of that tale in the narrative’s adoption of the perspective of three adolescent flies who have stowed away on the spaceship.

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