Over The Moon: Did Fei Fei Actually Reach The Moon?
In Over The Moon, does Fei Fei really fly to the moon in her homemade rocket ship or is it all just a dream? Netflix’s 2020 animated musical Over The Moon is a co-production between the streamer’s animation arm, China’s Pearl Studio and Sony Pictures Imageworks that boasts Disney alum Glen Keane in the director’s chair making his feature-length debut. Keane directs from a script penned by the late Audrey Wells that’s rich in references to Chinese mythology and traditions and is brought to life by an all-star Asian American voice cast.
The protagonist of Over The Moon is Fei Fei (Cathy Ang) – a young girl who is finding it hard to cope with the death of her mother (Ruthie Ann Miles) four years earlier and struggles when her father (played by John Cho) gets engaged to Mrs. Zhong (Sandra Oh), mother to Fei Fei’s bratty would-be step-brother Chin (Robert G. Chiu). When Fei Fei was younger, her mother told her the legend of Chang’e – a mortal woman who took an immortality potion and became the goddess of the moon, leaving behind her soulmate Houyi who she still waits for. This instilled a belief in Fei Fei that love is everlasting, and she thinks if she can prove the legend is real her father will remember how much he loved her mother.
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To that end, the scientifically-minded Fei Fei builds a homemade rocket and travels to the moon, inadvertently taking Chin along. After they crash on the moon, Fei Fei discovers Chang’e (Phillipa Soo) is real and presides over a kingdom called Lunaria. However, Chang’e isn’t who Fei Fei expected and she’s soon sent on a mission to find a gift for the moon goddess that will supposedly reunite Chang’e with her long-lost
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