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Inviso: I dont know why this one annoyed me as much as it did, but here we are. I feel like this is one of those movies that is very much written for children, without necessarily expecting the parents to glean anything from itbut rather than have a lot of poop humor or whatever, this goes the route of having a fuckton of unnecessary, cutesy filler. Over the Moon is all over the place in both story and tone. The open segment features multiple songs in the style of a Disney princess movie, but the setting is in modern-day China. And that is annoying, but it could work if it maintained that theme throughout the filmbut it doesnt. Once the main character travels to the moon kingdom, where such a whimsical atmosphere would be more welcomethats when we get a modern pop diva concert number, followed by a ping pong rap battle. Its just so bizarre, and thats what I mean when I say the movie has these abrupt tonal shifts.

Then theres the plot. The basic premise is fine: little girl is upset that her dad is meeting a new woman who might replace her dead mom. Because of this, she wants to build a rocket ship to travel to the moon, to prove that her mothers old fairy tales are true. Im willing to let that slide, despite the inanity, because it might just be a cultural thing. Ultimately though, its part of the problem, because you build this girl up as a genius, whos able to build a rocket ship in the first place, and that character trait is almost WILDLY unexplored during the course of the film. It feels like Fei Fei ONLY has this intelligence as a plot convenience to explain her ability to reach the moon. Thats literally the only purpose it serves.

Also, were introduced to Fei Feis obnoxious, future step-brotherand he sneaks aboard her ship, screwing up the calculations. This character has no reason to exist in the plot of the film. He offers nothing and is completely disconnected from the main character. Yet for SOME REASON, despite being separated from almost the moment they arrive in the moon kingdom, the ending comes with the main character having learned to accept this little brother character. MAYBE shes more tolerant by being around the annoying space dog, but thats not a worthy instance of character growth and development. Really, she shouldve been saddled with him through the entire moon section of the movie, slowly growing to realize that he (and by extension, his mother) arent so bad. This would go a long way to making BOTH characters more likable, as they currently are not.

So yeah, this was a rough watch, and it very much felt like one of those films that does not even remotely care about an adult audience. But while a lot of kids movies in that vein go the route of lets fart and poop a lot to make kids laugh, this instead decided to go the route of bright, flashy colors, and lets be extremely safe and uncontroversial in ANY way. Basically, its boring as hell on top of having little in the way of substance. And that sucks, because I feel like this could have been a great story about coping with a new stepmom or something like that. Instead, this is a nothing movie.