Wow! Such a good movie.

it is finally so absorbing because it plays like a lyrical road odyssey that’s also a detective story.

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.

Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

I grew up with this TV-series. Perhaps I was like 5-6 when I saw it the first time. Totally loved it. I had most of the episodes recorded on VHS and saw them until the cassettes hardly were working anymore. To this day Captain Scarlet remains one of my favourite TV-series of all time, no actually scratch that, it is my favourite of all time. Even now as a grown up I can still see it from time to time. Just as entertaining as it always has been. I have seen several of Gerry Anderson's works like Stingray and Thunderbirds of course. But Captain Scarlet has always been his definitive highpoint for me.So about the actual series. Captain Scarlet must be one of the most brutal programs aimed at children. There is a lot of violence in it but also the story and themes are dark and serious. Characters die and a lot of them. Sure it's puppets but still very dark atmosphere over it all. There is blood and innocent people getting killed, in cruel ways. The action scenes are thrilling a brilliantly done. Like we knew from his previous shows Gerry Anderson likes to make explosions and Captain Scarlet is no exception. At least one explosion in every episode and sometimes things just blow up for no reason or unrealistically easy. So entertaining. Why are explosions so fun to watch? Compared to Thunderbirds that came before it the episodes in Captain Scarlet were shorter but I don't find that to be any major flaw. The plots are complicated enough and I feel that there is actually real depth in the characters. Far more than one would expect. I actually feel more for these characters than any of Anderson's others or even many other characters I've seen. Very impressive to achieve that in just 32 episodes of 25 minutes. Another proof of the greatness of Anderson. Could it have been even better if the episodes had been at Thunderbirds length, I don't know. The characters are great and so is the voice acting. All voices fit perfectly, which yes is partly because the puppets were modelled after the actors. But also the performance of the voice actors is probably the best in any of Andersons series. Captain Scarlet was the coolest action hero I knew. They changed the look of the puppets to more realistic proportions compared to Thunderbirds and Stingray. Some have pointed out that they don't move as much and more slowly. That is true but it's no problem. They use creative ways to get around these restrictions. In a way this style, not just the appearance of the puppets but also the slower staler movements fit the feel of the show. Having aliens as the villains in a puppet series could have turned out goofy and silly. Could have looked like the aquatic aliens in Stingray. I don't mean that Stingray is sillier in a bad way, not at all it totally fits for that series. Camp can work fine if that is the type of show. It's all a consideration for the filmmakers. Captain Scarlet like I said is of a different more serious type. Making the Mysterons this mostly unseen force and often just an intimidating voice was a masterstroke by Anderson. Less is more is a trick that I've often found to work for the better. Not always showing and explaining everything can make the viewer even more hooked. Just like all of Andersons shows the music is also genius and plays an essential role for the atmosphere and feel. Composer Barry Gray was an absolute master in the field. I can't explain just what a defining role the music scores and sound effects play in all Gerry Andersons productions. So I wrote earlier that the plots are just enough for the show. Still I can admit that now that I'm older one does recognise that a lot don't make sense and many of the episodes have more than one plot hole and a lot of events and actions by characters defy logic. But in some way this just doesn't matter. Too bad that there are just 32 episodes. All of Gerry Andersons shows are short in number of episodes. It seems like he got an idea and worked with it for a while, like a year and then began on something new. Instead of sticking with one like many would he made ten puppet shows. In a way it makes sense to do like that, try different things. Still I which there were more many more. If you have seen the series, you will understand.Could some of my love for this series be due to nostalgia? Sure I guess. But still I will say that this is an amazing show. Gerry Anderson was a genius. Captain Scarlet is a show that has it all: likable characters, intimidating villains, tense plot and cool action.

CAPTAIN SCARLET AND THE MYSTERONS remains my favorite of Gerry Anderson's many puppet productions, in part because its story is both superhero-esquire and scarily timeless. Envisioned as a Cold War fable and set in a world at war with a merciless enemy who views their cause as just because they are retaliating for an unprovoked attack, the story works even better in the post-9/11 era, where your next-door neighbor you've known for years suddenly and without warning turns into a suicide bomber/hijacker/terrorist without you ever seeing the change in them or understanding why they picked your neighborhood/office/bus/train/etc.The premise is surprisingly dark for a kid's show: Vowing revenge for an unprovoked attack on their Martian complex by an overzealous team of outer space explorers led by Spectrum officer Captain Black (the heavily processed voice of Donald Gray), the Mysterons--an unseen race of creatures with the power to recreate a destroyed item through a process called "retrometabolism"--abduct Black and turn him into their slave, then ruthlessly kill two more Spectrum agents, Captain Brown and Captain Scarlet (the impressive Cary Grant impersonation belongs to British stage actor Francis Matthews). Brown is turned into a suicide bomber--he literally blows up and nearly kills World President James Younger (INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE's Paul Maxwell)--while Scarlet is turned into an ice-cold assassin who abducts President Younger. But in a strange turn of events, a fall from the London Car-Vu breaks the Mysterons' hold over Scarlet, and he becomes Spectrum's greatest asset, an "indestructible man" who can recover even from fatal wounds and who can take on suicidal missions against the seemingly unstoppable Mysterons.The outstanding cast, led by Matthews and UFO's Ed Bishop as his partner, Captain Blue, and the incredibly detailed sets and intricate storytelling truly elevate this series far above the average Saturday morning kid program, and even farther above Anderson's already lofty THUNDERBIRDS. This is stark, harsh, dark, and sometimes scary stuff. The good guys don't always win--in fact, sometimes they lose BIG. The Mysterons are seemingly unstoppable, not caring who gets hurt or how in their quest to destroy the Earth (again, the terrorism parallels are guaranteed to give you chills, especially when you watch an exploding Mysteron take out an entire building). And in practically every episode, Captain Scarlet dies. Really, he dies. He revives thanks to his retrometabolism, but he gets really, really bloodied and banged up in most episodes; parents, please think twice before letting really young children watch this show.The fact that this show is now on DVD makes it possible to introduce the fantastic intricacies of this now-defunct style of children's' programming to a new generation. If you've never seen this show and like your superheroes dark, moody, and mysterious, check this one out. You won't regret it.

i loved this show it was brilliant my favorate is Captian Black another top agent who is still under alien control one has to feel sorry for him what a team captian scarlet and captian black would make alas this is not to be i hope that a film is made and i hope they get it right

While most people talk about Thunderbirds, for my money Captain Scarlet was the better show. The puppets were real life looking and for a programme produced in the 60's, the sets and models were very futuristic, and way ahead of their time.I'm every hopefully that either this show or Thunderbirds will be made into a movie with real actors as the technology today in films makes it very possible. However, as with any updated movie of an old TV show there is always a 50% chance they will mess it up.