
The year is 2010. Teenager Alan Tracy, sent off to a distant boarding school, is the youngest of the sons of Jeff Tracy, a retired American astronaut. Jeff, a widower, has formed International Rescue, and raised his sons to act as a secret, volunteer organization which uses highly advanced technology to save lives worldwide. Jeff and his older sons John, Virgil, Scott, and Gordon, who like Alan were named after the Mercury Seven astronauts are joined in this effort by Lady Pe... (Full plot summary below)
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The year is 2010. Teenager Alan Tracy, sent off to a distant boarding school, is the youngest of the sons of Jeff Tracy, a retired American astronaut. Jeff, a widower, has formed International Rescue, and raised his sons to act as a secret, volunteer organization which uses highly advanced technology to save lives worldwide. Jeff and his older sons John, Virgil, Scott, and Gordon, who like Alan were named after the Mercury Seven astronauts are joined in this effort by Lady Penelope and her butler/chauffeur Parker. Their futuristic hardware is largely developed by a genius scientist known as Brains, who lives at the International Rescue base on Tracy Island, somewhere in the Pacific.
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| Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionBob TownsendThunderbirds is another movie that feeds the notion that Hollywood knows how to take the oddest and oldest of material and make it look spectacular -- even if the final product is as empty as a dummy's head. |
| Kansas City StarDan LybargerIt doesn't take long to miss the puppets from the original show. |
| San Francisco ChroniclePeter HartlaubA fun afternoon for preteen moviegoers that has just enough charm, humor and game- for-anything actors to keep parents halfway interested as well. |
| Entertainment SpectrumVince KoehlerKids at the screening I attended loved the film and adults found it quite interesting. It reminded me of the "Spy Kids" movies. |
| Seattle TimesTom KeoghThis Thunderbirds is too generic an action piece to be the defining experience Anderson's strange show once was. |
| Boston GlobeTy BurrWhen all is said and done, the movie's a steaming plate of corn -- and, indeed, that's part of the pleasure. Myles, though, delivers a fine comic performance with no strings attached. |
| Reel.comSarah ChaunceyThunderbirds isn't a particularly good movie. But...this film actually says something - however heavy-handedly - about responsibility and teamwork. |
| Arizona RepublicRandy CordovaA charmless, leaden tale that never gets off the ground, even when its characters soar through the air. |
| Reel Film ReviewsDavid NusairThunderbirds contains enough elements to please fans of the show while also remaining coherent to viewers who've never seen a single episode... |
| Dallas ObserverBill GalloThis special-effects-crammed action blockbuster is not rocket science. It's more like rocket fun. |