Over The Moon

Over the moon is an animation about a young girl and her family. Fei Fei(Cathy Ang) lives with her mother and father and they lived happily selling mooncakes until her mother passed away due to an illness. While her mother was alive, she tells Fei Fei the story of Chang'e  a mortal who took a potion of immortality and she ascended to the moon and became a godess leaving her lover Houyi behind. Chang'e lives lonely on the moon awaiting the return of Houyi.

The first moon festival after her mother's death, her father brings Mrs Zhong (Sandra Oh) and her son Chin(Robert G chiu). Fei Fei learns that her father might be getting married to Mrs Zhong and she is sad. Her extended family came to join them for the moon festival celebration and they begin to talk about Chang'e and they argue if she's real or just a myth. Her father believes that Chang'e is a myth this makes Fei Fei hurt and she feels her father has forgotten all about her mother. She decides to go to the moon and prove that Chang'e is real as this will remind him of her mother and stop him from getting married.. This led her to an adventure and a lesson about acceptance. 

This movie has a theme of acceptance because Fei Fei was still grieving her mother and she didn't want to accept that her father was remarrying. She learnt that it is better to move on from a bad experience than to grieve about it and shut everyone out.  There is also a strong theme of courage and determination in this movie. Fei Fei was courageous enough to embark on a journey to the moon to prove that the godess was real and not a myth. I enjoyed this movie and I highly recommend it.