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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 th...
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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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Penelope's friend the Duchess of Royston agrees to sell an expensive painting to a friend. On the way to delivering it she is kidnapped and held to ransom. Brink Of...
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TV seriesThunderbirds, and revolved around a new addition to the line-up of International Rescue's five emergency craft. The plot sees Lady Penelope, Alan, Tin-Tin and Parker as the only passengers on the maiden, round-the-world flight of a futuristic airship, which is hijacked in a bid to capture Thunderbirds 1 and 2. From the moment Alan arrives on a Bond-style jetpack, the film veers away from the TV show into espionage adventure territory, and while the only people International Rescue rescue are their own members, they kill a fair number of baddies. The global tour means there are more locations than ever, and though the story takes a long time developing, theDie Hard-on-an-airship finale delivers the most explosive set piece of Gerry Anderson's career. As forThunderbird 6, opinion remains divided as to whether it's an ingenious twist or a disappointing gimmick, but the movie's blend of model and live-action footage results in two superbly staged stunt sequences. PredecessorThunderbirds Are Go(1968) is also available, and the Andersons would make one further feature film,Journey to the Far Side of the Sun(1969).On the DVD: The anamorphically enhanced 2.35:1 ratio image is sharp, full of detail and boasting well-saturated colours, only the briefest moments of damage and some graininess revealing the age of the print. The film was shot in ultra-wide Techniscope, and there are moments were it is very obvious that parts of the original 2.74:1 picture have been cropped at the sides. The mono sound is powerful with no hint of distortion. Extras are the original trailer, galleries of behind the scenes photos and promotional artwork, though the highlight is the highly informative commentary by Sylvia Anderson and director David Lane where they note how they made this film and worked onCaptain Scarletsimultaneously.--Gary S Dalkin
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TV seriesThunderbirds, and revolved around a new addition to the line-up of International Rescue's five emergency craft. The plot sees Lady Penelope, Alan, Tin-Tin and Parker as the only passengers on the maiden, round-the-world flight of a futuristic airship, which is hijacked in a bid to capture Thunderbirds 1 and 2. From the moment Alan arrives on a Bond-style jetpack, the film veers away from the TV show into espionage adventure territory, and while the only people International Rescue rescue are their own members, they kill a fair number of baddies. The global tour means there are more locations than ever, and though the story takes a long time developing, theDie Hard-on-an-airship finale delivers the most explosive set piece of Gerry Anderson's career. As forThunderbird 6, opinion remains divided as to whether it's an ingenious twist or a disappointing gimmick, but the movie's blend of model and live-action footage results in two superbly staged stunt sequences. PredecessorThunderbirds Are Go(1968) is also available, and the Andersons would make one further feature film,Journey to the Far Side of the Sun(1969).On the DVD: The anamorphically enhanced 2.35:1 ratio image is sharp, full of detail and boasting well-saturated colours, only the briefest moments of damage and some graininess revealing the age of the print. The film was shot in ultra-wide Techniscope, and there are moments were it is very obvious that parts of the original 2.74:1 picture have been cropped at the sides. The mono sound is powerful with no hint of distortion. Extras are the original trailer, galleries of behind the scenes photos and promotional artwork, though the highlight is the highly informative commentary by Sylvia Anderson and director David Lane where they note how they made this film and worked onCaptain Scarletsimultaneously.--Gary S Dalkin
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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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Advantages: Story okay for kids, humour brilliant for adults Disadvantages: Okay so the plot's weak.. .but who cares?!?!?
I saw Thunderbirds without very high expectations - it looked like a cheesy kids adventure with no real surprises in store. Still, I was interested to see what they did with the concept of Gerry Anderson's vintage puppet show.
Taste the cheese. The cheese is goooooooooooood.
I wasn't born when the puppets of International Rescue first started strutting their heroic stuff no TV, and by the time I became fashionable again, I was too old to want to watch it. I have seen one or two episodes, but I'm not what you'd call a fan. With cartoons and the like being made into films with varying degrees of success, how would the puppets fare?
For anyone who knows little or nothing about the original series, it's about a retired astronaut (Jeff Tracy) and his five sons. They operate out of a secret island base (Tracy Island) as ...
CaptainDisaster 03.06.2005
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Advantages: Good fun, entertaining, well realised Disadvantages: Weak plot
Island and takes it over. While most of the Tracy family are stranded in space, The Hood intends to use the Thunderbirds to rob banks, including the interestingly named ?Bank of London?. But he hadn?t counted on Alan, Fermat and Tintin still being at loose on the Island?
So, no Oscars there for storyline, but it really doesn?t matter too much, when you can get lost in the film anyway. The sight of the Thunderbirds landing in London gave me a kind of childhood thrill, much as seeing the Cybermen marching through London did in Doctor Who.
Compared to the brilliance of Harry Potter 3, which I saw afterwards, Thunderbirds comes off badly, but as a piece of entertaining escapism, it?s a triumph. Sit back and enjoy it. I will definitely be buying the DVD, when it is released.
Long live nostalgia! ...
KarenUK 08.08.2004
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FAB Fact File, Two Original TV Commercials, Printable CD ROM Thunderbird 4 Cross Section, 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 Duchess Assignment," "Brink of Disaster," "Attack of the Alligators!," and "Martian Invasion."
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