Mooned (2023)
0h 9m | PG-13
Villainous Vector must figure out how to get off the moon and return to Earth.
Director: Jonathan del Val
Studio: Illumination
Genre: Animation, Family, Comedy
Video: 720p
Cast
Jason Segel
as Vector (voice)
Pierre Coffin
as Minions (voice)
Claire Dodgson
as Additional Voices
Chris Renaud
as Additional Voices
Reviews
"Vector" clad simply in a spacesuit and with a polythene goldfish bowl for an helmet finds himself stranded on the moon. Luckily, he has loads of gadgets at his disposal but he's so inept that most of the time he just flails about as if he were in a Laurel & Hardy movie. It's then that he encounters a bespectacled and friendly "Minion" but in typical human fashion becomes immediately hostile refusing to co-operate with his potential yellow ally. What now ensues is a rather characterless animation that reminded me a little of those over-narrated 1950s Disney cartoons with a scientific aspect to them. Let's learn about gravity, or aerodynamics, or rocketry - or, maybe just: let's learn about collaboration and not making snap judgements. There's quite a fun guest appearance at the end from a visitor from even further away, and it's an easy enough nine minutes of Illumination artistry to watch - just nothing to write home about.