The film also features the voices of comedian Ken Jeong as space dog Gobi, Margaret Cho as Auntie Ling, and Into the Spider-Verse’s Kimiko Glenn as Auntie Mei. Over the Moon makes it look easy as Chang’e and Fei Fei, Hamilton’s Phillipa Soo and newcomer Cathy Ang lead an entirely Asian-American voice cast. Representation in storytelling and casting is an urgent point of interest in mass entertainment, and in animation in particular, where characters of color are often voiced by white actors. The legend was one of her mother’s favorites ,and Fei Fei believes it wholeheartedly, despite what her relatives tell her during the Mid-Autumn festival.

She’s convinced that proving to her father the existence of Chang’e - who is trapped on the moon and pining for her lost love, the great warrior Hou Yi, after hundreds of years - will stop him from remarrying after her mother’s death. What she finds is a glowing, fantastical world full of strange creatures spun up by the all-powerful spirit herself.įei Fei’s journey isn’t motivated by curiosity, but by grief. In Netflix’s new animated movie Over the Moon, the Chinese legend of Chang’e becomes a launchpad for a young girl named Fei Fei, who travels to the moon in search of the legendary goddess.

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