Review of Over the Moon

I enjoyed the cultural aspects of this film, the animation, and the music. I would have loved to rate this film higher but the story was lacking in several areas. Her father and Mrs. Zhong are just getting married? And Fei Fei never even knew they were seeing eachother? Why did her father's fiancé put the charm in her mooncake in the first place? It is eluded to that the fiancé is distantly related to Houyi who originally had the charm; however, that doesn't explain why the fiancé chose to place a presumably valuable family heirloom in Fei Fei's food. It also would have taken one or two sentences to explain why Chang'e needed the gift but instead she just starts demanding it from Fei Fei with no explanation. Maybe the story would have made more sense if I was previously aware of the legend of Chang'e, Houyi, and Jade Rabbit. Did she only have so much time in general to bring back Houyi? And did she always have the power to beam people to the moon? If so for both, why couldn't she have beamed the charm/"gift" to herself long ago? Why did it take Jade Rabbit thousands of years to create the potion to bring Houyi back? Anyway, the music was great, the voice acting was wonderful, and I appreciated the animation a lot. I just wish the plot would have been more fleshed out.