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Genres:
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Animation /
Adventure /
Family
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Release:
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Director:
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Ben Stassen
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Actors:
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David Gore,
Sandy Simpson,
Sophie Simpson,
Tim Curry,
Robert Patrick,
Kelly Ripa,
Buzz Aldrin,
Trevor Gagnon,
Philip Bolden,
Nicollette Sheridan,
Ed Begley Jr.,
Christopher Lloyd,
Adrienne Barbeau,
Cam Clarke,
Grant George,
Steve Kramer,
Mimi Maynard,
Scott Menville,
Lorraine Nicholson,
Gigi Perreau,
Doug Stone,
Neil Armstrong
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Duration:
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84 min.
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Rating:
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(4.8/10)33
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Plot Summary:
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In the Kennedy days, all the States drone about the Apollo moon program, even the bugs. Grandpa pitch keeps 'inspiring' his grandson and two mates, a nerd and a greedy-guts, with eminent stories. Redone they decide to move in on the action at Peninsula Canaveral via an astronaut's bred confine. Grandpa also gets involved. There's also an awful Soviet Russian run to with.
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Fly Me to the Moon
John AndersonParents can rest easy: For those tots convinced by Fly Me to the Moon that three talking houseflies stowed away on Apollo 11 and saved the moon mission from certain disaster, Buzz Aldrin himself appears at the end of this 3-D animated adventure to straighten them out. It???s a bizarre moment in a film whose sense of humor is more antique than its 1969 setting. Timing might otherwise be golden, though, as the off-the-wall adventure/comedy is poised to fill the kid-fare vacuum between Wall-E and Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa. Otherwise, it???s a wingless exercise, despite a rather heartening attitude toward space travel that will introduce young auds to the glory that was NASA in the ???60s. Setting things up via mock-dated, black-and-white animated newscl...
Fly Me to the Moon
Ben Stassen's animated 3D feature for children offers a fly-on-the-wall account of the first lunar landing
"Uh, Houston, we seem to have a small problem."
In fact, the loose wire that Neil Armstrong has just detected in Apollo 11's circuitry is not the only fly in the ointment of his now famous moontrip. There is also a trio of 'real' young American houseflies on board who have hitched a ride in the hope of becoming the first insects on the lunar surface - and there are three additional Russian fly operatives down at Houston mission control, determined to sabotage any American success.
No amount of zero gravity can quite hold off the weight of influence bearing down on this film either. Not only does it recreate what is arguably television's most unifying moment, t...
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