A Trip to the Moon (2011)

Fantastic!

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

This is one of the most important pieces of film in the history of movies. Georges Méliès was quite a wizard of special effects and he was very ahead of his time. He did a lot of comedies with odd visuals and amusing special-effects that were to be used later on in a whole lot of movies. But he is most famous for his sci-fi movies like "A Trip to the Moon", "The journey through the impossible" and "The moon at a meter" which are visionary and influential movies. "A Trip to the Moon" for example, has been referenced in an episode of "Futurama". Many film scholars also argue special-effects in this movie are very important, quoting from a website: "which some cinema scholars cite as the picture where special effects as we know them began, has a particularly important place in cinema history." I must say, Méliès was very creative and he had ideas that were quite wild in his time. I gotta say, when I watched "A Trip to the Moon" I was amazed at how ahead this movie is. This movie basically set the clichés for sci-fi movies and sci-fi series. The spacecraft that crashed onto our moon is for example very iconic (referenced in "Futurama" like I just wrote).So this movie should not be missed by any serious film enthusiast. Because Méliès wild ideas, the special effects, the ahead-of-its-time-editing, the script and the acting are great. By the way, I think Méliès was a bit of an existentialist since his movies had a variety of themes from mindless slapstick to religion to science then questioning the existence of mankind through his movies. In this movie he took an interest in science, traveling to the moon and the possibility of life in other places besides Earth. Now, those thoughts occupy many of us today but Méliès was already thinking about it before many of us were even born. That is pretty astonishing. So it isn't just a movie that is ahead of its time, it also had a director that was ahead of his time. I am so impressed if I were to make a film school, Méliès would be mandatory and any serious film lover have to watch at least 20 of Méliès movies. That's how important I think this movie is, that's how important I think Méliès is to movies, not only sci-fi movies but any movie that has special-effects in it and wild ideas in it.I myself think this movie is worth 9/10. Maybe I will rate it higher in the future, but that is how I feel now. Astonishing movie.

The goal is to go to the moon (without masks....) and they do. when there they get kidnapped by moonmen. The escape scene is bad and. So themovie starts with no sound... And it is just boring with all thosehats, and that it's old is no excuse. The moon is cool but that is the only thing I enjoyed and you saw it like 10 seconds. The moon mens were bad created and it did not make any sense. My question is how could they even be at the moon. It is impossible without that mask thing. A trip to the moon has bad acting and bad special effects and it's old is still no excuse. The only thing that makes this a 2 is the moon. Without the moon this would bee a 1. So that is my review of A trip to the moon.

I surely enjoyed the film even though while I was watching it I kind of had to remind myself that the film was made over 100 years ago. I think that nowadays we're used to see special effects in movies all the time and sometimes we focus on that and we don't really pay attention to the story. In this film though the plot was pretty good it is innovative and funny. I really appreciated the special effects and the colored clips. It's impressive thinking that someone painted by hand all the clips. "A trip to the moon" is a timeless film for sure and the fact that we're still watching it and talking about it 110 years later is the proof of that. I think that the reason why the film is still around is that it's balanced: the plot is innovative, funny and creative, and at the same time there's action and special effects and that makes the film more exiting. In 1902 the century just started and I guess people wanted to see and try new things and I think that the film reflects that desire of progress and innovation both in the plot and in the editing.

Actually its my first time to study the film history, its so wonderful that the development of the film, technology. at that time I can hardly believe that people can do the film in that high quality, This film tells an interesting story that people imaged to through the bullet fly o the moon, and have an wonderful trip in the moon, include the imagination of the alien they are so cute! They both fight together and when the alien explosion the alien become a mass of smoke that was so funny! I like this film, not only the funny plot, but also the innovative spirit, Its amazing that people can image the trip to moon, Simultaneously this also reflects the people of the unknown at the time of the spirit of exploration.