Movie Review: ‘Moonwalkers’

Harry Potter's Rupert Grint and Sons of Anarchy's Ron Perlman team up for "Moonwalkers," a comedy set in London in 1969. Time Warner Cable News film critic Neil Rosen filed the following review.

A crazy conspiracy theory that has been kicking around for years is that the Apollo astronauts never landed on the moon, and that the whole moonwalk was faked in a movie studio and was directed by master filmmaker Stanley Kubrick.

That's the springboard that the makers of this zany comedy use for their premise. Perlman plays a CIA operative, suffering from Vietnam flashbacks, who goes to London to meet with Kubrick. Grint plays a second rate band manager who's in debt to dangerous loan sharks. Desperate for money, he pretends he's Kubrick's agent just so he can get the big payday. Grint also enlists his stoner actor friend to go along with the scheme.

Grint, in his best role since Harry Potter's Ron Weasley, is quite good here. Perlman, who plays it mainly straight, is also quite funny. Also very entertaining is Robert Sheehan as the always-high Kubrick impersonator, while Tom Audenaert, as the whacked out director they get to shoot this thing, is a riot. His avant garde movie - where fat people are bouncing on a trampoline - that he thinks is high art and took him three years to make is very humorous.

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. If you take this movie for what it is and just go along for the ride, you will find there are many laughs here.