one4review | On 18, Aug 2026

Moon Team is a very good film that doesn’t exist. This is a show about its controversial, much worse sequel which is also a prequel. Which also doesn’t exist.

There are shows that are “high concept” and then there are shows that are so high concept that trying to explain them to people forces you to spend about ten minutes laying groundwork and one such show is Will BF’s Moon Team IIIV*.

*the roman numeral for 2, if you don’t understand roman numerals.

The show takes the form of a documentary about the said fictional film, with interviews with fans, critics and the director appearing on a TV beside the stage, all played by a green-screened Will, who is also playing every character on stage and acting out various scenes from the film, predominantly playing the “good” Price Apollo Moon, who is on a mission to defeat an “evil” space tax and assembles the titular Moon Team to assist him. That’s probably as much plot as it’s worth going into as there is so much going on that it would only get harder to understand the more it was explained, you really do need to experience it.

In a weird twist, this isn’t a show parodying a specific film that you may be able to hold onto for context – the show seems to think it’s a Star Wars parody, but the plots are so wildly different I couldn’t see that. It’s more just the parody of an idea of a movie that was a cheap knock off of Star Wars – again, this isn’t the easiest thing to summarise.

The show is bizarre and brilliant in multiple ways. The sheer amount of effort and attention to detail in the technical aspects of the show is staggering. There are constant clips on the TV linking the mini-sketches of plot together, dialogue constructed entirely from a parody of Orson Wells’ notorious drunken wine advert, multiple complicated audience interaction gags, including a working keyboard-glove that can type words directly onto the screen and a working joystick to play custom-made video games on the screen. There are costume changes, musical numbers, puppets and animatronic fish. It feels like a labour of love and it’s so perfect that it’s all for this show which is so incredibly specific to the interests and humour of one man.

Fortunately, Will BF does seem to have found his audience with this show and he certainly found it in me. I don’t know if I could recommend it to someone who has a lower tolerance than me for the obtuse and the absurd, but personally I found the whole thing hilarious.

*****
Reviewed by Tom

21:55

5th-30th

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