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Thunderbirds are - Whoa!, 30 July 2004
Author:
shadowycat from los angeles
Nothing was more weird than the Thunderbirds - growing up my brother and I
watched
them. Then, a couple of years ago my boyfriend and I started to watch
annotated
Thunderbirds episodes on Tech TV. So now there is a movie.
It's very definitely a kids' movie, unless you care about the franchise.
What is interesting
was the amount of Star Trek influence. The film was directed by Jonathan
Frakes
(number 1 from Next Gen) and his years with STNG clearly affected this
picture.
They got the vehicles exactly perfectly and replicated them in a brilliant
way, and there
are a load of new vehicles that are all hella cool. The graphics (screen
displays and other
CG) are colorful and vivid, and the live actor cast are cleverly matched to
the original
puppets --- ESPECIALLY Lady Penelope. Her hot pink spy car that turns into
a private
jet rocks. I want it!
I guess it's year's Spy Kids. It's really cute and I had a good time. It's
an action movie
that'll get the good housekeeping seal of approval. If you don't care about
Thunderbirds you might not get much out of it, but if you do, it is not a
waste of time.
Beware that it's a little sucky and they just had to wreck it at the end,
but it's very cute if
you can get past the fact that all the good people are lily white, all the
servants are
ethnic, and then all the bad people are either ugly, misshapen,
non-symmetrical,
swarthy or otherwise dark.
I think its a great movie for kids on the action side, but the subtext of
the stereotypes is
something that I worry will reinforce racist/sexist thinking in our next gen
and for that
reason it gets a lower vote.
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