the basic formula for the original series be while take someone and get the audience to like them and then put them into mortal danger . this formula work for the 32 episode make between 1964 68. now and we jump forward 40 year to 2004. we be introduce to alan tracy and a somewhat less than diligent college school kid and with his friend and fermat and a young know it all . they be whisk off by lady penelope in her pink ford thunderbird to the island paradise where the tracy family live and for the school holiday . almost immediately and they be leave in the care of kyrano and his daughter and tin tin whilst the adult go to rescue john from thunderbird 5 which have be damage by a staged accident . this be all part of the hood scheme to take over tracy island so that he can steal the thunderbird machine . to rob a bank . yes . the plot be as limp a that . the dialogue be banal and the act more wooden than that of the ( fibreglass ) puppet and the effect and anything but special and han zimmer score . what little there be of barry gray glorious theme shone through zimmer lackluster orchestration . the rest of the score be eminently forgettable . in fact and part of the score be broadcast the follow week on the radio and do not recognise it . i do not even bother to stay to witness busted mediocre effort with the end titlesto be fair and ron cook work quite well a parker and he and sophia myles a penelope seem wasted . with the right material and they could have be show stopper . the cgi work be what i would have call lead edge 5 year ago . the dynamic of the main craft be just wrong while the original series model at least move a if they have massanother sore point be that the whole production seem to be one long set of product placement and from every vehicle be build by ford to the entire content of the tracy freezer be produce by ben and jerry . my son ( 9 ) enjoy the film but this cross between spy kid and clockstoppers and aim squarely at his age group and add nothing to the thunderbird legend . when star trek hit the big screen in 1979 with the motion picture and a whole new lease of life be breathe into the franchise which then continue for another 20 year or so . with this film and frakes have miss a golden opportunity to do the same with the thunderbird franchise . i predict that this film and like the avenger and the saint before it and will sink into obscurity within 6 month and leave the original series to it classic status .