Moon Man

MOON MAN is based on the Tomi Ungerer book of the same name, and Ungerer provides a lilting voice-over narration. His Moon Man looks down on Earth from above, scrunched in the shape of his spherical planetoid, and children all over the world look up to see him every night. His presence up there gives them comfort and helps them sleep without nightmares. But Moon Man feels alone and bored, and when a comet passes, he catches a ride to Earth on its tail. He heads toward an Earth that has been conquered by a power-hungry president now seeking more to conquer. His girlfriend suggests the moon. When Moon Man's fiery comet hits earth, the president declares the planet's been attacked and makes scary pronouncements to the public about threatening extraterrestrials. Despite a worldwide search for him, the peaceful Moon Man stumbles into the lab of the man who invented everything, the solitary scientist Dr. Bunsen Van Der Dunkel. He befriends the harmless Moon Man and protects him from the narcissistic president. Echoing E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Dunkel does not want to lose his only friend, but he returns the homesick Moon Man by rocket ship to his place in the night sky because it's the right thing to do.