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‘Fly Me To The Moon’ Review: Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum Fire On All Cylinders In A Screwy Space-Race Romcom
‘Fly Me To The Moon’ Review: Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum fire on all cylinders in a screwy space-race romcor
Peyton Reed came close in 2003’s with his stylish, early-’60s period pastiche Down with Love, casting Renee Zellweger alongside Ewan McGregor, and Olivia Wilde certainly did not with 2022’s Don’t Worry Darling, lumbering Florence Pugh with Harry Styles in a risible ’50s-themed sci-fi. As the years wore on, however, this once-exciting but vastly expensive competition lost its sheen with the public, initially after the shocking assassination of JFK in 1963 but especially once the Vietnam war took hold soon after — PR issues that were skirted by Ron Howard’s Apollo 13 but not Damien Chazelle’s First Man. Thanks to its increasingly wayward plotting and thoroughly distracting manipulation of known history in the pursuit of ever more ridiculous laughs, Fly Me to the Moon winds up more screwy than screwball, leaving the door wide open, yet again, for the next crack at that old-school Hollywood chemistry thing.
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