Parents' Guide to Capture the Flag

The backstory in CAPTURE THE FLAG recalls 1969, when Commander Frank Goldwing (Paul Kelleher) was set to board the Saturn rocket and land on the moon with Neil Armstrong. But circumstances took him off the roster, and that led to a decades-long break with his wife and young son, Scott. Scott (Adam James) grows up to be an astronaut, too, and he's called into action when the president declares an emergency that requires immediate travel to the moon to thwart Carson (Sam Fink), an evil business helming his own moon launch. Old timers, including Frank, are called to work the mission. When Scott gets injured and scrubbed from the mission, his 12-year-old son, Mike (Lorraine Pilkington) -- who has been trying to reconcile his dad and granddad -- decides a Goldwing curse has kept the family from going to the moon, so he stows away with best friend Amy (Phillippa Alexander) and their friend Marty's (Rasmus Hardiker) pet Igor, a lizard equipped with electronic gizmos bound to come in handy. Grandpa Frank finds the stowaways, but the hatch locks them in when the ship is sabotaged to launch on its own by the villainous Carson. Instead of destroying the mission, the sabotage launches Frank, Mike, Amy, and Igor into the stratosphere. On the moon, they fight Carson for the flag planted in 1969 and the rights to lucrative energy mines, and then run for their lives as Carson tries to kill them and, yes, rule the world.