Karry Best movie of this year hands down!

CommentsXp Best movie ever!

Dirtylogy It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Zandra The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

WakenPayne I will be the first to admit that when I was about (damn, I forget the year) 7 or 8 years old I absolutely loved this movie. Now however this movie is terrible.So what is the plot of this movie. Simple, a kid happens to break wind repeatedly for the entire running time. Aside from that everything else from this ability getting him to score the highest note in an opera, leading to him traveling all over the world doing this (I swear I'm not making this up) and him accidentally killing another opera singer, to him being able to fuel a rocket and fulfill his dream of becoming an astronaut (as well as a hovercraft earlier on). I CANNOT BELIEVE I LIKED THIS CRAP.With a premise like that nothing could save this movie. I like family movies (for a fact I'm just starting to) just as long as they're entertaining to an adult mind. This however is only entertaining to little kids that like fart jokes. If you hate fart jokes then you'll find no entertainment value in this whatsoever, if you don't like fart jokes being the only jokes then you'll hate this movie.Now if you'll excuse me, thinking about this movie (and my liking of it) has made me cringe. Now I gotta stay away from all the websites I'm registered on for the entirety of today in shame.

Dave Hollinshead Great film..made for kids of a certain age.Maybe it should have been "re-branded" as Thunder Fanny in the US to avoid any misunderstanding that the film is primarily about fart.I am quite amused by how serious and this film has bee watched and how earnestly it has been reviewed. There are numerous reviews that have given it 1 star with the title "I couldn't stop laughing" and went on to justify the mark with "but because the film was so bad...it had constant repetitive fart references" but my favourite is this little Gem "Typical British though and basically typically European and other non American countries to have a "comedy" which has more sadness and brutality in it than anything funny. I do not recommend this film at all"It reminds me of when my 3 year old got upset at the beginning of Ice Age because the squirrel couldn't get his nut! In summary...Not a Classic, not a joyous exploration into the dreams and aspirations of 8-12 year old..Just a funny film about Farting

shez-dogg this movie is called thunderpants. it is about someone who breaks wind a lot. and yet many people seem to only see a boy continually breaking wind.the fact is, this movie has been misunderstood by most people. where they see a ridiculous and unrealistic story, I see a quirky, silly, and surprisingly un-fart-related tale of a boy trying to find his friend and them both fulfilling their ambitions. it does not show a story solely about flatulence; it uses flatulence as a basis for telling the story of the two best friends.the acting is second rate, the plot is suitably silly, and I love the 'green theme' that is shown throughout. At some parts, it is actually very sad (but surprisingly, these seem to have been ignored by most people). in my opinion, it tells the story really rather well. it doesn't take itself too seriously, it has some very big names in it, and it's really a shame that no-one seems to get it.8/10

annevejb Spoiler as some prefer stories to just be stories and Thunderpants can be very nice just as that. I purchased the DVD as it is early Anna Popplewell, I was impressed by her in The Little Vampire. I tend to cringe at features that have lots of bad language, so the reviews here gave me qualms, but I found the language to be * mostly * no problem at all. It is mostly very 'elementary school' level language and humour. Rupert's acting style underlining that. Some cringe at such, I cringe at other. This will not be for everyone, but I find it to be very appropriate humour in this particular story. The bad language exception is one I solve by trying to look the other way. Holy mackerel, mullet and cod. One of the main characters of the final scenes is a religious fundamentalist of the praise the lord type, just his praises are a real pain. My guess is that the storyteller got carried away by personal politics and worked to stop this from being a comedy that can transcend borders. Uncle Buck was slightly worse. These two do not attempt to transcend borders or build bridges, that is left to the viewer. Thunderpants could easily have had some fundamentalists really loving potty humour. Some, but maybe not so many. Could be that Thunderpants and Uncle Buck both try to tell their individual story well, then look to Heathers in a wrong sort of way and misuse Heathers by allowing it to be inspiration to give their own work disease. With both I need to 'look the other way' in a very specific and careful way. In this case I then try to say clearly what I feel the problem to be. I experience Thunderpants as more of a parable than most fiction. I now doubt that some of the bad reviews stem from objections to the symbolic language, such as the abundance of Morris Minors in racing green, a complex English symbolism. I interpret that symbol as not so much including a reference to a mini skirt, which it can, but more to a traditional dance form that includes a stick and a bladder. The dance is also referred to in the fairground scene of Ian Fleming's Chitty Chitty Bang Bang of 1968, the old bamboo. I read the dance as including allusions to an English form of ? Penada, penar, penado? I interpret the execution, my DVD commentary mentions more than one, as referring to a very real English reality. I say that as an underclass. Even more, I was drawn to Apollo 13 of 1995 as it is an Emily Ann Lloyd, but was disenchanted by how the director turned much of the reality upside down. That messes up my appreciation of Grinch of 2000, which in itself is quality. This 2002 feature feels like a parable about that sort of turning upside down, as if Thunderpants Are Go to coming to the defence of the realities of the Apollo 13 flight and to a lot more too. This story gets big things wrong and big things right. There is not much Anna in this feature. I still rate it a lot. Even more than Narnia. When I manage to look the other way, cheek turned. Predictably, there is a region 2 version of this UK feature, just I could not find it when I purchased.