What makes it different from others?

Purely Joyful Movie!

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

A drunk staggers into his apartment and falls asleep. He dreams he climbs to the top of a building and flies to the moon, then falls back to earth. When he wakes, still drunk, he is in his apartment.This collaboration between Gaston Velle and Ferdinand Zecca -- Zecca plays the lead -- can be viewed as an attempt to build a film vocabulary, shots and images that could and would be used by future film makers: the clock with the improbably long pendulum, that would show up in Chaplin's drunk comedy, 1 A.M.; the flying dream that would show up in Porter's DREAMS OF THE RAREBIT FIEND; the fall past stars that recalls Melies' AN IMPOSSIBLE VOYAGE; the Man in the Moon that swallows the drunk, that De Chomon would reuse in his version of A TRIP TO THE MOON. These and others would be used and reused by others for the next few years.They would be swept away in half a dozen years when the film grammar pioneered by George Albert Smith and perfected by D.W. Griffith triumphed. A new film language would emerge, with a grammar and vocabulary that had no use for them.