Pluskylang Great Film overall

Lightdeossk Captivating movie !

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Murphy Howard I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Luxor imdb Extract from Gerry Anderson's interview at BBC in 2008 : http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7655589.stmReporter : You were reportedly unhappy with the Thunderbirds film that was released in 2004. How do you feel about it now?Gerry Anderson : I was bitterly upset about that because I had been invited by the producer to discuss the possibility of acting as a consultant. But a few days later I had a letter saying: "I'm terribly sorry but we've got enough creative people on the payroll so we can't offer you anything." Four weeks before the premiere I got a call from Universal Pictures saying they would pay me $750,000 (£432,000) for me to attend and I turned it down. I could've done with that, but I couldn't bring myself to accept it and make false reports about it. I didn't go to see it, but about three months after somebody gave me a DVD and I watched it on my own. I thought it was disgraceful that such a huge amount of money was spent with people who had no idea what Thunderbirds was about and what made it tick.

Kayley Fisher They had to do it, didn't they? The American's HAD to take one of our classics, up the budget by $50000000 and turn it into an action title. Look, there's a moral in all of this - stop stealing our stuff. You guys can create extremely good movies when you want to. I mean, my favorite movie of all time is The Godfather Part I. That's American.Don't steal our stuff. We let the Aussies do it because all they want are game shows. You tried with Red Dwarf and that was bad enough. I mean, we hardly go around stealing F.R.I.E.N.D.S now do we?Okay, I'm fourteen. I guess that I'm too OLD for the target market of this film. I have seen the entire 60's series (which I love to pieces) and both Supermarionation movie... and then I saw this.Oh. My. Gosh.What an abomination! I mean, Alan is such a little brat in the film. I have a major crush on the marionette (who by the way is better looking than this guy) and the marionette can act better.The entire film is a rip off of Spy Kids which was actually a half decent set of movies when you are eight. The movie would have been a lot better if they'd just shown us the Thunderbirds logo and slapped a Ford sticker over it. That's what this movie is, an advisement. Even Penelope's FAB 1 is Ford. No! It should be a Rolls Royce! Arrrg!The Tracy brothers are hardly mentioned, the continuity is laughable, the plot is thin and terrible, the acting is laughable and the 'jokes' aren't.Mel J said something witty about Brain's supposed son: (Yes, Brains' son despite this being a man who could surely never score a woman if he tried; maybe he grew the kid in a petri dish). They got names wrong as well. We never found out Brain's last name, only an alias.Jeff Tracy doesn't go on missions! His performance was boring as well.The Hood's power is very limited in the TV series to vague mind control. He never had a gang like that which were leveled down to a bunch of morons rather than a threat.The Thunderbird's looked okay, but they were way too easy to pilot. Unrealistically easy.The only three decent characters were The Hood, Lady Penelope and Parker.I'm giving this review two stars, one for Lady Penelope's performance (which was underused. She could have turned this whole movie around) and one for effort, I guess. No, scratch that. There was no effort in that. One for The Hood's performance then. He (Along with Lady P and Parker) were the only ones who actually had a shred of talent in this piece of filth.This movie is awful. Don't watch it. Watch the 60's series instead. That's a masterpiece. :)

Giggy Chambers I am sorry but this movie SUCKS! The story is uninspiring and the characters are not very well played.However I do think Ron Cook as Parker works perfectly. And speaking as a teenage boy I enjoyed Vannessa Hudgens as Tintin though her part was again, unexceptional.When it comes to the ships I have to admit they did a good job with each one looking quite good. However the scenes within the actual ships such as the scene where Alan and Fermat are inside Thunderbird 1 it is clear to see the strings attached to them. Unrealistic.As well as this the enemies of the film are gimmicky and quite simply, unbelievable.Would I recommend, no. Instead I would recommend the watching of the original series of Thunderbirds. Avoid this particular movie.

stargirlsnr I enjoyed this movie with my siblings when we bought it, but my parents only tolerated it. It's understandable since this was obviously written for younger children. You may say I don't know what I'm talking about since I haven't seen the original TV series but for me, I can't get past the fact that the characters were played by puppets. Blame it on my generation if you want but the Thunderbirds was far more entertaining.Yes they could have made the special effects better and developed the characters better. The continuity errors were horrible! Still it made for good laughs for my family. I loved how dramatic it was. I mean it's not new that heroes get hurt and it appears that they have died but they are miraculously revived, but their are just parts of the movie that pulled me in and made me care about the characters.There were also parts that pulled me out of the story as well however. The sappy romance between Tintin and Alan is an example. You can totally tell from the beginning that they'll end up together. Thankfully there was no kissing. It's a kid's movie after all and you shouldn't expect kids who have only just started to like each other to kiss right away! I enjoyed the jokes in it and my family would just randomly quote the movie and start laughing especially if the joke was relevant to what we were doing at that moment. We also memorized the song for the ending credits (Thunderbirds Are GO) and sang it all the time.Yes it could have been made better, cooler, faster, maturer, all that jazz, but can't we also enjoy it for the amount of work that undoubtedly went into this movie as all movies. Anyone who's made a movie will know what I'm talking about. I think it wouldn't hurt for them to try again. Most people didn't even see the 1960's version or the 2004 version so if the movie was remade better and more widely advertised, it would be a big hit. There is a lot of potential in this story.