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A guy with no friends and family gets left behind on the moon with the only compagnionship of a canguroo. The woman and comander in charge and at the same time the main reason why the guy was on the mission, sacrifices him twice to save the earth.

What started as a funny comedy that I highly enjoyed, unfortunately in the last 20 minutes turned into a drama telling us that the individual has no value seeing the whole picture from the perspective of the big mass. It just tells us that sometimes we have to sacrifice the individual so that the mass can be fine.

A bit bitter message after the post-pandemic years when people died or suffered from wrong treatments or forced seclusion.

With the exception of this message and the deadly end of the funny hero i enjoyed the movie, got a lot of loughs and the pace was fine.

Eye popping special effects and slick editing make Moon Man an easy and entertaining watch.

The film playfully mashes together a number of sci-fi cinema tropes found in films such as Armaggedon, The Martian and Independance Day 2 (but without the aliens).

Shen Teng. Plays an engineer assigned to maintain a moon base set up to save the Earth from a massive meteorite. Teng is engaging as the stranded astronaut, Dugu Yue, who can do nothing but watch on in horror as meteor fragments hit the Earth.

Contacted by survivors, he is set up as an inspirational figure, a role he eventually fulfills. As time passes. Yue must contend with a large Red Kangeroo left behind by research scientists and the knowledge that only the creature and he stand between Earth and an extinction level event.

The film is thoroughly entertaining, balancing, as it does, humour and drama. There is a space romance beteen. Dugu. Yue (Teng ), and. Ma Lanxing (played by. Ma Li.) and, comedically., the Kangeroo.

Check it out if you can.

The scene design is very futuristic, but it is also very pleasing to children, suitable for family viewing. Funny style as always, but doing cross talk with a kangaroo who can't talk is so challenging that some of the hilarious bits aren't too funny. The timing of the soundtrack is perfect, but only if you are a Chinese in the 80s and 90s. As a comedy, it can only be at an average level, compared with the previous works of Mahua FunAge, it is in the middle and lower level.

I saw Moon Man, starring Teng Shen-Only Fools Rush In, Lost In Russia; Li Ma-Never Say Die, Goodbye Mr. Loser and Yuan Chang-Warm Hug, Airpocalypse.

This is a Chinese sci_fi/comedy that is sub_titled. I usually don't like to read a movie but sometimes you just grit your teeth and go for it. Teng plays a maintenance man that works on the moon at a special base that keeps an eye out for any dangerous asteroids headed for the Earth. Li plays the commander of the base and Teng is infatuated with her, but never gets a chance to actually talk to her. Yuan plays a fellow co_worker at the base. When a giant asteroid is on a direct course for Earth, there isn't time to stop it and everyone has to evacuate back to Earth to be with their loved ones. Everyone except Teng, who is busy writing a love letter to Li and doesn't hear the evac call. Teng is stranded for 2 years on the moon while everyone that survived the asteroid bombardment of Earth tries to figure out a way to bring Teng home. Oh yeah, there is a kangaroo-yes, I said kangaroo-on the moon with Teng for comical entertainment. It seems that he was also left behind in the evacuation.

There wasn't a rating or even a trailer-that's why I didn't know it was sub_titled-but it had a running time of 2 hours & 2 minutes.

It's not one that I would buy on DVD but it would be alright as a rental.

This movie had one of the best opening sequence in a movie i've seen in a long time. It was so funny and I laughed out loud many times. When he had the headphones on, and finally saw what was going on outside the window, and then racing after the ships, I got flashback to one of those Jackie Chan movies that used to also have really funny action comedy in the opening sequences.

Some of the sequences with the kangaroo was priceless:)

After the opening, the movie had its ups and downs. It really plays on your emotions, as I think many Chinese movies seem to do.

But it's sort of the same as other "disaster" movies tries to do, like "Armageddon" did back in the day.

I do wish that the movie had kept up as a action comedy trough out, and not switched to a "drama" in the end, but overall, this was a very good movie.

First of all, this is an adaptation of Cho Seok's "Moon You", a comedy webtoon.

Second of all, I have read the webtoon, and personally gave it a 10/10.

The webtoon format, like a book, gave the story a lot of room and time to develop. Despite the author's somewhat unusual sense of humor made of crazy and random wacky twists, the original webtoon hit a good balance of wackiness and proper emotions.

TL;DR: The movie managed to capture all the key ideas of the original, in a 2hr format, with few cringey changes. And the effects are actually really good for the budget they have. But personally think this adaptation should be a mini TV series of sort. To experience the full emotion roller coaster, you should check out the original webtoon, on Webtoon, search "Moon You"

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The following is a summary of the webtoon:

The story is simple, kinda like Matt Damon got trapped on the Mars, Moon You, a biologist, got trapped on the Moon. But unlike Matt knowing that there is people on Earth for him to call, Moon You, after witnessing a gigantic asteroid hit the Earth head-on from the prime location of the Moon, and no one is answering his calls at all afterward, he assumed he is the last human in the universe.

Moon You, in his desperation, tried to off himself, after a few comedically fails due to environmental factors, in the end he was unable to actually do it by taking off his EVA suit helmet on the Moon, revealing that deep down, he doesnt want to die.

Different from Matt Damon's situation, Moon You had enough supplies to last him several lifetimes. So he ended up being Christ Pratt from the Passenger. He went on going through the grieving stages. Throughout this time, he discovered two other survivors, first one is a buffed up red kangaroo, who was part of the space cattle/food source program, and much later on, a human survivor who was a covert operative, and became a bit deranged due to isolation.

Despite the extraordinary options of companions, it beats no companion. Moon You managed to live with the unruly kangaroo, even gave him a name (Dai Dou, basically like Sir Kangaroo). And later on also forming a bond with the hermetic covert operative. This formed a big portion of the comedic interactions in the storyline.

Unknowing to Moon You, there are human survivors on Earth, and they can see him through the surveillance cameras in the Moon base from a very early time. They are unable to hear Moon You though, due to equipment issues and the nuclear winter situation on Earth. During Act I & II, this is pretty much the other half of the comedy, as the NASA people attempted to utilize Moon You's video feed to boost the survivor's morale. And needless to say, it wasnt easy, as they have no control on what image they can receive.

However, either due to NASA's attempts like hiring a dubber trying to improvise a dub on the live feed, or the ex machina type of signal lost/reception at the right time. Moon You became a beacon of hope on Earth. And when Moon You lost his only human companion and all his hope due to a meteorite storm, the survivors on Earth, lit up the surface to give him hope.

For Act III, Earth managed to re-establish connection with Moon You, and he pulled himself together, trying to work out a way to get him back on Earth. And just as he finish up the preparation, they find out that there is a world-ender size fragment from the original asteroid is on its way to collision 2.0. As a heroic attempt, Moon You shoved Dai Dou in the return pod, and stayed behind to launch both the return pod and the last of the nukes towards the incoming asteroid. In the end, Earth is saved, but the Moon base got destroyed. Yet Moon You managed to survive by himself on the Moon Surface by retreating deeper into the secret facility that his covert operative buddy used to occupy.

I personally think the webtoon story has the perfect pace and proportion of comedy and core story line. And the level of exaggerations are always spot on to make it fun but not out of control. Reading the webtoon made me feel like I am actually experiencing the events, and all of the events are indeed very probable in a real world situation. It's not just there to make you only laugh or cry, but it will make you sincerely laugh out loud while crying hard.

Have to say, as a comedy film, "Moon man" is very touching.

The whole film has a very good rhythm and very dramatic turn,which makes people suddenly move to tears when they laugh. (By the way, I like the episodes in the film very much, which are pleasing to the ear and just right place. As much as you laughed in the first half of the movie, the story of the protagonist drifting and turning around in the back will be more surprising and even touching. The girl in the back row of me cried here for a while, and in the finale, she cried for a while when she watched Du Guyue embrace Big Ivan.

In a word, I think this film is worth the fare, whether it's a joke or a scene. The Shen Teng-Mali group can also be regarded as a sign of comedy film in China.

In the final, I would like to introduce a piece of knowledge to you. There is a hidden strongman in the movie: the Grade 8 fitter. Grade 8 workers are top craftsmen with exquisite skills, the highest level before the hierarchical reform. Given enough time, they can almost create the world.