Thunderbirds Reviews

Fans of the Spy Kids series will enjoy it.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

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.

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The plot abounds with holes, and the dialogue is often delivered in a bland, perfunctory manner.

| Original Score: 1/4

Ultra-campy marionettes come to blah life in director Jonathan Frakes' souped-up but poorly written adaptation of the cult English sci-fi kids' show.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

What impenetrable, overwrought codswallop this one's turned out to be.

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Kids of all sizes and genders are going to be disappointed.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5

The acting is (pardon the pun) wooden.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

A new and rather breathtakingly misconceived attempt to revisit a vintage TV show that did not under any circumstances need to be revisited.

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Here the problem is compounded by the fact that few members of the target audience (kids) are even aware of the original series.

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The script exploits what's probably the ultimate male child fantasy: proving to Daddy that son is worthy of hero-size respect.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5

A glossy, live action adventure yarn based on the 1960's British puppet TV series.

| Original Score: C

An adequately entertaining flick.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4

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.

Full Review | Original Score: C+

Contains the depth of a petri dish that's already filled to the rim.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4

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

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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.

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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.

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Thunderbirds is just plain bad.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4

Lays an egg...could be last movie ever based on a British TV series.

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