I’ve always wondered why Scarlett Johansson rarely does “lighter” movies, comedies or romances or both. While I don’t think ScarJo has the range to be a Japanese tree, she’s a perfectly capable actress and she seems like a natural fit for a sexy comedy or a well-written rom-com. Maybe she’s saying no to those scripts or maybe those scripts no longer exist (a little bit of both, probably). In any case, Fly Me to the Moon feels like the first time Scarlett has ever done this – play a straight romantic lead in a fun, light movie. She plays a marketing executive in the 1960s who gets hired by NASA to build support for NASA’s Apollo missions. Her character falls for Channing Tatum’s NASA official. Channing could have chemistry with a barge. So… this looks cute.

These photos are from the New York premiere last night. Channing attended solo, I didn’t see any photos of his fiancee Zoe Kravitz. Scarlett posed on the carpet with Channing and with her husband Colin Jost. I knew Scarlett’s ensemble was Prada just from the boob-darts. While the two-piece look is better in close-up, this is so unbelievably bland on Scarlett. It’s custom too, she really wanted to look like this! While it’s not actively bad, it could have been so much better.

Do you think Scarlett ever looks at Colin Jost and remembers the era where she was married to the French guy who didn’t wear socks? Remember how they opened a gourmet popcorn shop?

Photos courtesy of Cover Images.