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Fly Me to the Moon Is Just Good Enough to Make You Wish It Were Better
Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum are terrific, and the cast is clearly having fun, but the movie is mostly just a pleasant trifle.
Sure enough, she’s soon approached by Moe Berkus (Woody Harrelson), a shadowy figure from the newly elected Nixon administration, who wants her to go down to Florida and provide a little public-facing pizzazz to the moribund, not-ready-for-prime-time geeks at NASA, who are about to lose their congressional funding. With his seriousness of purpose and awkward demeanor, he can’t quite wrap his head around some city slicker trying to sell the Space Race to the public with product placements and advertising partnerships, all the while trying to coo at and woo reluctant senators into not cutting off the agency’s funding. There’s also a subplot, much highlighted in the film’s trailers but introduced surprisingly late in the picture, about Kelly’s efforts to create a fake version of the moon landing, a scheme code-named “Project Artemis,” meant as a fail-safe in case the real mission goes awry.
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