Scarlett Johansson Fly Me to the Moon Apple TV Plus Review: Stream It Or Skip It? [Video]

Weariness for mid-century astronaut movies butts heads with the inspired pairing of Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum in a rom-com via Fly Me to the Moon (now streaming on Apple TV+), a bit of NASA histfic focusing on the PR campaign that put the Apollo missions on the lips of every living American. Funny how the Cold War-inspired Space Race and the promise of an American setting foot on the moon needed a marketing boost, but it was a decade of turmoil and attention spans were splintered, I guess. Somewhat oddly, the film, directed by Greg Berlanti, underwhelmed at the box office, earning $42 million after Apple Studios spent a pretty ridiculous $100 million to make it. Perhaps the underwhelm manifested once word got out that this movie never really gets off the ground, not to mention creating enough propulsive force to overcome the intense gravity of Earth’s atmosphere and bust out of orbit, zooming 238,900 miles to the …