Fly me to the moon – review

Fly me to the moon – review

“Fly me to the Moon” is a comedy-drama set in the late 60s, questioning the authenticity of the Apollo 19 moon landing. The film follows Kelly Jones, a woman trying to break into NASA’s advertising, and the launch director’s resistance to her presence. The movie offers comical moments and raises questions about integrity and passion.

richiegardiner

July 9, 2024

1–2 minutes

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Fly me to the moon – official trailer

NASA landed an American on the moon or did they?

Did NASA fake the moon landing?

Synopsis

Fly me to the moon is fun comedy-drama based in the late 60’s posing that question in the backdrop of the historic Apollo 19 moon landing.

Starring Scarlett Johnson, Playing Kelly Jones, as a wannabe entrepreneur in advertising kinda faking her way into NASA and is a fun-loving delightful story of intrigue, boldness & way-out cheekiness! NASA needs good publicity and its a fight-off between the launch director Cole Director played by Channing Tatum, who fails to see the need for Kelly Jones – maybe cause she’s a women trying to make it in the 60’s, and is tasked by the White House to create a fake moon-landing back-up, so the countdown begins!

My review

Fun, not laugh-out loud comedy but some fun quips and comical moments, probably the kind of film you need to watch more than once to see them all. I love the NASA black cat which superstitious Cole seems very weary off as this cat drops in pretty much everywhere and that in itself is a good comical feature of the film – definitely watch out for the cat!

Reflective small group questions —

Reality, trust and truth and some questions that could be raised after watching with your youth group:

What does it mean to be integral in work life? Did Kelly have integrity in her job in NASA?

What was the difference between Kelly in her outlook to live with integrity at the start and end?

When we have passion for something, there can be the danger of walking over others to get to where we want to go. How can we both live with integrity and at the same time be motivated with the passion we have for what we want to do?

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richiegardiner

Richie has been working with young people since 1992, in a variety of contexts, and in 2000 graduated from Moorlands College with a BA degree in Applied Theology/Youth & Community work with National accreditation (UK). Since then he has been involved in pioneering youth work as a Youth & Children’s worker in Berkshire, training and mentoring youth workers as a field work tutor for Centre for Youth Ministry, Oxford as well as engaging in local church work. Richie first started out in radio in 2000 with a temporary license and a show on Hope FM in Bournemouth – since then he’s been involved in various project with radio including working with 16 – 25 year olds on a millennium volunteers project in 2002 and from 2006 to 2008 worked as a volunteer for Hospital Radio in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, presenting request shows, breakfast and a Sunday afternoon specialist show. Richie moved to Ireland in the autumn of 2008 to work primarily for Spirit Radio Ireland in as the Operations Support Manager, as well as presenting a regular Saturday show and makes features and contributions to programming.