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SUPERMARIONATION"! The opening sequence ofThunderbirdsis itself a masterclass in Gerry Anderson's marionette hyperbole: who else would dare to make a virtue out of the fact that...
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Four action-packed episodes from Gerry Anderson's digitally restored fantasy adventure ... more
series.The year is 2065. The location is a secret island base. The Tracy family run International Rescue - a top secret organisation whose ongoing mission is to aid ...
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while carrying atomic weapon blueprints. Lady Penelope is hot on the scent but is soon in great danger when she finds herself trapped with a remote-controlled bom...
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SUPERMARIONATION"! The opening sequence ofThunderbirdsis itself a masterclass in Gerry Anderson's marionette hyperbole: who else would dare to make a virtue out of the fact that (a) the show is in colour and (b) it's got puppets in it? But everything about this series really is epic:Thunderbirdsis action on the grandest scale, pre-dating such high-concept Hollywood vehicles asArmaggedonby 30 years and more (the acting is better, too), and fetishising gadgets in a way that even the most excessive Bond movies could never hope to rival. Unsurprisingly, it transpires that the visual effects are by Derek Meddings, whose later contributions to Bond movies likeThe Spy Who Loved MeandMoonrakerecho his pioneering model work here.As to the characters, the clean-cut Tracy boys take second place in the audiences' affections to their cool machines--the real stars of the show--while comic relief is to be found in the charming company of Lady Penelope and her pink Rolls (number plate FAB1), driven by lugubrious chauffeur Parker, whose "Yes, milady" catch phrase resonated around school playgrounds for decades. (Spare a thought for poor old John Tracy, stuck up in space on Thunderbird 5 with only the radio for company.) The puppet stunt-work is breathtakingly audacious, and every week's death-defying escapade is nail-bitingly choreographed in the very best tradition of disaster movies. First shown in 1964 and now digitally remastered,Thunderbirdsis children's TV that still looks and sounds like big-budget Hollywood.On this tape: The episodes are: "Edge of Impact" and "Day of Disaster".
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Advantages: feel good film, effects are better than the origianals! Disadvantages: predictable
It was never going to be amazing we all knew it. It was watchable and wasn't boring but was very predictable.
It was nice to see the vehicles actually flying and the people moving without the aid of strings.
The story follows the thunderbirds after they return to there secret island to find out their space station TB5 has been badly damaged the team thinks its just a meteor strike but unknown to them master criminal The Hood did it so that the thunderbirds left the island and he could take it over, using the power of his mind he makes brain work for him. however he hasn't realised that Alan, Tin Tin and Fermat are still on the island and there not about to give it up.
Brady Corbet plays Alan Tracy one of the three youngsters who go about saving Tracy island hes helped by Soren Fulton who plays Fermat a brilliant character ...
curiousG2 04.03.2007 (05.03.2007)
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful Review of Thunderbirds (DVD)
Advantages: Story okay for kids, humour brilliant for adults Disadvantages: Okay so the plot's weak.. .but who cares?!?!?
International Rescue. They go around the world rescuing people from natual and other catastrophes in their five hi-tech craft called "Thunderbirds" - numbered one to five. These craft have different abilities - one is actually a space station, one an underwater craft, one a rocket ship, etc. That should give you enough of an idea about the original to understand the rest of my review - if it doesn't, let me know!
One of the main potential problems is that the main characters - Jeff Tracy and his sons - are? well, boring. However, the scriptwriters wisely chose to all but leave them out of this film - Bill Paxman as the dad gets a couple of scenes, but the sons between them have only about five minutes' worth of screen time! (John - presumably the son they didn't like - keeps a permanent lookout on a space station [Thunderbird5]. When it is ...
CaptainDisaster 03.06.2005
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Advantages: Good plot and dialogue. Filmed in 16:9 Sets the series up Disadvantages: Special effects are passible for the pilot.
(2249), The Babylon Project was initially funded by the Earth Alliance alone, but the first three Babylon stations met with misfortune. B1 suffered infrastructure collapsed, B2 was sabotaged, and B3 was damaged beyond repair by an explosion, B4, the largest and most expensive of the stations, disappeared, reappeared, then disappeared and reappeared then finally disappeared again in Sector 14.
B5 was the Earth Alliances' last chance to honour this project that they knew they could not afford, and substantial contributions were made by Minbari Federation, under the proviso that they could veto any possible commanders of the station, and passed over many high ranking officers and insisted on the appointment of Mars born, Jeffrey Sinclair, Hero of the Battle of the Line, where, at the moment of victory, the Minbari unexpectedly surrender to ...
FAB Fact File, Making Of Featurette 3 Minutes, Printable CD ROM Thunderbird 3 Cross Section, Original Brochure Artwork, Original Memorabilia Section, Fully Animated Menus
Aspect Ratio
4:3
Sound
Dolby Digital 5.1
Dubbing Sound
Dolby Digital 5.1 English
DVD Description
Gerry Anderson's cult sci-fi series made "super-marionation" popular because of its amazing and idiosyncratic puppet cast. The story follows Jeff Tracy and his sons--the eponymous Thunderbirds--as they fly around in their multimillion-dollar spaceship, answering calls of distress throughout the galaxy in the name of International Rescue. This collection contains the episodes "The Man from MI.5," "Cry Wolf," "Danger at Ocean Deep," and "Move and You're Dead."
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