Dangerous missions are the bread and butter of the Thunderbirds, a high-tech secret force employed by the government. Led by Jeff Tracy (Bill Paxton), the Thunderbirds are at the top of their game, but their nemesis, The Hood (Ben Kingsley), has landed on their island and is attempting a coup by using the team's rescue vehicles. He'll soon discover that the Thunderbirds won't go down.
Fun at times and tedious at others, it's an action-adventure fantasy aimed particularly at gadget-loving boys.
– Claudia Puig,
USA Today,
30 Jul 2004
rotten:
This is like a C-movie version of Spy Kids. And I didn't even like Spy Kids.
– Richard Roeper,
Ebert & Roeper,
2 Aug 2004
rotten:
A new and rather breathtakingly misconceived attempt to revisit a vintage TV show that did not under any circumstances need to be revisited.
– Amy Biancolli,
Houston Chronicle,
21 Jul 2005
rotten:
What impenetrable, overwrought codswallop this one's turned out to be.
– Derek Adams,
Time Out,
9 Feb 2006
rotten:
There's enough special effects razzle-dazzle to distract the average ten-year-old, but the script by William Osborne and Michael McCullers is stilted and humorless -- a little camp might have helped.