When dangerous situations exceed the limitations of ordinary military and international security forces, the world calls upon the high-tech assistance of International Rescue - a mysterious band of fearless adventurers and their fleet of awesome, imaginatively engineered vehicles known as: Thunderbirds! Hidden from the world, Tracy Island, a lush patch of land situated in the remote waters of the South Pacific, is home to brilliant entrepreneur and former astronaut Jeff Tracy and his five sons. It is also the headquarters of Tracy's top-secret organization, International Rescue - and it is under siege. Master criminal The Hood has breached island security, intent on commandeering International Rescue's fleet of five highly advanced rescue vehicles, each designed to accomplish a specific task. Deploying Jeff and his four eldest sons on a mission, The Hood finds his plans obstructed by Jeff's youngest son Alan, who will do anything to save the Tracy family and the Thunderbirds. Helped along the way from his two best friends Tin Tin and Fermat the ultra geeky genius of the group, they hatch a plan to stop the Hood and maybe save the world in the process. Thunderbirds is a live-action feature film based on the hit British television series of the 1960s, which followed the perilous exploits of the Tracy family.

Sometimes I think movie producers sit in a room and say “Hey we got no ideas for any good movies, but we need to keep a presence in the field so lets find something that does not need to remade, should not be remade and dump it into the theatres.” That is the only logical explanation for the making of this movie, they had to know the movie would tank in the theatres, which it is already doing, but they went ahead with the movie probably hoping to make their money back when it hits video stores. They should have left the movie as a cartoon or better yet not even have tried to remake it. The movie is an atrocity from start to finish, ripping off more popular movies that didn’t do too bad in this genre like Spy Kids and mucking its way though 90 minutes of bad film making. Could the movie have been good, I doubt it; they would have needed a new screenwriter, new actors, a new director and a much better CGI team. The CGI it the film is horrendous and doesn’t come even close to making you suspend disbelief that any of the crap they use is real or even possible. It’s ok to have cool looking gadgets in a movie but they got to look real and be plausible. Then there’s the story, what hack wrote this pile of garbage. From the blatant rip offs of those who did it better and with more class to the sheer idiocy of the villain who just happens to posses superhuman skills that they don’t even bother to explain. It’s like they wanted to have the cool super hero powers but were too lazy to care to explain anything about them. This movie is a pile of garbage and a big fat stinker of a movie.
o stars out of 5