Fly Me to the Moon is a 2024 American romantic comedy drama film directed by Greg Berlanti from a screenplay by Rose Gilroy, based on a story by Bill Kirstein and Keenan Flynn. It stars Scarlett Johansson, Channing Tatum, Jim Rash, Ray Romano, and Woody Harrelson.

To call this a comedy would be like calling Titanic a fun Holiday Flick.  Not one laugh, titter or smirk could this raise.

Then there are the characters. Channing Tatum is the good looking flight director and he does a good impression of a cardboard box. And when you have Scarlett Johansson playing opposite, you know they will get together at the end. This is a horrible character with no redeeming characteristics. She lies, bribes and cons her way through the entire story. Even when they try to crowbar in a redemption near the end,  it falls flat.

Then there is Jim Rash as Lance Vespertine the director. If all the stuff-ups he caused were true, he would not have a job.

There are some better characters. Ray Romano , unrecognizable in a beard is great. Woody Harrelson is great as a slime-ball government official, something he excels at.

But to add insults to the engineers at NASA, they add in a fake moon landing video.

There was scope to make this an entertaining film. With a more farcical directing style, it could have satirized the commercialization  of space. But that would require different lead actors.

I did watch it to the end, just to find out where it was going. But in the end this is just a horrible film the undermines what was achieved at NASA with what tries to be a “romantic comedy”.