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Capture the Flag

Original title: Atrapa la bandera
  • 2015
  • PG
  • 1h 34m
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5.8/10
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Capture the Flag (2015)
A ruthless billionaire bent on exploiting the source of Helium 3, the clean energy of the future, hatches a plan to rewrite history and excise the feats of the Apollo XI astronauts and the Moon landing. Enter headstrong 12-year-old surfer, Mike Goldwing, who along with his friends, a small lizard with delusions of Godzilla-like grandeur, and his grandfather, travels to the Moon to thwart evil.
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A young surfer rallies his friends to stop a billionaire from rewriting history as a way to hoard Helium 3, the clean energy of the future.A young surfer rallies his friends to stop a billionaire from rewriting history as a way to hoard Helium 3, the clean energy of the future.A young surfer rallies his friends to stop a billionaire from rewriting history as a way to hoard Helium 3, the clean energy of the future.

  • Director
    • Enrique Gato
  • Writers
    • Jordi Gasull
    • Javier López Barreira
    • Neil Landau
  • Stars
    • Sam Fink
    • Dani Rovira
    • Michelle Jenner
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  • IMDb RATING
    5.8/10
    4K
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    • Director
      • Enrique Gato
    • Writers
      • Jordi Gasull
      • Javier López Barreira
      • Neil Landau
    • Stars
      • Sam Fink
      • Dani Rovira
      • Michelle Jenner
    • 14User reviews
    • 42Critic reviews
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    • Awards
      • 4 wins & 2 nominations

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    Sam Fink
    Sam Fink
    • Richard Carson
    • (English version)
    • (voice)
    Dani Rovira
    Dani Rovira
    • Richard Carson
    • (voice)
    Michelle Jenner
    Michelle Jenner
    • Amy González
    • (voice)
    Carme Calvell
    • Mike Goldwing
    • (voice)
    Javier Balas
    • Marty Farr
    • (voice)
    Camilo García
    • Frank Goldwing
    • (voice)
    Toni Mora
    • Scott Goldwing
    • (voice)
    Marta Barbará
    • Samantha Goldwing
    • (voice)
    Fernando Cabrera
    • Steve Gigs
    • (voice)
    Xavier Casan
    • Bill Gags
    • (voice)
    Oriol Tarragó
    • Igor
    • (voice)
    Ramon Canals
    • Jack Farr
    • (voice)
    Jordi Royo
    • Jay Lemmon
    • (voice)
    Margarita Cavero
    • Tess
    • (voice)
    Alba Sola
    • Presidenta
    • (voice)
    Juan Miguel Valdivieso
    • Patrullero 1
    • (voice)
    Santi Lorenz
    • Patrullero 2
    • (voice)
    Carlos Sianes
    • José
    • (voice)
    • …
    • Director
      • Enrique Gato
    • Writers
      • Jordi Gasull
      • Javier López Barreira
      • Neil Landau
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    • Trivia
      NASA astronauts Alan Bean and Miguel López-Alegría are technical advisors. Bean was the fourth man to walk on the moon with Apollo XII's voyage in November, 1969. Alegría was the first Spanish astronaut to travel outer space.
    • Goofs
      The entire movie is founded on a fallacy: All six flags planted on the Moon by the Apollo astronauts have been bleached pure white by the intense solar radiation on the lunar surface. There are no US flags planted on the Moon today.
    • Quotes

      Frank Goldwing: [on seeing his grandson and Amy accidentally lock lips] Just friends... right?

    • Crazy credits
      Still images of the events that happen after the end are shown during the first half of the end credits.
    • Connections
      Featured in Starfilm (2017)
    • Soundtracks
      I'll Reach You (Te Sigo)
      Written by Tony Sánchez-Ohlsson, Ander Pérez Nemowave

      Performed by Auryn

      Courtesy of Warner Music Spain

    User reviews14

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    3/10
    OK for kids but instantly forgettable
    For every Inside Out there are a hundred Capture the Flag's. Considering the absurd amount of time and effort an animation feature takes to produce it's surprising that so often such little effort is made with the script and character development. Where animation masterminds Pixar really excel, putting technology aside for one moment, is how perfectly they make you connect with their characters, and this is no more obvious than when you watch a film where this simply doesn't happen. Home failed miserably with a great cast simply because all of the characters were so utterly annoying, Big Hero 6 an example of the contrary. The Incredibles 2 and Toy Story 4 are both out in the next few years and people (adults and children) care, and there's a reason for that.

    A great commercial animation should be judged on its ability to fascinate the kids, gratify the parents yet produce something that is more than a kids film which gratifies the parents; a movie that stands on its own as an objective piece of work, not something that qualifies as a two hour cheapo Saturday morning outing for dads. Capture the Flag is a perfect example of the type of tripe that will saturate the throwaway Sunday one pound a seat mini-mornings across the UK multiplexes for months to come.

    The film focuses on the Goldwing family; grandad Frank who missed out on his one chance to land on the moon, his son Scott, a potential astronaut on the ever pushed-back NASA missions and Mike, the youngster trying to reconcile his dad and grandad who haven't spoken for years for reasons initially unknown. A naughty billionaire, Richard Carson, attempts to discredit the initial moon landings as a diversion to his plans to mine Helium-3 from the satellite as an endeavour at super-villainy world energy control, and thus it quickly becomes super villain versus the Goldwings. There is potential for some good story lines here yet the film concentrates purely on silly action sequences and the child action- buck rather than anything remotely interesting.

    The film does try and engage its older audience at times, specifically with a clip of the not-dead Stanley Kubrick, working for Carson, directing a faked moon landing, but that's about it. The storyline is disjointed and rushed, and at no point feels like one you care about the outcome of.

    The other annoyance is that some of the main characters are so visually similar to characters from other films; Carson is almost identical in mannerisms and looks to Syndrome from the Incredibles, Frank Goldwing is basically Professor Callaghan from Big Hero 6 and Mike Goldwing's young sister is a lazily recreated version of Boo from Monsters Inc. It may seem fastidious to point out such similarities but it enhances the feeling of indolent character development that is such a persistent irritation throughout.

    Sometimes it feels harsh critiquing a film that is so obviously a throwaway movie directed at keeping kids vaguely amused for ninety minutes, but for all that Capture the Flag is a dull incidental movie that no-one will ever remotely remember.
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    • Mar 7, 2016

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    • Release date
      • August 28, 2015 (Spain)
    • Countries of origin
      • Spain
      • United States
    • Languages
      • Spanish
      • Catalan
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Una familia espacial
    • Filming locations
      • Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain(Location)
    • Production companies
      • Paramount Animation
      • 4 Cats Pictures
      • Ikiru Films
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    • Budget
      • €12,500,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $6,690
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $6,690
      • Dec 6, 2015
    • Gross worldwide
      • $24,604,331
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 34 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Datasat
      • Dolby Atmos
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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