When The Hood finds and invades International Rescue's secret base and traps most of the Tracy family, only young Alan Tracy and his friends can save the day.
The year is 2010. Teenager Alan Tracy, sent off to a distant boarding school, is the youngest of the sons of Jeff Tracy, a retired American astronaut. Jeff, a widower, has formed International Rescue, and raised his sons to act as a secret, volunteer organization which uses highly advanced technology to save lives worldwide. Jeff and his older sons John, Virgil, Scott, and Gordon, who like Alan were named after the Mercury Seven astronauts are joined in this effort by Lady Penelope and her butler/chauffeur Parker. Their futuristic hardware is largely developed by a genius scientist known as Brains, who lives at the International Rescue base on Tracy Island, somewhere in the Pacific.
This film has come in for a great deal of criticism as being a travesty betraying the original TV series.<br/><br/>I suggest that many of those who have voiced that criticism have missed the point that this film is aimed at kids, as was the TV series before it. It is not aimed at nostalgic middle-aged men who were kids when the original series was made.<br/><br/>I am a nostalgic middle-aged man who was a kid when the original series was made. This movie takes on board everything which made the series popular and retools it into a vehicle which provides a hook for youngsters for a full-length feature.<br/><br/>There are many things here to enjoy: <br/><br/>1. Lady Penelope and Parker; <br/><br/>2. The depiction of the Thunderbirds and Tracy Island; <br/><br/>3. The monorail rescue; <br/><br/>4. The launch sequences; <br/><br/>5. Factoring in the Mole, the Thunderer etc. <br/><br/>6. Vanessa Hudgens, great early cuteness.<br/><br/>There are some things here to make you shudder: <br/><br/>1. The cloned older Tracy brothers; <br/><br/>2. The comedy villains - fell uneasily between villainy and comedy; <br/><br/>3. Ben Kingsley bringing pantomime villainy to The Hood. <br/><br/>4. Anthony Andrews truly embarrassing stammering Brains.<br/><br/>In between the two we find Brady Crobett&#39;s Alan (similar to the in-between position of the character in the plot) and the new, unnecessary, and idiotically named character Fermat.<br/><br/>I could have done with a bit more International Rescuing and a bit less chasing about on Tracy Island. On the whole, though, this is an enjoyable movie FOR KIDS.
This was very disappointing.<br/><br/>For *forty* years kids of all ages have been watching Thunderbirds on TV. So not surprising that someone decided it was time to big-screen it.<br/><br/>It&#39;s a pity that they just though &quot;ah - a big target audience, so lots of moolah&quot; and didn&#39;t also take the time out to think &quot;I wonder what makes a show that remains popular for FORTY YEARS.&quot; Someone clearly decided to make this a film for *young* kids, and ignore the fact that the TV series was enjoyed by kids of *all* ages (I mean, anyone still breathing!) but I have to wonder, even with that dubious decision, why they had to ignore the obvious.<br/><br/>For example. One thing kids clearly *love* in any TV show is ritual. That&#39;s why, whenever it&#39;s time to launch the thunderbirds, the TV show shows the *whole* thing, people sliding down chutes, bits of island opening, etc. So why then decide to gratuitously change one of the big ritual elements. The thunderbirds are, any kid over the age of two knows, the *machiens*, not the *people*. The *people* are &quot;members of International Rescue&quot;. Kids want to grow up to *be* members of international rescue. Only small ford motorcars want to grow up to be thunderbirds.<br/><br/>I&#39;m not going to pick up on all that is wrong with this - the list is just too long. But three more points I feel I have to make.<br/><br/>1) The *music* was a *major* factor in the original series. It was even used on the trails for the TV release of the film in the UK. Since the new soundtrack is naff, you have to wonder why they didn&#39;t just come to an agreement with Barry Grey and use the original music - would&#39;ve lifted it! 2) You would think that of *all* people Frakes would have known better than to be caught by the Wesley Effect. After playing second fiddle to Will Wheaton for so many years in TNG, you&#39;d think he might have noticed that whilst film and TV execs often seem to think you have to make a film *about* a ten year old kid if you want it to appeal *to* ten year old kids, not only is this clearly NOT the case (see above - for forty years kids have been enjoying Thunderbirds on TV and been happy to want to grow up to fly a thunderbird, or pretend they already have!) but also…<br/><br/>3) it doesn&#39;t work. My nephews are 8 and 10. They have been watching Thunderbirds tapes since they could prop themselves up in front of the telly and are major fans. They hate the film.
Thunderbirds is devoted to the principle that character and story are but rude interruptions to the real order of business, an endless display of profound vehicle fetish.
According to publicity material, the film is set in 2020, six years before the first episode of the series. This may appear not to be canon to the TV series, and in fact isn&#39;t, but this is not a fault of the filmmakers. In the Christmas episode &quot;Give or Take a Million&quot;, we see a calendar with the year 2026. It has since been stated that this year was a mistake by the propmaker and should have been 2065, the year that Gerry Anderson wanted the series to be set in, and is generally accepted to be the case. But where Alan Tracy is 21 in the series, in the film he is 15, so the year corresponds correctly. Yes, there are quite a few:<br/><br/>Characters&#39; ages: Many of the characters are younger in the film than in the show. As this film is supposedly set six years before the series&#39; pilot (ignoring the fact that the episode features International Rescue&#39;s first mission) then this is feasible. However this is not applied to everyone; Lady Penelope and Parker are clearly around the ages given to them in the show (27 and 55, respectively) and Brains is also older - although that may because of another change; he&#39;s a father!<br/><br/>New characters: Yes, Brains has a son in the film, Fermat. Along with Onaha, wife of Jeff Tracy&#39;s manservant Kyrano, these two characters were created specifically for the film, as were The Hood&#39;s associates, Transom and Mullion.<br/><br/>Pilots: Jeff Tracy is seen flying Thunderbird 2 at the beginning of the film, with Virgil seemingly his co-pilot. Virgil is never seen flying her solo. The most obvious change is that Gordon Tracy is shown here to be the pilot of space rocket Thunderbird 3. In the series he was the aquanaut in charge of submarine Thunderbird 4, a role apparently given to Alan at the end of the film, going by the yellow colour-coding of his International Rescue uniform. <br/><br/>The Hood: Sir Ben Kingsley&#39;s character actually calls himself by this name in the film, as well as being referred to as The Hood by other characters. The Hood was never mentioned by name in the TV series, only in other media such as comics and publicity material.<br/><br/>FAB 1: Lady Penelope&#39;s famous pink Rolls Royce limousine of the TV show becomes a modified Ford Thunderbird car in the film. This is due to BMW, holders of the Rolls Royce marque, refusing to allow the filmmakers to use it. The new version does bear some trademarks of its TV counterpart, such as the glass canopy, six-wheel drive, and &quot;special features&quot; - although the version in the series did not fly…<br/><br/>Tin-Tin&#39;s powers: Unlike the TV series, in the film Tin-tin is shown to possess and use the same telekinetic/mind control powers as her uncle, The Hood.<br/><br/>Uniforms: International Rescue uniforms are completely different in the film than the TV series, although they are colour-coded like those in the show. Also, there are no hats, although an ice cream seller (a cameo by the film&#39;s visual effects supervisor, Mark Nelmes) can be briefly seen to be wearing a white version of the original TV series hat in the sequence where Thunderbird 2 lands in London. Jonathan Frakes confirms in the DVD commentary that this was a deliberate reference.<br/><br/> This footage was originally part of the sequence in the film where FAB1 approaches Tracy Island by sea. This scene originally concluded with The Hood firing a missile and destroying the car, forcing Lady Penelope and Parker to make the rest of the journey in the pedalo, but this was cut, and the pedalo footage moved to the end of the film. Simple answer: because Ford paid a lot of money for them to be there! The company struck a product placement deal with the filmmakers, which included Lady Penelope&#39;s car, FAB 1, being a modified Ford Thunderbird as opposed to the original series&#39; Rolls Royce, though this was as much the fault of the marque holder, BMW, not allowing it to be used. The placement of Ford vehicles throughout the film is so blatant and almost absurdly extensive that director Jonathan Frakes even suggests on his DVD commentary that it is detrimental to the film as a whole. He has a point.
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