Lander Take-Off

Why does the lander take off look funny, almost like it was on wires?  And why can't we see any of the flames from the rocket?

The take-off looks strange to our eyes because the lander is blasting off against the moon's gravity, so it needs to exercise far less thrust than our Earth-bound perceptions are used to.

We cannot see any flames from the lander because the lander rockets used a combination of hydrazine and dinitrogen tetroxide.  These substances burn with practically an invisible flame in a vacuum.  So no flame would be seen.