Wonderfully offbeat film!

It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

I loved Thunderbirds as a child and this new series which I watch each week with my three young sons is the perfect representation of the original ideas for a new era. There are homages to the past aplenty while giving us some new surprises... The Thunderbirds craft all launching together at the end of the series was such a buzz that the boys and their friends and cousins watch it repeatedly. Having such a strong female role on the team is important too - they admire Kayo and quite rightly so. Absolutely fantastic production all round (including the music, which my youngest son sings at full volume!) - sets, cartoon CGI, most of the plotting, voice acting... All high quality and a fitting successor to one of the most phenomenal children's shows of last century.

No review sentence more damning then: this could have been great. Combining CGI characters with physical models was a bold and interesting move, and the result looks unique and charming. If the writing had been even half-decent, this would have been a modern classic. It took me a while to find out who perpetrated the crime that is this shows writing because the writers are listed at the very, very end of the credits, after the caterer. For the record, it was Patrick Rieger. If the script had been higher on the priority list, someone would have noticed how cringe-worthy the dialogue gets, and how illogical the plots are. Nothing wrong with the message that you can overcome everything through the power of friendship (even if it is not true), except when a show spells it out first and then proceeds to cram it down the audiences sore troath. The show has adapted the action, graphics and pace to modern standards , but the plot hand holding, jokes recurring till the end of time, and the overt wise lesson of the week, are worse then they were in the nineties. The show can not even claim to be educational because of the gaping plot holes, questionable morality, and misrepresentation of concepts like AI, Physics, Computers and Politics. Sad to see such beautiful imagery and love and dedication to visuals made unwatchable by a shoddy script.

This new updated version of TB is something that even my grandson can enjoy. Looking back at the puppet version and remembering how much I thoroughly enjoyed that. I can never imagine ever going back to that version again. With today's technology in the re-make of a long ago TV series, is great to see that they have kept up with the times.So come on Lomax 343 you have to admit even for you this has got to be an improvement on plastic and strings - Oops sorry of cause with showing of an occasional human hand. I for one will never go back to the old Thunderbirds again.Really appreciate the new CGI version.

Having now seen a number of episodes including "Fireflash", which is a partial remake of the very first Thunderbirds episode "Trapped in the sky" I feel this is a good series which could get better, with some adjustments.Firstly there needs to be more background to the characters and to the world they are living in (this could well happen over time as there are still many episodes left in season 1 and season 2 has already been given the go-ahead). But this needs to happen soon, so that we can grow to like the characters and have an understanding of their (future) world. It's all too vague at the moment and is really just 5 boys whizzing about (loudly) in great looking machines. Yes, the original was about that too, but you were given info. right at the start, that Father Jeff Tracy had been an astronaut and that he had set-up the International Rescue organization. In this remake we are not told this. What we are told is the year, that there is a Global force which has col. Casey as one of its leaders and that the mysterious, villainous "Hood" is the Uncle of Kayo, and was somehow involved in Jeff Tracy's disappearance. Hopefully this will all be expanded upon in upcoming stories. And hopefully we will also learn more about Lady Penelope and how she became involved with the team, as this has not been explained at all yet. We don't need to know everything right away of course, but we do need some more information if we are to become involved as viewers. As it's not a continuation of the original series (Brains could not suddenly be Indian!) more info. is needed. And on that note about Brains I have to be honest and say I'm not in favour of the change to his character. As David Graham is back doing the voice of Parker, as he did in the original, I feel he could so easily have also reprised the voice of Brains as well. It seems very silly to change a beloved character, for no good reason. All it does is upset fans of the old series. The remake of "Battlestar Galatica" did a similar thing, by turning Starbuck into a woman! It seems the producers of these things do this on purpose just to make it a talking point to generate publicity! It does them no favours as fans of the old series are already against them from the start! And to say they just wanted to appeal to a new audience is incorrect, otherwise they wouldn't have taken so much trouble to keep it as close to the original as they have done. So it's clear they wanted old fans to come onboard also. Not the best way to go about it! Also questionable is the "Fireflash" episode which is a remake of the very first episode of the old series. I'm not sure why this was done-and so soon-was it a homage to the original? Was it a way to tell old fans that although Brains and other things are different, this is still Thunderbirds as they knew it?!! I have no idea, but as a lover of the original series it was nice to see Fireflash again, albeit in re-designed form.what isn't as nice is the new score. The opening intro, with the same countdwown as the original, is welcome, but the music is missing the power of the original, bombastic Barry Gray theme. And, yes, of course there is too much music in the episodes and too loud. But this seems to be the norm now with shows aimed at a young audience-don't let them get bored with too much dialogue just boom-out the music as much and as loudly as possible! No thought spared for the adults or parents who have to reach for the volume-down button on the remote! The look of the series, however, is very good. The CGI is mostly extremely well done, although the characters are a bit clunky in their movements at times. But that is a minor point and it could improve in time. The machines and environments all look great, which is probably the most important thing. (I have to say, though, that I did wonder where on earth Lady Penelope & Parker were in the opening episode. It was, presumably, meant to be an English country lane that they were driving on, but it looked more like they were driving around and around on a snow-globe type diorama!) So, although I feel there is promise for the future of this series, it depends on how quickly the producers start injecting more background info. into it, to get viewers more involved. Seeing all the machines flying around is great but that isn't enough-otherwise we could just play with the toys! Whoooosh!