Fly Me To The Moon Review

If there were any suspicion that the Apollo 11 moon landing had been thoroughly exhausted cinematically: think again. For what it’s worth, Greg Berlanti’s breezy space comedy at least offers a fresh revisionist perspective. Here, advertising whizz Kelly Jones (Scarlett Johansson) is plucked from her cushy New York job and tasked with giving the underfunded NASA a much-needed PR boost in the run-up to that fateful mission. But that promising premise is squandered by a knotty plot that makes the film more complicated than it needed to be.

There’s a fun workplace romcom somewhere in Fly Me To The Moon. Kelly’s gung-ho approach to public relations comes up against the more practical-minded launch director Cole Davis (Channing Tatum), whose exasperation grows as Kelly wrangles Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins for Omega watch sponsorships and cereal adverts…

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