Director: Greg Berlanti
Three houseflies hitch a ride on humanity's biggest adventure in "Fly Me to the Moon," a 2024 animated family film built around the Apollo 11 mission and led by the voices of Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum.
What is Fly Me to the Moon about?
Roughly fifty years back, as the first astronauts prepare for their historic trip to the moon, nobody notices three small stowaways slipping aboard for the ride. The houseflies see the mission as their own accidental grand adventure, buzzing through a spacecraft built for the biggest scientific leap of the era while the humans around them are entirely focused on the countdown and the risks ahead. Once the crew realizes uninvited passengers have made it into their carefully controlled capsule, a scramble begins to catch them before they can cause any real trouble, and the small, chaotic chase plays out against the enormous backdrop of a mission the whole world is watching. The result is a family adventure that treats the moon landing as a stage for a much smaller, funnier story running in its margins.
Cast & crew
Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum lead the voice cast, with Woody Harrelson, Ray Romano, Jim Rash, Anna Garcia, Donald Watkins, and Noah Robbins rounding out the ensemble.
Context & significance
Directed by Greg Berlanti, the film blends adventure, animation, and family genres into a lighthearted 84-minute take on one of the twentieth century's most documented events. Produced in the United States, it sits in a lineage of family films that use a famous historical backdrop as scaffolding for an entirely invented, smaller-scale story, letting younger viewers approach a major moment in space history from an unexpected angle.
Where & how to watch
"Fly Me to the Moon" streams on K-Time with a free account login, and the page describing it is open to read without signing in. Both a Persian dub and Persian subtitles are available, making it an easy pick for family viewing in Farsi, and the platform's fully Farsi interface keeps the whole experience native for Iranian diaspora households.