Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood (2022)

Jack and I loved this comedic animated memoir of growing up in NASA's Houston neighborhood in the summer of 1969. The music and social mores are spot on, clearly told from the perspective of someone who was there (director/writer Richard Linklater was born in 1961 and the movie's hero Stan is about eight years old), and complemented by archival footage of actual events.

Jack Black narrates as grown up Stan and Milo Coy provides young Stan's voice, with Lee Eddy and Bill Wise as his parents.

I'm grateful to the person who assembled this playlist on Apple Music of every song in the movie except one (the Season of the Witch cover by Vanilla Fudge), in the absence of a credited composer.

Linklater was last blogged for Where'd You Go, Bernadette? and Black for Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot. Coy makes his debut here and Eddy and Wise have lots of experience (Wise was in Linklater's Boyhood) but are new to me, as are most of the cast.

Rotten Tomatoes' critics aren't over the moon, but flying high with a 90% average, and its audiences in the jet stream at 82.

We watched it on April 26 on Netflix.