Scarlett Johansson can play anything. From “Black Widow” action, “Under The Skin” vagueness or ‘romcom’.
The story here is about the race to the moon. After the Russians managed to fly to the moon, the Americans want to be the first to actually land on it and that before the end of the 1960’ies. As enthousiastic as the race is picked up, world events start to get the upper hand.
Kelly Jones (Johansson) and her advertising company is hired by Nasa to retrieve the attention of both the general audience, but mostly that of the politicians who have to provide the funds. Jones sets out to find sponsors, brush up the image of Nasa, enthuse politicians and when the day of the launch of Apollo 11 gets nearer and nearer, even another, much more far reaching assignment.
“Fly Me To The Moon” is an amusing romcom drama, of course overly patriotistic, but with a good story and subtle humour.
