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In this feature-length remake of A Trip to the Moon, astronomers in 1902 Paris build a space canon and shoot their space capsule into an anomalous area on the moon’s surface that can support life, where they encounter and fight off the Selenites and save the Star Women.
SYNOPSIS:
A young and ambitious Parisian astronomer named Gaston Cabaret discovers a life-supporting area on the moon, located in the “man in the moon’s” right eye. Gaston has a trying time convincing the astronomer president George André to agree to an exploratory mission. They’re given the blueprints for the space cannon from a mysterious women named Jeanne, who claims that she got it from her late father’s research. But Jeanne wrote them herself, and she’s really one of the “Star Women” from the moon who’s escaped to Earth and wants to rescue the rest of her race. The other astronomers are gradually won over, and they proceed to build the space cannon with funding from both the French and British governments, and with the aid of British military workers. They also have to figure out the meticulous calculations required for determining where and when they should launch. Gaston, George, Jeanne, a third astronomer named Victor, and two female nurses from the British Marines, are picked to be the six-man crew for the space capsule. Their loaded into the space cannon and fired at the moon.
After landing on the moon’s surface, the crew explores the life-supporting area, while performing some scientific experiments, particularly in regards to the strange vegetation (particularly large, rapidly growing mushrooms that contain a strange adhesive paste, and grow in deep dark caves), and the volatile weather patterns (like sudden, inexplicable, and brief snowfalls). They also come across ancient statues and structures built to worship gods that are personifications of planets in the solar system and some constellations (particularly Saturn, the Big Dipper, and the Moon itself).
They suddenly encounter the Selenites. The Selenites capture the crew, killing Mary and accidentally breaking the space capsule in the process. After being taken to the Selenite king Verj, George is killed, and the others are forced to work with the Star Women as slaves. The astronomers learn about the histories of the Star Women and the Selenites, about Jeannie’s true identity, and about the Selenites’ plan to invade Earth. The Star Women are of a technologically advanced human-like species from a distant solar system. Their planet was dying, so they fled in rocket ships, just managing to crash-land on Earth’s moon. They have lost all of the men of their species and their race is consequently dying out. The Selenites have enslaved the Star Women and force them to use their advanced technology to preserve the moon’s dwindling resources and maintain the life-support area. The Selenites are a savage and warring insect/crustacean-like humanoid species, with nigh-invulnerable exoskeletons, strong and acrobatic physiology, and powerful weapons developed for them by the Star Women. With the Moon’s life-support area rapidly deteriorating, the Selenites are now forcing the Star Women to help them invade Earth. In their early history, they built several statues and structures to venerate their “gods,” personifications of planets and stars. The astronomers manage to win over the Star Women by promising to take them to Earth.
The astronomers escape with the aid of the Star Women. Victor discovers that the paste in the Moon’s mushrooms makes the Selenites’ exoskeletons explode upon contact. They ultimately manage to fight off the Selenites by coating their canes and umbrellas with the mushrooms, and Jeanne kills King Verj. They also repair their space capsule using the Star Women’s spaceship fuel known as cavorite. They get back in the ship thanks Jeanne’s best friend Rose, a fellow Star Women who dies fighting the Selenites so the others can escapes. They manage to return to Earth, accompanied by the now-rescued Star Women who follow in their own ship, just as the life-support area fully collapses, killing off the rest of the Selenites. Verj’s Guard-Captain Hig-we grabs the ship as it takes off, and gets aboard, but Gaston manages to fight him off just as they crash-land in the ocean. They’re rescued by a French Navy vessel, and taken back to Paris. They turn in the now captive Hig-we, Gaston confesses his love for Jeanne, and they are all hailed as heroes.
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