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Topic:	nWave Pictures' "Fly Me To The Moon"

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Your Reply: HTML is ON UBB Code is ON Smilies Legend	[QUOTE]Originally posted by Robert Pearlman: [B]A good number of reviews are out now: [list][][URL=http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/custom/today/bal-to.moon15aug15,0,729288.story]'Fly Me to the Moon': mission impossible[/URL] [i]Baltimore Sun[/i] [][URL=http://www.cleveland.com/movies/index.ssf/2008/08/animated_3d_flick_fly_me_to_th.html]Animated 3-D flick 'Fly Me to the Moon' looks good, lacks story[/URL] [i]Plain Dealer[/i] [][URL=http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/AP/story/642056.html]Movie Review: 'Fly Me to the Moon'[/URL] [i]McClatchy Newspapers[/i] [][URL=http://www.nj.com/movies/ledger/index.ssf?/base/entertainment-1/121877494965900.xml&coll=1]Buggy lunar flight should be aborted[/URL] [i]Newark (NJ) Star Ledger[/i] [][URL=http://www.nypost.com/seven/08152008/entertainment/movies/3_d_art_soars__but_lunar_toon_plot_wont__124497.htm]3-D Art Soars, But Lunar 'Toon Plot Won't Fly[/URL] [i]New York Post[/i] []<a href="http://www.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment/movies/orl-db-moviereviews-searchresults,0,3279701,results.formprofile?Lib=turbine_cdb_lib%3Aresult_doc_id+result_doc_rank+docu%2 0ment_id+cdb_num+cdb_01_txt+cdb_02_txt+cdb_03_txt+cdb_04_txt+cdb_05_txt+cdb_06_txt+cdb_07_txt+cdb_08_txt+cdb_09_txt+cdb_10_txt+cdb_11_txt+cdb_12_txt+cdb_13_txt+cdb_15_txt+cdb_14_tx t%20+cdb_16_txt+cdb_17_txt+cdb_18_txt+cdb_19_txt+cdb_20_txt+cdb_21_txt+cdb_22_txt+cdb_23_txt+cdb_24_txt+cdb_25_txt+cdb_26_txt&PageSize=1&Page=1&MinCoarseRank=500&Qu eryType=CONCEPT&Quer%20y=&turbine_cdb_lib__cdb_01_txt=Fly%20Me%20To%20The%20Moon&Find+it!=Submit+Query" target="AirLock">Fly Me To The Moon (2 stars out of 5)</a> [i]Orlando Sentinel[/i] [][URL=http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08228/904431-42.stm]Animated space story doesn't soar[/URL] [i]Pittsburgh Post-Gazette[/i] [][URL=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/08/14/DDSP1227GH.DTL]Movie review: 'Fly Me to the Moon'[/URL] [i]San Francisco Chronicle[/i] [][URL=http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/entertainment/reviews.nsf/movie/story/42A1AA13F65A87F3862574A500574EA2?OpenDocument]Fly Me to the Moon: C[/URL] [i]St. Louis Post-Dispatch[/i] [][URL=http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/movies/375020_flymetomoon15q.html]Apollo 11 story lifts 'Fly Me' from the pull of boredom[/URL] [i]Seattle Post-Intelligencer[/i] [][URL=http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/movies/2008114240_mr15fly.html]Fly Me to the Moon": Houston, we have a problem here[/URL] [i]Seattle Times[/i] [][URL=http://www.universetoday.com/2008/08/15/film-review-fly-me-to-the-moon/]Film Review: "Fly Me to the Moon"[/URL] [i]Universe Today[/i] [*][URL=http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/reviews/2008-08-14-fly-me_N.htm]'Fly Me to the Moon' should be scrubbed[/URL] [i]USA Today[/i][/list] While most of the reviews are negative ([URL=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/10009249-fly_me_to_the_moon/]Rotten Tomatoes[/URL] ranks the film a lowly 16% rotten), what's interesting is the common praise the critics do allow:<BLOCKQUOTE>[i]The movie's only saving grace is that it might introduce very young audiences to space exploration and NASA's glory days.[/i] <DIV ALIGN="RIGHT">— USA Today</DIV> [i]But despite the dullness of its main story, the Apollo 11 mission is a thrill, the best part of a mixed bag; it elevates what would otherwise have been a fly-by-night bore into something awe-inspiring in spite of itself.[/i] <DIV ALIGN="RIGHT">— Seattle Post-Intelligencer</DIV> [i]The nicest thing about the movie is its reverence for the Apollo space program. The 3-D technology is put to good use in a scene showing the effects of weightlessness, and the moon walk is depicted from Neil Armstrong's point of view, as Nat is hidden inside the helmet.[/i] <DIV ALIGN="RIGHT">— St. Louis Post-Dispatch</DIV> [i]Space exploration needs movies like this to engage and interest the next generation, and with cameo appearances by the likes of Buzz Aldrin only make movies like Fly Me to the Moon more valuable.[/i] <DIV ALIGN="RIGHT">— Universe Today</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>[/B][/QUOTE]
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