Film: Fly Me to the Moon
Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Channing Tatum, Woody Harrelson, Jim Rash, Ray Romano, Nick Dillenburg, Anna Garcia, Noah Robbins
Director: Greg Berlanti
Rating: 2.5/5
Runtime: 132 min.

‘Fly Me to the Moon’ has bankable stars and a great concept for a romcom but the resultant is not exactly laughter inducing.

It’s the late 60’s. Kelly Jones (Scarlett Johansson), a successful ad executive gets plucked from a Manhattan agency by a shadowy government figure (Woody Harrelson), to sell the space program to the disinterested American people already beleaguered by the Vietnam war. Her task gets difficult because Apollo 11 Launch Director Cole Davis (Channing Tatum) will have none of it. A brilliant pilot who should have been an astronaut himself, he remains consumed by the tragedy that befell Apollo 1 and is unable to shelve the guilt associated with that crash. Jones’ PR initiatives meant to fix NASA’s public image, wreaks havoc on Davis’ already difficult task of putting a man on the moon. Then the White House, wanting to put USA ahead of the Russians in space exploration, deems the mission too important to fail and Jones is directed to stage a fake moon landing as backup.