Skip to main content

Movie Review: Moonshot


Well, well, well, would you look at Mars.

I've been craving a romance movie for a while now and when I saw the trailer for Moonshot, I was like, yes. Finally! Something to see. 

Yeah, maybe not so much happiness after all.

Movie Plot

Following the evolution of earth in 2049 where Mars is now habitable and a plane ticket cost $950,000, two teenagers struggle to come to their reality. While one longs to go to Mars because he doesn't feel at home on earth, the other misses her boyfriend and decides to go and join him. With so many dreams on the line, the two of them explore their fantasies.

Okay.

Where do I start from? Seeing Lana Condor and Cole Sprouse gave me so much happiness.

You just have to love those two because of their individual performance in so many other movies. Case in point: Riverdale and To All The Boys I've Loved Before.

I didn't have any expectations aside from seeing both of them together. 

The storyline was pretty normal. You know, those regular teenage love stories where a girl feels her boyfriend is aloof and falls for the new guy.

The only new element was the idea of Mars. That's all. Nothing different from all the millions of teen romance movies we've seen.

I kept wondering, why can't directors make the boyfriend a cool guy who actually listens to his girlfriend and makes it work?

Why must the girl always fall for the new guy who just happens to magically get her through and through? Must the new guy win the girl? Must the boyfriend be selfish?

Maybe it's time for a new outline, don't you think?

It was comedy, love and space. Nothing much.

You should already know how it ended. Yes, the new guy got the girl after she went to Mars and realized life on Mars wasn't what she wanted.

I guess the main lesson was that life isn't always greener on the other side. You think you want to be with someone else, be some place else, but on getting your wish, you realise it's not at all what it's cut out to be.

Rating: 4/10. Really sorry, but this 4 is because I love Sprouse and Lana.

Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The turns in the The Turning

The horror movie genre is one of the most successful genre in the movie industry. Scary endings and suspense filled scenes have carved a niche and are not going anywhere anytime soon.     Inconclusive endings are not new to the genre but some endings are indeed too inconclusive.The turning is a 2020 horror movie which held a lot of scare factors but failed to land at a significant point.      With little similarities to The Boy 1, a young lady decides to tutor an orphaned little girl at their manor but is met with circumstances she could have never prepared for.         The whole story started out quite well -the creaking doors, the shadows, the nightmares and then there was an addition of the creepy behaviour given off by Miles, the brother of Flora.      The major flaw in the movie was the absence of a definitive conclusion, too many questions were left unanswered- Is Kate insane? Is Miles truly posses...
Post a Comment
Read more

SONIC THE HEDGEHOG

Okay. I absolutely adored this movie. I'm a sucker for games and movies. So when game characters are incorporated into movies so perfectly, I get all giddy. Cast Ben Schwartz,James Madsen, Jim Carrey, Tika Sumpter, Lee Majdoub. The redesign was totally worth it, even though it cost more money, it paid off. Spoilers ahead.        I've watched different sonic cartoons and also played the game, but the movie was a hit. A blue alien hedgehog leaves his own planet because people want to use his powers..He comes to Earth-Green hill to be specific and spy's on all the neighbors, particularly the sheriff whom he calls "Donut Lord". But as it is with lending assistance to strangers, trouble always follows.      Lemme start with the voicing for sonic. Ben Schwartz was pretty impressive in his voicing, sounding like a young boy and portraying how their mind works.  Sheriff Tom (Madsen) was cool. Not so serious and not so unserious. Hi...
Post a Comment
Read more

DOLITTLE

     Many of us -most especially the vets would give anything to understand what our beloved pets are saying. To know what every meow and woof signifies. But alas, we are not gifted that way.      But the opposite was the case for Dr John Dolittle who could understand every animal there was -even a dragon- and communicate in their individual languages too.       This  family adventure movie sees Robert Downey Junior(RDJ) take on a different, calmer role than his iconic Iron Man.  Cast Antonio Banderas (King Rassouli), Harry Collett, (Tom Stubbins). Voice over actors involved in the movie were Emma Thompson (Polynesia the parrot), Rami Maleek (Chee Chee, the gorilla), John Cena (Yoshi the bear), Kumail Nanjiani (Plimpton the ostrich), Octavia Spencer (Dab Dab the duck), Tom Holland (Jip the lurcher), Craig Robinson (Kevin the squirrel), Selena Gomez (Betsy the Giraffe), Ralph Fiennes (Barry the Tiger), Mari...
Post a Comment
Read more