History WesternAnimation / OverTheMoon

* AnAesop:
** Losing a loved one doesn't have to mean you'll never love again.
** If you live in the past, the future will leave you behind.

* MirrorCharacter: Fei Fei and Chang'e. One is but an ordinary Earth girl, the other is a moon goddess, but they are alike in many ways. They are both struggling with the loss of a loved one, and because of their grief, they exile their still-living loved ones and refuse to accept anything new. They both learn how to deal with their grief and move on in life.

* FiveStagesofGrief: Fei Fei goes through this throughout the movie, after meeting Mrs Zhong, Ba Ba asks her if she was lonely during the 4 years without her mom, she immediately denies it, also when Chin is about to say "married" Fei Fei shot him down telling him not to say that word (denial); she hates and even lashed out at Chin when she was going to find the gift, claiming he will never be her brother (anger). When hearing the news that her father is getting remarried, Fei Fei hopes that by finding proof of Chang'e, Ba Ba won't marry Zhong (Barganing). At the climax of the movie, Fei Fei enters the Chamber of Exquisite and sees a vision of mother causing her to enter a stage of anguish (Depression). Finally, when the main characters are going home, the picture Fei Fei got as proof of the moon goddess burns up but she is ok with this because she had moved on from the tragedy of her late mom (Acceptance)

* ParentWithNewParamour: The conflict begins when Fei Fei is introduced to Ms. Zhong as her father's new fiancée.

* AmbiguousSituation: Mrs. Zhong's relation to Houyi. While she jokes at the beginning that her family has blood relations to the man, she shares a lot of his philosophy, his color scheme, and [[spoiler:the mooncake from her home town she gives to Fei Fei has The Gift hidden inside]]. It's entirely possible that [[spoiler:Houyi really did move on and have descendants in Mrs. Zhong's area]], but the answer is merely implied.

* SeldomSeenSpecies: Fei Fei meets Gobi, a Lunarian creature modeled after the pangolin, while on the moon.

* FiveStagesofGrief: Fei Fei goes through this throughout the movie, after meeting Mrs Zhong, Ba Ba asks her if she was lonely during the 4 years without her mom, she immediately denies it, also when Chin is about to say "married" Fei Fei shot him down telling him not to say that word (denial); she hates and even lashed out at Chin when she was going to find the gift, claiming he will never be her brother (anger). When hearing the news that her father is getting remarried, Fei Fei hopes that by finding proof of Chang'e, Ba Ba won't marry Zhong (Barganing). At the climax of the movie, Fei Fei enters the Chamber of Exquisite and sees a vision of mother causing her to enter a stage of anguish(Depression). Finally, when the main characters are going home, the picture Fei Fei got as proof of the moon goddess burns up but she is ok with this because she had moved on from the tragedy of her late mom (Acceptance)

* FiveStagesofGrief: Fei Fei goes through this throughout the movie, after meeting Mrs Zhong, Ba Ba asks her if she was lonely during the 4 years without her mom, she immediately denies it, also when Chin is about to say "married" Fei Fei shot him down telling him not to say that word(denial); she hates and even lashed out at Chin when she was going to find the gift, claiming he will never be her brother (anger). When hearing the news that her father is getting remarried, Fei Fei hopes that by finding proof of Chang'e, Ba Ba won't marry Zhong (Barganing). At the climax of the movie, Fei Fei enters the Chamber of Exquisite and sees a vision of mother causing her to enter [[DespairHorizon]] (Depression). Finally, when the main characters are going home, the picture Fei Fei got as proof of the moon goddess burns up but she is ok with this because she had moved on from the tragedy of her late mom (Acceptance)

* AsianLionDogs: Chang'e has winged red and yellow stone lions at her command. They're the ones who rescue Fei Fei and Chin when his rocket malfunctions en route to the moon, and seemingly give him the ability to breathe in space.

* ArtShift: When young!Fei Fei's parents tell her the story about Chang'e and Houyi, the tale is presented in hand-drawn animation, in contrast to the movie's computer animated style.

Set in modern-day China, as a little girl, Fei Fei (Cathy Ang) was told the tragic love story of the goddess Chang'e (Creator/PhillipaSoo) and the archer Houyi by her mother, and how the lovers were separated when the potion that the goddess had consumed trapped her on the moon. Years after her mother's passing, Fei Fei is determined to build a rocket ship to fly to the moon and find Chang'e... but her destination isn't quite what she was expecting.