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Thunderbirds (2004)
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Reviews Counted: 99
Fresh: 19
Rotten:80
Average Rating: 4.1/10
Consensus: Live-action cartoon for kids.
Runtime: 1 hr 35 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
Theatrical Release: Jul 30, 2004 Wide
Box Office: $6,768,055
Synopsis: Based on the cult British television show from the 1960s, THUNDERBIRDS explodes into the 21st Century with this thrilling live-action version of the franchise. Drawing on similar themes and familiar characters, director Jonathan... [More]
Starring: Ben Kingsley, Bill Paxton, Anthony Edwards, Sophia Myles
Director: Jonathan Frakes
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Reviews for Thunderbirds
There's enough special effects razzle-dazzle to distract the average ten-year-old, but the script by William Osborne and Michael McCullers is stilted and humorless -- a little camp might have helped.
05/18/08
Top Critic The plot abounds with holes, and the dialogue is often delivered in a bland, perfunctory manner.
11/02/06
What impenetrable, overwrought codswallop this one’s turned out to be.
02/09/06
A new and rather breathtakingly misconceived attempt to revisit a vintage TV show that did not under any circumstances need to be revisited.
07/21/05
Top Critic Here the problem is compounded by the fact that few members of the target audience (kids) are even aware of the original series.
11/19/04
The script exploits what's probably the ultimate male child fantasy: proving to Daddy that son is worthy of hero-size respect.
11/02/04
The script exploits what's probably the ultimate male child fantasy: proving to Daddy that son is worthy of hero-size respect.
11/02/04
The filmmakers, clearly never having seen the original TV series, sideline the spacecraft and reduce this debacle to what essentially amounts to boys 'n' The Hood.
08/18/04
What’s here is promising, but if the Thunderbirds decide to 'go' again, the filmmakers should involve the whole family, the way this story was intended to be.
08/16/04
The premise of the TV series has been abandoned just as effectively as the Tracy boys have been marooned in space for nearly the entire story
08/10/04
There’s no variation in tone during the gee-whiz cornball spectacle, causing the movie to meld together into an interminable and substandard action sequence.
08/10/04
Director Jonathan Frakes throws lots of bright colors and weird gadgets at the audience, but none of this hides the lack of imagination at the movie's center.
08/08/04
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