Directed by Damon Thomas, this movie is another adaptation of H.G.Wells' homonym novel. It tells the story of an eccentric scientific called Cavor, who creates a substance that repels gravity. Together with a business man called Bedford, Cavor travels to the moon, where he encounters the Selenite. Staring Rory Kinnear as Bedford and Mark Gatiss as Cavor, "The First Men in the Moon was produced by the BBC and released in 2010.
The worst thing of this movie are the exceptionally crappy special effects.
The acting is very nicely done and the script is both funny and deeply critic. From the first moment one loves Cavor's eccentricity and his seemingly useless rambling. Bedford's ways are, if not very agreeable, a good portrait of the way of thinking of people in his time and of a lot of people nowadays. The Selenite are not only cute and sweet - specially their way of talking - but a very interesting species with ways very different that the ones in of earth.
A very interesting sequence is the one of Bedford's dream, that's made like Méliès silent movie "A Trip to the moon" [1902], which is both a nice tribute to H. G. Wells and George Méliès.
I have yet to read H. G. Wells' novel, but I think that Damon Thomas' adaptation is a very agreeable one, interesting, funny as well as critic. It has a lot of romantic touches and it's very well acted. I recomend it to you.
The worst thing of this movie are the exceptionally crappy special effects.
The acting is very nicely done and the script is both funny and deeply critic. From the first moment one loves Cavor's eccentricity and his seemingly useless rambling. Bedford's ways are, if not very agreeable, a good portrait of the way of thinking of people in his time and of a lot of people nowadays. The Selenite are not only cute and sweet - specially their way of talking - but a very interesting species with ways very different that the ones in of earth.
A very interesting sequence is the one of Bedford's dream, that's made like Méliès silent movie "A Trip to the moon" [1902], which is both a nice tribute to H. G. Wells and George Méliès.
I have yet to read H. G. Wells' novel, but I think that Damon Thomas' adaptation is a very agreeable one, interesting, funny as well as critic. It has a lot of romantic touches and it's very well acted. I recomend it to you.
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