"Fly Me To The Moon" tells the story of the Apollo 11 moon landing mission through the eyes of flies who sneak aboard for the adventure of a lifetime. It is a strange dichotomy as the fly characters are really cartoony and seem to be geared to a very young audience, but the moon mission itself is portrayed very realistically with great attention to detail. Visually, it is an amazing movie to watch and I can only imagine how much better it looked in IMAX 3D (I did see a preview of the movie a while back in 3D, which did look great). The attempt to make this story work on those two levels did not really work for me. The cartoony flies were not really entertaining enough to keep the older audience interested, so by the time the Apollo 11 mission begins, you have sort of lost interest. For the younger set, I'm not sure the goal of educating them about this historic landing hit its mark. Before the credits roll, they even have Buzz Aldrin himself appear to explain to kids that there weren't really flies on Apollo 11! I do like the thought of framing these historic events in a fashion that kids might enjoy, but I think this attempt did not quite hit the mark. Since I was really into the Apollo missions when I was a kid, I did enjoy the amazing recreation of all of the space footage and the moon walk itself. It was an amazing animation job. Bottom line: the movie was really just "OK".Grade: C-
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