Review – Thunderbirds Are Go

I remember my grandfather taking me to a kiddie matinee of this movie at the Baron Theater in Pratt, Kansas, back when I was still young enough to appreciate such things. I remember loving it at the time. I think I even had a die-cast Thunderbird 2 for awhile. Sadly, I think now I’m a bit too far outside the target audience. Though some of the model work is still entertaining, the puppets are just hard to take. The plot – to the extent that there even is one – is trite. And big chunks of the art direction – particularly the nightclub sequence – are a bit “mid-century” by current standards. If you’re like me, you can muster enough nostalgia for the experience to make this a bit of fun. Otherwise you may well form a lower opinion of it. Mildly amusing