Thunderbirds (2004)

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Studio: Action Underwater Studios Ltd
Studio: Pinewood Studios, London, England
Studio: Synxspeed Post Production Ltd
Studio: Sync Or Swim
Studio: Redline Sound Studios
Studio: Universal Pictures
Rating: PG
Release Date: Jul 30, 2004
Running Time: 87 mins.
Country Of Origin: United Kingdom
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In a family of heroes, Alan Tracy was always being left out. While his father, billionaire and former astronaut Jeff Tracy and his four elder brothers are busy saving the world, Alan's biggest challenge is saving his grade point average at boarding school. And what's worse, he can't even tell his schoolmates that his dad and brothers are better known as the fearless adventurers behind the top-secret organization International Rescue--called in to save those in need whenever disaster strikes. Alan dreams of one day joining his close-knit family in their global vocation and even getting into the driver's seat of one of the awesome, incredible machines the Tracys' utilize in their life-saving work; the Thunderbirds. Back home on Tracy Island--a secret oasis in the South Pacific and headquarters to International Rescue--Alan and his friends, the brainy Fermat and the adventurous Tin-Tin, are left behind as Jeff Tracy and his elder sons are deployed on a fake mission by their arch nemesis The Hood. Once the master criminal takes control of Tracy Island and the Thunderbirds, it falls to Alan and his friends to come up with a plan to defeat The Hood and rescue his family--oh, and save the world while they're at it.
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Frakes cut his directorial teeth on episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation, and his first feature film was Star Trek: First Contact, so he would seem like a natural choice to bring a cult sci-fi TV show to the big screen. Unfortunately, while he does an admirable job re-creating (and improving on) the original Thunderbirds' mod sets, cool ships, and special effects (which are fine, if a bit more TV-sized than summer blockbustery), Frakes can't seem to decide who his audience is. If he was… Continued