Who did the singing in Over the Moon in Love?

  • I Love You Truly
    (uncredited)
    Written by Carrie Jacobs Bond
    Performed by Wes Brown
  • Out in the Kitchen
    Written by Pete Graham
    Performed by Pete Graham
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  • Paradise
    Written by Jessica Lowndes
    Performed by Wes Brown and Jessica Lowndes

At the end, Devon and Brook singing their song.

Devon and Brook hug in the bar; later in her house eating

Brook going through her old yearbook

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When you sit down to watch Over the Moon on Netflix, a new animated musical about a young girl who builds a rocket ship in hopes of meeting a legendary lunar princess, don't be surprised if some of the voices sound a little familiar. The all-Asian cast of Over the Moonincludes a handful of newcomers, but mostly very famous and recognizable names. All your faves are here for this heartwarming tale.

For Broadway superfans missing out while theatres are still shut down worldwide, this movie is also an unexpected gathering of theatre talent that should definitely give you a show tunes fix this fall. Not only are there multiple stage stars lending their voices to the characters and songs, but one of Over The Moon’s three composers is Helen Park, who co-wrote the music and lyrics for the cult musical KPOP that, fingers crossed, is headed to the Great White Way very very soon. For the more casual Broadway fan, she's definitely one to watch.

From the two younger performers to the old veterans and the singers and comedians in between, here are the members of the Over the Moon cast, who they play, and how you know them.

Over the Moon
Who did the singing in Over the Moon in Love?

Official release poster

Directed byGlen Keane
Written byAudrey Wells
Produced by

  • Gennie Rim
  • Peilin Chou

Starring

  • Cathy Ang
  • Phillipa Soo
  • Ken Jeong
  • John Cho
  • Ruthie Ann Miles
  • Margaret Cho
  • Sandra Oh

Edited byEdie Ichioka
Music by

  • Steven Price (score)
  • Christopher Curtis (songs)
  • Marjorie Duffield (songs)
  • Helen Park (songs)

Production
companies

  • Netflix Animation
  • Pearl Studio
  • Dentsu Entertainment USA
  • Sony Pictures Imageworks
  • Glen Keane Productions

Distributed byNetflix

Release dates

  • October 17, 2020 (MFF)
  • October 23, 2020 (United States)

Running time

100 minutes
Countries

  • United States
  • China

LanguageEnglish
Box office$860,000[1]

Over the Moon is a 2020 computer-animated musical fantasy film directed by Glen Keane and co-directed by John Kahrs, from a screenplay by Audrey Wells with additional screenplay material by Alice Wu and Jennifer Yee McDevitt. The film was produced by Pearl Studio and Netflix Animation, and animated by Sony Pictures Imageworks. It stars the voices of Cathy Ang, Phillipa Soo, Ken Jeong, John Cho, Ruthie Ann Miles, Margaret Cho, and Sandra Oh. The plot follows an adventurous girl named Fei Fei, who builds a rocket ship to meet a mythical goddess on the moon.

Over the Moon was first shown at the Montclair Film Festival on October 17, 2020, followed by its Netflix and select theaters release on October 23. The film grossed $860,000 worldwide; it earned a Golden Globe nomination for Best Animated Feature Film, and was nominated for Best Animated Feature at the 93rd Academy Awards. It is the final film that Wells worked on before her death, and it was dedicated to her memory.

Plot[edit]

A girl named Fei Fei is being told the legend of the Moon goddess Chang'e who took a potion for immortality, causing her to become a goddess and ascend to the Moon without her lover Houyi, and awaits for him there. In preparation for the annual Moon Festival, Fei Fei and her family make mooncakes for the village. However, Fei Fei's mother falls ill, and gives her daughter a white rabbit named Bungee before passing away.

Fei Fei, who still believes in Chang'e four years later, is upset when she learns that her father is engaged to Ms. Zhong, and is annoyed by her son, Chin. Fei Fei's family joins them for the Moon Festival celebration, and she remembers her mother. Inspired by a crane and the legend of Chang'e, she decides to build a rocket to the Moon to prove that Chang'e is real. She designs a rocket that resembles a Chinese paper lantern in the shape of a rabbit that uses fireworks to boost her speed. Her rocket almost succeeds until she realizes that Chin snuck aboard her rocket and they begin to crash to Earth. Suddenly, the rocket is captured in a mystical beam of energy and taken to the Moon. They crash-land after being "attacked" by 2 friendly foo dogs, who then rescue them and take them to Lunaria.

They are introduced to Chang'e and her backup dancers, the Lunettes. Chang'e tells Fei Fei that she was supposed to deliver a gift for Chang'e to bring Houyi back. Fei Fei takes a photo with Chang'e to prove she is real, but Chang'e takes the photo from Fei Fei and demands the gift. Fei Fei doesn't know what she is talking about, and a frustrated Chang'e announces a competition to find her gift before the last of the moondust falls. Fei Fei gets upset with Chin and leaves him, getting a ride with the Biker Chicks to the crash site. Chin sees some Lunettes with the photo and is captured by Chang'e who demands the location of the gift. Chang'e challenges Chin to a game of ping pong that Chin wins, further upsetting Chang'e. Chang'e cries in despair that she will never see Houyi again. While Chin is trapped in a chamber by Chang'e, Bungee follows the Jade Rabbit into his workplace. Meanwhile, Fei Fei and the Biker Chicks head to her rocket's crash site, where the former meets an exiled Lunarian named Gobi. She discovers her Chang'e doll, which she suspects to be the gift, but the Biker Chicks snatch the doll and leave Fei Fei and Gobi behind.

Fei Fei and Gobi head to Lunaria on the backs of giant toads, where Gobi reveals that Chang'e exiled him due to a song about moving on. Fei Fei and Gobi catch up to the Biker Chicks, but during their scuffle, the doll is destroyed. However, Fei Fei discovers in one of her mooncakes a broken half of an open jade circle and realizes that it is Chang'e's gift. They return to Lunaria's palace, rejoin Chin and Bungee, and present the gift to Chang'e, who makes a full jade circle. Chang'e and Houyi are then briefly reunited, but Houyi tells Chang'e to move on before fading away. Refusing to accept this, Chang'e slips into a state of depression, causing all the light in Lunaria to extinguish.

Fei Fei tries to reach out to Chang'e, but the moment she enters Chang'e's state of sadness, she also becomes depressed due to a vision of her mother. Realizing that they both must move on from their tragedies, Chang'e and Fei Fei encourage each other to find the love all around them. This allows the two to accept their loved ones' deaths, restoring light to Lunaria.

Chang'e thanks Fei Fei and allows her and Chin passage back home—excluding Bungee, who stays on the Moon with Jade Rabbit—and lifts Gobi's banishment. Fei Fei and Chin bid farewell to the Lunarians and return home, where Fei Fei accepts her father and Mrs. Zhong's marriage and Chin as her brother. About a year later, Fei Fei is living happily with her new family and continues to look up at the Moon, watching as cranes fly up towards it in the night.

Voice cast[edit]

  • Cathy Ang as Fei Fei, the 13-year-old girl who believes in Chang'e ever since the loss of her mother.
  • Robert G. Chiu as Chin, Mrs. Zhong's 8-year-old son and Fei Fei's stepbrother.
  • Phillipa Soo as Chang'e, the mythical Moon goddess who yearns to be with her true love Houyi again. The outfits worn by Chang'e in the film were designed and created by haute couture Chinese designer Guo Pei.[2]
  • Ken Jeong as Gobi, a pangolin Lunarian and former royal advisor who was exiled a thousand years ago.
  • John Cho as Ba Ba, Fei Fei's father.
  • Ruthie Ann Miles as Ma Ma, Fei Fei's late mother.
  • Sandra Oh as Mrs. Zhong, Ba Ba's new fiancée, later wife and Fei Fei's stepmother.
  • Margaret Cho as Auntie Ling, one of Fei Fei's aunts.
    • Cho also voices Gretch, one of the Biker Chicks.
  • Kimiko Glenn as Auntie Mei, another one of Fei Fei's aunts.
    • Glenn also voices Lulu, one of the Biker Chicks.
  • Artt Butler as Uncle, Fei Fei's uncle.
    • Butler also voices Bill, one of the Biker Chicks.
  • Irene Tsu as Grandma, Fei Fei's grandma.
  • Clem Cheung as Grandpa, Fei Fei's grandpa.
  • Conrad Ricamora as Hou Yi, Chang’e's true love

Musical numbers[edit]

The score was composed by Steven Price. Original songs were written by Christopher Curtis, Marjorie Duffield and Helen Park.[3]

Song list[edit]

All tracks are written by Christopher Curtis, Marjorie Duffield and Helen Park[4][5][6].

No.TitlePerformer(s)Length
1."On the Moon Above" John Cho, Ruthie Ann Miles and Cathy Ang 1:31
2."Mooncakes" Cho, Miles and Ang 4:19
3."Rocket to the Moon" Ang 3:48
4."Rocket to the Moon (Reprise)" Ang 2:01
5."Ultraluminary" Phillipa Soo 3:20
6."Hey Boy" Soo and Robert G. Chiu 1:47
7."Wonderful" Ken Jeong and Ang 2:37
8."Yours Forever (Reprise)" Soo and Conrad Ricamora 2:00
9."Love Someone New" Soo and Ang 3:36
Total length:24:48

Production[edit]

On September 26, 2017, Pearl Studio hired Audrey Wells to write the script for the film called Over the Moon, which was based on an idea by Janet Yang about a retelling of the classic Chinese myth.[7][8] On February 6, 2018, Netflix acquired distribution rights to the film and Glen Keane was set to direct.[9] However, during this, Audrey Wells died in 2018. The film was dedicated in Audrey Wells' memory.

While studios like Disney and Pixar have become known to use groups of people known as the Braintrust and Story Trust to help with the script, Keane said that "Creative decisions here aren’t made by committee".[10]

The city of Lunaria was inspired by the cover of Pink Floyd's album The Dark Side of the Moon and the paintings of Joan Miró.[11]

Animation was provided by Pearl Studio and Sony Pictures Imageworks.[12]

Steven Price is confirmed to be the film's composer while new original songs are being handled by Christopher Curtis (from Chaplin: The Musical), Marjorie Duffield and Helen Park (from KPOP the Musical).[13]

The cast was announced in June 2020.[14]

Release[edit]

The film was released in select theaters[15] and on Netflix on October 23, 2020.[16] Prior to its October 23 debut, Over the Moon was shown at the Montclair Film Festival on October 17.[17] A day before its release, a book written by animation historian Leonard Maltin about the history about the film called Over the Moon: Illuminating the Journey, was released on October 22.[18] In January 2021, Netflix reported 43 million households had watched the film.[19]

Reception[edit]

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 81% of 100 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 6.9/10. The website's critics consensus reads: "Although many of Over the Moon's narrative ingredients will seem familiar, the film's absorbing animation offers colorful compensation."[20] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 60 out of 100, based on 22 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[21]

Peter Debruge of Variety wrote: "Sometimes it's OK for an adventure to be just an adventure, and this one gets in the way of its own assets, while pointing to the potential of future journeys from the Netflix animation team."[22]

Accolades[edit]

References[edit]

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    Who did the singing in Over the Moon in Love?
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  • Original screenplay by Audrey Wells

Does Jessica Lowndes sing in over the moon?

The vocal talents of Lowndes and Brown can be heard and they are both pretty good singers. However, the rest of the acting was poor.

Who sing the songs in over the moon?

Listen to Phillipa Soo Sing the KPOP-Inspired 'Ultraluminary' From Netflix's Over the Moon | Playbill. Music Video Listen to Phillipa Soo Sing the KPOP-Inspired 'Ultraluminary' From Netflix's Over the Moon The Hamilton Tony nominee performs the new track in the upcoming release.

What are the songs called in over the moon?

Over the Moon (Music from the Netflix Film).
On the Moon AboveCathy Ang, Ruthie Ann Miles, John Cho..
MooncakesCathy Ang, Ruthie Ann Miles, John Cho..
Rocket to the Moon (From the Netflix Film "Over the Moon")Cathy Ang..
Rocket to the Moon (Reprise)Cathy Ang..
Ultraluminary (From the Netflix Film "Over the Moon")Phillipa Soo..

Where was over the moon in love filmed?

This movie starred Jessica Lowndes and Wes Brown, two Hallmark regulars with large fan followings. I believe this film takes place in San Francisco (I recall a shot of Coit Tower at some point) but was primarily filmed in Lowndes' hometown of Vancouver, Canada (naturally) as well as other parts of British Columbia.