Moonwalkers
Set in 1969 London, Moonwalkers tells the story of an unstable CIA agent and the manager of a rock band who must find a way to fake the moon landing after failing to locate the legendary Stanley Kubrick.
11 April 1951, Burbank, California, USA
7 January 1988, Portlaoise, County Laois, Ireland
24 May 1948, Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, UK
8 August 1973, London, England, UK
13 April 1950, New York City, New York, USA
18 June 1980, Kent, England, UK
April 09, 2017
Playing a psychedelic Swinging Sixties riff on the notion that Stanley Kubrick faked the Apollo moon landings for NASA, Moonwalkers concocts a goofy slapstick scenario out of the famous conspiracy theory.
December 12, 2016
Bardou-Jacquet cut his teeth on adverts and music videos, and it shows; he gets an A for visuals and "groovy" set design, but a D for plotting, dialogue and the ability to milk a scene for a joke.
January 14, 2016
Director Antoine Bardou-Jacquet, who devised the story, is dazzled by period style and puerile jokes, but nothing lands as especially funny, merely tired.
February 01, 2016
The whole thing has a retro swinging 60s vibe that I enjoyed. The actors all commit to both the lunacy on screen and its premise, and the result is a good natured and entertaining film.
January 14, 2016
Houston, we have landed in an overtly silly, mod-and-LSD rendition of '69 London that seems on loan from the Austin Powers sets.
January 15, 2016
Forget a fake moon landing. "Moonwalkers" is a fake comedy ...
January 14, 2016
[A] cheerfully insane, comically violent, often confounding, sometimes tedious but ultimately entertaining trip through the looking glass.
January 14, 2016
The misguided "Moonwalkers" invests too much in the comedy potential of things that haven't been funny for a long while.
December 12, 2016
Along with a lot of laughs, Moonwalkers offers a lovingly critical take on pop culture, touching on themes of patriotism and film industry pomp, without getting cynical.
January 23, 2016
Tarantino on acid subversive sixties stoner satire. But a combo ballsy big screen intersection of politics, publicity and propaganda that couldn't be more provocatively in the here and now concerning truth in movies and the media - if there ever was any.
January 15, 2016
It's all good English fun, full of drugs, brutality, and general late-'60s decadence. It's also weirdly slack for such an insane ride, as if director Antoine Bardou-Jacquet was afraid he might get in the way of Dean Craig's splendid story.
October 11, 2016
Rupert Grint earns a few chuckles throughout, as do a handful of the supporting players, but ultimately Moonwalkers feels a whole lot like a funny idea that never got fleshed out beyond its second act.
