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Capture the Flag
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Capture the Flag (original title: Atrapa la Bandera) is a 2015 3D Spanish computer-animated sci-fi adventure comedy film which is directed by Enrique Gato, of Tad, the Lost Explorer fame.The movie resolves around Mike Goldwing, a plucky, determined 12-year old boy, who is the son and grandson of NASA astronauts. His grandfather Frank, a once revered, but now forgotten retired astronaut, lives his days isolated from his family after missing out on his big chance to fly to the moon with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin as a part of the Apollo XI mission. When an eccentric billionaire sets an evil plan to fly to the moon, steal the moon's vast mineral resources, and destroy the American flag planted by the Apollo XI team, Mike embarks on a magnificent adventure as a stowaway on the rocket. Accompanied by his grandfather, best friends Amy and Marty, and a clever chameleon, Mike blasts off to the moon to capture the flag and reunite his family.If you're looking for the common game mode found in multiple videogames since the 90's, then go here instead. | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed: There is a late night show host named Jay Lemman, and Carson's two lackeys are called Steve Gigs and Bill Gags complete with the same physical appearances and trademark clothes as them. Also, the director of Carson's moon landing hoax is none than Stanley Kubrick himself who now cleans floors for Carson for failing him. | |
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Annoying Younger Sibling | |
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Annoying Younger Sibling: Mike's little sister, Tess. | |
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Older Is Better | |
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Older Is Better: The 40-year old Saturn V rocket has no trouble keeping up with Carson's modern, high-tech spaceship. | |
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Never Trust a Trailer | |
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Never Trust a Trailer: The trailer makes no mention of Richard Carson and his plans to mine the moon for Helium-3, nor that this is the real reason NASA suddenly wants to go back to the moon. Because of the above, the Trailer makes it look like Mike and Amy accidentally launch the rocket ahead of schedule. In reality, this was done by one of Carsons' mooks. The trailer makes it look like Marty panics as soon as Mike and Amy follow up on his request to leave him on the fence (see I Will Only Slow You Down above). In reality, he's fine with this. It's the fact that his pet lizard Igor also abandons him that makes him panic. | |
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Plug 'n' Play Technology | |
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Plug 'n' Play Technology: Double Subverted: Marty wants to connect his smartphone with NASA's rather old computers to restore communication with Mike and Amy on the moon, but is told this can't be done due to the huge differences in technology. Being a Gadgeteer Genius, Marty promptly creates an adapter that allows him to do it anyway. | |
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Villains Act, Heroes React | |
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Villains Act, Heroes React: The whole plot is kicked off by Richard Carson announcing his plans to go to the moon and 'prove' the moonlanding was a hoax, combined with showing the world that he has the rocket to do so. This prompts the president of the United States to order NASA to immediately startup the moon landing program again (which was actually scheduled for 2022). | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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Chekhov's Gun: The "moneybag" maneuver Mike attempts in the opening scene comes in handy during the climax, as does Igor's harness being able to transmit whatever Amy's phone picks up. | |
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Conveyor Belt o' Doom | |
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Conveyor Belt o' Doom: After capturing Frank, Carson ties him to a large rock, place on a conveyor belt that will drop the rock in a smelting pit. | |
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Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer | |
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The trailer makes no mention of Richard Carson and his plans to mine the moon for Helium-3, nor that this is the real reason NASA suddenly wants to go back to the moon. | |
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Throwing the Distraction | |
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Throwing the Distraction: Amy distracts the night guard at the retirement home with a rock so she and Mike can get inside. He ignores the first rock, but investigates the second one (which hits a lamp post), and when doing so discovers 3 residents secretly working on their own model rocket. | |
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¡Three Amigos! | |
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¡Three Amigos!: Mike, Marty and Amy. | |
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Training Montage | |
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Training Montage: Three of them simultaneously; we see the new NASA astronauts getting trained by the old Apollo crew, Carson and Gigs training for their trip to the moon, and Mike training for his trip to the moon. | |
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Engineered Public Confession | |
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Engineered Public Confession: Mike and Amy trick Carson into revealing his true plans, and transmit it to every television in the world. | |
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Bad Boss | |
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Bad Boss: Carson's reaction upon realizing he accidentally killed Bill Gags is to promote Gigs to Bill's position. | |
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Blatant Lies | |
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Blatant Lies: When Carson produces his fake evidence to make people think the moon landing was a hoax, a guy at a bar claims he always knew it was a hoax. When Carson is exposed as a liar, the same guy says he always knew Carson was lying. | |
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Surrounded by Idiots | |
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Surrounded by Idiots: Carson says a similar expression, replacing "idiots" with "space chimps". | |
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What Does This Button Do? | |
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Because of the above, the Trailer makes it look like Mike and Amy accidentally launch the rocket ahead of schedule. In reality, this was done by one of Carsons' mooks. | |
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Would Hurt a Child | |
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Would Hurt a Child: Carson has no problems making attempts on Mike and Amy's lives in order to stop them from interfering with his scheme. | |
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Action Survivor | |
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Action Survivor: Both Mike and Amy are shown to be pretty athletic and resourceful when they have to escape Carson on the Moon. However, due to being children, they never try to confront him directly in a fight, instead evading his attacks and tricking him into destroying his own base while he chases them. | |
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Never Smile at a Crocodile | |
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Never Smile at a Crocodile: When trying to sneak onto the NASA launch site, the 3 kids have to cross a swamp filled with alligators. | |
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Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? | |
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Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Carson is terrified of Igor, whom he mistakes for an alien. | |
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Can't Get Away with Nuthin' | |
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Can't Get Away with Nuthin': Amy laments how this happens to her when the rocket lift-off starts, but immediately expresses her joy at the consequences: | |
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Creepy Souvenir | |
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Creepy Souvenir: Carson carries a ring with a diamond forged out of the ashes of his late father. He even talks to it as if the ring were still a living human. | |
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Evil Laugh | |
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Carson cackles (complete with echo) on the moon after capturing Frank, which is impossible for the above reason. | |
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Moon-Landing Hoax | |
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Moon-Landing Hoax: An important part of the plot is that many people still believe the original moonlanding was faked. Carson uses this as a pretext for going to the moon, with the true intent of claiming ownership of it, harvesting a powerful energy source there. | |
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Calling Your Attacks | |
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Calling Your Attacks: Marty does this when fighting off the alligators in the swamp. | |
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Massive Numbered Siblings | |
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Massive Numbered Siblings: Amy has numerous siblings, cousins, aunts, uncles, etc. Following the return from the moon, it takes 'two' helicopters to transport them all to greet her. | |
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She Is Not My Girlfriend | |
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She Is Not My Girlfriend: When his grandfather calls Amy Mike’s girlfriend, both of them firmly deny this is the case. | |
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An Offer You Can't Refuse | |
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An Offer You Can't Refuse: During his Engineered Public Confession, Carson reveals that he intends to destroy any country that refuses to buy the fuel he's harvesting from the moon. | |
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Ragtag Bunch of Misfits | |
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Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: The main heroes. The president of the United States is understandably not happy that, instead of 3 trained astronauts, the mission is now in the hands of a retired former astronaut who never went to the moon and 2 kids. | |
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Big Bad | |
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Big Bad: Richard Carson is the main antagonist. | |
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Foreshadowing | |
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Foreshadowing: Prior to his Robotic Reveal, Gigs comments that he never had a family. | |
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Grumpy Old Man | |
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Grumpy Old Man: Mike’s grandfather. | |
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Fat Best Friend | |
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Fat Best Friend: Marty to Mike. | |
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Rule of Three | |
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Rule of Three: The villain's name is Richard Carson the Third; he's the third Carson aiming to exploit an energy source to increase the family fortune (his grandfather found oil and his father worked with nuclear energy); and the energy source he seeks is called Helium-3. | |
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Nice Job Fixing It, Villain | |
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Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Carson tries to sabotage NASA by making their rocket leave Earth before anyone boards it and the plan fails because Mike and Amy snuck in and Mike's grandfather went there to get them out. Had Carson not tried this, he'd have about ten more hours to get rid of the flag and anything else that might be used as evidence that the original moonlanding wasn't a hoax. | |
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Be Careful What You Wish For | |
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Be Careful What You Wish For: When caught by NASA guards, Marty demands to speak to their boss. Seconds later, said boss, who turns out to be Marty's Dad, shows up. | |
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Extreme Doormat | |
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Extreme Doormat: Steve Gigs is shown to be very unnerved by his boss' willingness to harm children, but is too subservient to do anything else than weakly complain. | |
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Fate Worse than Death | |
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Fate Worse than Death: Carson is ultimately left drifting in space after his lunar refinery blows up. That is, until his oxygen runs out... | |
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Trip to the Moon Plot | |
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Trip to the Moon Plot: The whole plot of the movie is about the protagonists and the villains trying to reach the moon first. | |
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Villain in a White Suit | |
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Villain in a White Suit: The antagonist, Carson, wears a typical rich Texan man white suited wardrobe including the cowboy hat. | |
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Little Stowaway | |
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Little Stowaway: Mike and Amy, though in Amy's case it was unintentional since she was only supposed to help Mike get inside the rocket, then leave again before liftoff. She gets trapped inside along with Mike and Frank when Carson's mook starts up the launch sequence. | |
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You Did Everything You Could | |
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You Did Everything You Could: When Mike feels depressed about how his attempts to make his family work failed, Amy points out that he successfully reunited his estranged father and grandfather after many years. Mike isn’t impressed and states that only made things a thousand times worse. | |
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Accidental Kiss | |
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Accidental Kiss: Between Mike and Amy on board the moonlander when racing to catch the last floating sweetie, due to Igor snatching it at the last moment. | |
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Vehicular Sabotage | |
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Vehicular Sabotage: Carson sends a henchman to sabotage the NASA rocket by making it launch ahead of schedule. When his grandpa tries to cancel the liftoff, Mike destroys the eject button of the rocket to prevent this. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: Carson's assistants, Bill Gags and Steve Gigs, are parodies of Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. In the end, there's a magazine called Tyme. | |
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Artistic License – Chemistry | |
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Artistic License – Chemistry: In the film, Helium-3 is a glowing green liquid. In reality, it's a gas, and being an isotope of helium it's also colourless. | |
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Corrupt Corporate Executive | |
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Corrupt Corporate Executive: Richard Carson. His motto is "Nothing's a hitch, if it makes you filthy rich!" He showed no regrets about accidentally killing one of his employees during a weapons test, thinks nothing of killing an old man and two kids in order to stop them from reaching the moon, and fully intended to destroy any country that wouldn't buy the fuel he'd harvested from the moon. Considering who Carson claims the motto came from, his father also was corrupt. | |
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Goofy Print Underwear | |
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Goofy Print Underwear: Marty has the classic white boxers with red hearts. Naturally, they get exposed when he gets stuck on a fence. | |
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Space Is Noisy | |
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Space Is Noisy: Zig-Zagged. The film tends to play around with this, as most action sequences that would normally have sound, such as getting rid of the spider-laser device attached to the hull of the Saturn V, you can hear the various attempts to get rid of it, though a bit muted. After said fight, space goes back into eerily-quiet mode again. Carson cackles (complete with echo) on the moon after capturing Frank, which is impossible for the above reason. | |
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Anti-Villain | |
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Anti-Villain: Steve Gigs works for Carson and accompanies him on the Moon. However, he doesn't do anything beyond helping him pilot the ship and mine the Helium-3. He's simply too much of an Extreme Doormat to stop his boss when the latter goes too far. | |
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Everybody Hates Mathematics | |
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Everybody Hates Mathematics: Well, at least Marty does. When Mike states his intends to hide in the rocket and asks his friends to help him, Marty, after first pointing out how crazy the whole plan is, reacts with “What the heck, it’s better than studying for math!”. | |
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Daddy Had a Good Reason for Abandoning You | |
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Daddy Had a Good Reason for Abandoning You: Frank left his family after being prevented from going into space by catching chicken pox from his son, Scott. Scott believed he did this because his father resented him for ruining his big chance. Frank eventually confesses that he did resent Scott for it, but was disgusted at himself for feeling that way, and he left to spare Scott from those feelings. | |
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Would Harm a Senior | |
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Would Harm a Senior: If it means he'll succeed, Carson has no qualms capturing (and possibly hurting) the elderly Frank. | |
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Puppy Love | |
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Puppy Love: Between Mike and Amy. While at first they are in full She Is Not My Girlfriend-mode and their first kiss is accidental, she ends up kissing him willingly (on the cheek) at the end of their adventure, during the credits, and both look adorably awkward afterwards. | |
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I Will Only Slow You Down | |
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The trailer makes it look like Marty panics as soon as Mike and Amy follow up on his request to leave him on the fence (see I Will Only Slow You Down above). In reality, he's fine with this. It's the fact that his pet lizard Igor also abandons him that makes him panic. | |
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Artistic License – Space | |
| Capture the Flag / int_e6558beb | comment |
Artistic License – Space: The US flag is depicted as completely intact when the Sun's rays are very likely to have removed all the color and patterns from it since the time it was planted. | |
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Almost Out of Oxygen | |
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Almost Out of Oxygen: When escaping Carson's moon base, Frank cracks his helmet and begins to lose oxygen rapidly. Hench why he is forced to go back to the moon lander and replace his oxygen and helmet, leaving Mike and Amy to take on Carson themselves. He barely makes it in time. | |
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Malicious Misnaming | |
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Malicious Misnaming: The 'director' of Carson's fake moon-landing is a janitor whose name tag reads "Guillermo" but Carson dismissively calls him "Jose". | |
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Surfer Dude | |
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Surfer Dude: Mike is a kid example of the trope. | |
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Capture the Flag | |
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Capture the Flag: Exaggerated, since the flag that the heroes and villains compete to get is the one originally planted on the moon by the Apollo XI crew. On a smaller scale, in their first scene, Mike, Amy and Marty are participating in a Capture the Flag surfing competition against another team, but lose. | |
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Running Gag | |
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Running Gag: Tess asking every old man she sees in the retirement home and at NASA if he's her grandfather. | |
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Team Pet | |
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Team Pet: Igor, a.k.a.a Godzilla, Marty's pet lizard. | |
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Gadgeteer Genius | |
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Gadgeteer Genius: Marty. He even manages to make an improvised communication system by hooking up his cell phone to the old NASA computers, and the various tools he installed in Igor's backpack help safe the day. | |
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Brick Joke | |
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Brick Joke: Mike convinces Amy to help him by suggesting she could become the first woman in the moon. The epilogue shows a magazine cover describing her as such. | |
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