Fly Me to the Moon 3D (2008)
"Fly Me to the Moon" (original title)

Three young houseflies stow away aboard the Apollo 11 flight to the moon.

Director:

Ben Stassen

Writer:

Domonic Paris

Stars:

Christopher Lloyd, Trevor Gagnon, Philip Bolden

1 win & 2 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Christopher Lloyd	...	Amos (voice)
Kelly Ripa	...	Nat's Mom (voice)
Nicollette Sheridan	...	Nadia (voice)
Tim Curry	...	Yegor (voice)
Trevor Gagnon	...	Nat (voice)
Philip Bolden	...	I.Q. (voice)
David Gore	...	Scooter (voice)
Ed Begley Jr.	...	Poopchev (voice)
Adrienne Barbeau	...	Scooter's Mom (voice)
Robert Patrick	...	Louie (voice)
Buzz Aldrin	...	Himself
Sandy Simpson	...	Commander Armstrong (voice)
Eddie Frierson	...	Commander Aldrin (voice)
David Cowgill	...	Commander Collins (voice)
Steve Kramer	...	Leonide (voice)

Storyline

In the Kennedy days, all the States buzz about the Apollo moon program, even the bugs. Grandpa fly keeps 'inspiring' his grandson and two mates, a nerd and a glutton, with heroic stories. New they decide to get in on the action at Cape Canaveral via an astronaut's bred box. Grandpa also gets involved. There's also an evil Soviet Russian fly to with.

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Plot Keywords:

moon | fly | 3 dimensional | animal | 1960s | 

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Taglines:

First ever animated movie created for 3D

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Genres:

Animation | Adventure | Family

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Certificate:

G

Details

Official Sites:

MK2 [fr] Official site

Country:

Belgium USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

15 August 2008 (USA)

Also Known As:

Fly Me to the Moon 3D

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$25,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

£311,791 (UK) (3 October 2008)

Gross:

$14,532,946 (USA) (16 October 2009)

Company Credits

Production Co:

nWave Pictures, Illuminata Pictures, Le Tax Shelter du Gouvernement Fédéral de Belgique

Technical Specs

Runtime:

84 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.44 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

In the scene where the flies are in the lunchbox, and being placed in the car, the license plate reads "FMTT - Moon" or "Fly Me To The Moon", the movie's name.

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Goofs

At 1:05:25, Yegor flies into an opening in the console to sabotage the equipment. The door to the opening reads "Authorized Personal ONLY". However, this is grammatically incorrect; it should read "Authorized Personnel ONLY"

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Connections

Featured in Siskel & Ebert: Episode dated 16 August 2008 (2008)

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Soundtracks

"Going Up The Country"
Composed by Alan Wilson
Performed by Canned Heat
Courtesy of EMI Music Services Belgium NV

User Reviews

I've Seen Better G-Rated Movies

It's a movie for kids. I understand that. I watched it with my 6 year old and she liked it, so I'll cut it a bit of slack - and in any event you can't apply the same standards to a kids movie that you would apply to a movie intended for mature audiences. Having said that ...

I've seen G-rated movies that were a lot better than this. The attempt here is to mix a story about 3 young flies who hitch a ride to the moon with Apollo 11 in 1969 in with a bit of the actual story of Apollo 11. So if a child watches this they'll learn about Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin and even a bit about the Cold War. Nothing wrong with that. Some of the animation (especially some of the space flight scenes, the animated portrayal of the capsule and the scenery backdrops) was very well done. But set against all that are the weaknesses of the movie.

First, I didn't care for either the animated people or the animated flies. The flies came across as too anthropomorphic. I know nobody wants to see realistic-looking flies and maggots in a cartoon, but these ones came across as just too cutesy. These are flies! And strangely, with the flies being too anthropomorphic, the animated humans came across as too cartoonish. They didn't look realistic at all. The Cold War - as I noted - serves as a backdrop to this (appropriately, since the Cold War was the backdrop to the actual times) but having flies involved in the Cold War? Yes, there were the evil Russian flies and the good American flies. That was a little too much. And then there was Buzz Aldrin's real-life walk on at the end of the movie. I can't really figure out what purpose his walk-on served. It seemed a gigantic piece of nothing, and lasted all of about 30 seconds. I have nothing against cute kids movies. I've rated more than a few quite highly. This one, though, is not one of the better I've seen.