Thunderbirds reminds me of another adaptation of a UK sci-fi property, Judge Dredd. It is designed in a way that is extremely faithful but told in a way that repeatedly shites on the original. Why bother to make it look right if you're not gonna respect the characters or format of the classic series that spawned it?
On the plus side:-
1/ The iconography is maintained. The Thunderbird vehicles, Tracey Island, phe pink Rolls Royce, the International Resu=cue Logo, the control room and the classic theme music...all sends a shiver down the spine when onscreen.
2/ Sophia Myles* as Lady Penelope, along with servant Parker should have had their own movie.
On the negative:-
1/ Someone decided the original format (a disaster movie) wasn't good enough (or cheap enough) and so we get a Spy Kids wannabe instead. Wrong, wrong, wrong.
2/ The kid playing hero Alan Tracey is a talentless cock. Alan is written as headstrong, cocky and arrogent, but as he's the hero, we should like him and root for him. But we most certainly do not like this git.
3/ The original played itself straight, making it appealing to both children and adults. The movie is a pantomime aimed squarley at the kids (a mistake even Spy Kids didn't make). Anthony Andrews as Brain gurns like a Gurning Man while even standouts Lady P and Parker get cartoon sound effects superimposed over their exploits.
Avoid.
(*Sophia Myles 10/10. Posh Totty. Mmmmm.)
1 comment:
The original tv show is a classic. This film is pure unadulterated shite.
Thank god then for the oh-so-yummy Sophia Myles or I'd have had to poke my eyes out with one of my old Thunderbird die cast toys. Instead I just knocked one out for Lady Penelope. Yum!
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