Clevercell Very disappointing...

Odelecol Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

BeSummers Funny, strange, confrontational and subversive, this is one of the most interesting experiences you'll have at the cinema this year.

Portia Hilton Blistering performances.

ryanwmullally This is an absolute masterpiece. The effects are phenomenal, back then and still now. The effects were mostly good because George's Meiles himself was a magician so he had a clear vision and knew exactly what to do. Today, it would have all been done by CGI and it would look like crap. This film is timeless, that's why I love.The Story is about a group of scientists who travel to the moon to go on an adventure. They battle aliens, and then they escape the eart triumph.That's pretty much it, but what do you expect from a short film. But it keeps you interested all the time. This a treat for anyone with a good taste of cinema. So, if you're sick of all the summer blockbusters, watch this. Masterpiece.

The Movie Diorama The pinnacle of classic cinema. One of the earliest motion pictures to ever be recovered and released. Arguably the most influential and culturally significant sci-fi film of all time. And damn does it still hold up well today. Over 100 years old (released in 1902) and still has the entrancing power to hypnotise me with Méliès' authentic production design. Wow. Just incredible. A group of astronomers build a capsule and launch it in an effort to land on the moon, where they encounter extraterrestrial life. Using his artistry as an illusionist, Méliès was able to capture a staged production on film and utilise his trickery and editing skills to craft a coherent silent story. The layered stage design that Méliès and his team built in his film studio exhumed both imagination and innovation. Shooting a bullet shaped capsule into the moon's eye, astronomers bashing jumping aliens causing them to explode and the capsule falling straight (literally) back down to Earth. It is pure fiction that really hinders on the viewer's imaginative capabilities. Some of Méliès techniques were absolute genius. Ranging from the filming of a fish tank depicting underwater scenes to the infamous panning shot as the camera zooms in on the moon. Méliès didn't just direct these films, he invented them on a practical level. With no dialogue cards, the narrative was told through expressive acting which, whilst came across as exceedingly goofy, added flamboyancy and charm to the picture. There isn't much else to say. This wasn't just any old film that time forgot about, this was a stepping stone that influenced epic features like '2001: A Space Odyssey' and 'Metropolis'. Without Le Voyage Dans La Lune, we may not have even been introduced to sci-fi pictures for many years after. So for that, I truly am grateful for Méliès' pioneering work. Plus, how often can you say you've seen a film that's over 100 years old? Exactly!

He_who_lurks Okay, this movie is NOT the first narrative film that director Georges Melies created. He had previously adapted the story of Cinderella in 1899, in 1900 a biopic of Joan of Arc, and an adaptation of Bluebeard in 1901. But it is this film that has become the most celebrated in all of cinema. It's very simple story (astronomers going to the moon) but for the time, amazing. I mean, no one even had GONE to the moon by 1902.Before this, film subjects were rough seas, men playing cards, trains arriving in stations, etc. So looking at how film was before Georges Melies made this, you can tell this film was ground-breaking for its time. Watching it today, it looks very quaint (no closeups or medium closeups and carried forth like a stage play) but the sets are amazing for their time and who hasn't seen the iconic shot of the rocket in the Moon's eye?? So imagine this: You're walking along and you pass this theater. "Showing today: "A Trip to the Moon" reads the billboard. Curious of the title, you go in to watch it. And how astounded are you when you witness the multiple-shot, special effects, story extravaganza? It must have filled audiences with wonder.There are several different reasons why this was extraordinary in its day. First, (like I said before) at the time nobody had gone to the moon at all and the very idea of traveling there was most absurd back then. Second, special effects were still in their infancy. Third, films had no real big plots at the time; and this was one of the first films to feature a real, developed plot. And fourth, at the time most films weren't even over 5 minutes; this film is 13 minutes.A very sophisticated film for 1902, and a must-see for film buffs. An 8 out of 10 (might've been a 10 out of 10 if it had been Melies's first full-length feature). On a side note, one of the surviving prints is missing the ending, while another does have the ending, and another still is complete and is hand-colored.Review edited on June 19, 2018

Giallo Fanatic This is one of the most important pieces of film in the history of movies. Georges Méliès was quite a wizard of special effects and he was very ahead of his time. He did a lot of comedies with odd visuals and amusing special-effects that were to be used later on in a whole lot of movies. But he is most famous for his sci-fi movies like "A Trip to the Moon", "The journey through the impossible" and "The moon at a meter" which are visionary and influential movies. "A Trip to the Moon" for example, has been referenced in an episode of "Futurama". Many film scholars also argue special-effects in this movie are very important, quoting from a website: "which some cinema scholars cite as the picture where special effects as we know them began, has a particularly important place in cinema history." I must say, Méliès was very creative and he had ideas that were quite wild in his time. I gotta say, when I watched "A Trip to the Moon" I was amazed at how ahead this movie is. This movie basically set the clichés for sci-fi movies and sci-fi series. The spacecraft that crashed onto our moon is for example very iconic (referenced in "Futurama" like I just wrote).So this movie should not be missed by any serious film enthusiast. Because Méliès wild ideas, the special effects, the ahead-of-its-time-editing, the script and the acting are great. By the way, I think Méliès was a bit of an existentialist since his movies had a variety of themes from mindless slapstick to religion to science then questioning the existence of mankind through his movies. In this movie he took an interest in science, traveling to the moon and the possibility of life in other places besides Earth. Now, those thoughts occupy many of us today but Méliès was already thinking about it before many of us were even born. That is pretty astonishing. So it isn't just a movie that is ahead of its time, it also had a director that was ahead of his time. I am so impressed if I were to make a film school, Méliès would be mandatory and any serious film lover have to watch at least 20 of Méliès movies. That's how important I think this movie is, that's how important I think Méliès is to movies, not only sci-fi movies but any movie that has special-effects in it and wild ideas in it.I myself think this movie is worth 9/10. Maybe I will rate it higher in the future, but that is how I feel now. Astonishing movie.