25 best moon movies ever

Despicable Me (2010)

A CGI comedy in which a hapless super-villain, voiced by Steve Carell, seeks to cement his place as the most despicable man in the world by stealing the moon. While the world isn’t short on animated movies these days, Despicable Me ranks among the best of the recent bunch – and consequently a sequel is scheduled for next year.

Marooned (1969)

Gregory Peck and Gene Hackman star in this John Sturges-directed disaster drama, released at a time when the public’s imagination was focussed on space exploration. Three US astronauts are returning from a space station when a malfunction occurs, leaving them “marooned” in their reentry craft, unable to return to either Earth or the station. Ominously, it proceeded the real-life Apollo 13 event by only a year.

Countdown (1967)

A pre-M*A*S*H Robert Altman helmed this ripping yarn in which Robert Duvall and James Caan team up to put a man on the Moon before the Russkies. Made in the run-up to the real-life Moon landing, it's a curious mix of documentary accuracy – Altman filmed on location at Cape Canaveral – and wildly improbable plotting (the astronaut has to stay on the Moon for a full year before being rescued).

Destination Moon (1950)

An early stab at a realistic account of a Moon mission, George Pal's film sees a consortium of industrialists financing a rocket launch – rather like Elon Musk's current efforts. Unlike most 50s sci-fi movies, there are no bug-eyed monsters here – the biggest danger the crew face is equipment failure, pre-empting the Apollo 13 mission.

Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)

Dr Evil flies a rather rude-looking rocket to the Moon in Austin Powers' second mission, where he's set up an impressively shiny moonbase – complete with giant "la-ser" and squad of goons. Naturally, they're divided up into Moon Unit Alpha and Moon Unit Zappa. Naturally, it's down to Britain's greatest spy Austin Powers to stop him – with a helping hand from Felicity Shagwell.

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