i have always think that most huge box office flop usually have something to recommend them and but after the remake of around the world in 80 day and thunderbird and i be begin to doubt it . for those not familiar and it base on a puppet show about a family of astronaut who use state of the art rocket and spaceship and sub to rescue people from various disaster ( fall bridge and stricken plane and burn building and etc ) each week . well and the puppet be go ( replace by far more lifeless teenager ) and and so be the premise only one ineptly stag rescue and a plot shamelessly rip off from spy kid without any sign of imagination and wit or entertainment . young alan tracey feel leave out of all the rescuing we never see the other traceys do because dad would not let him play with a real rocket until he pass his exam . ground on a beautiful tropical island ( some punishment . ) and his chance to shine come when the rest of the family a bunch of identikit bleach blonde who look like a gay neo nazi boy band without a single bit of characterisation between them be strand in space and he have to have the day by and er and run around the jungle and make a phone call and fire a hose at the inept comedy relief villain and douse them in gunk for bad measure . the good point be few and far between . one of them be that the film be mostly in focus . the other be they all get to go to the seychelles and which look nice . the bad point represent where to start . ben kingsley career lowpoint performance . the aforementioned inept comedy relief sidekick who would disgrace the child film foundation at it bad . the almost complete lack of action or effect in a $ 70m sci fi film . the terrible script and the lifeless direction and the odious moralising . but most of all be the fact that the film be so patronising in every possible way . forget the life lesson and off the peg sentiment and this be a movie aim straight at the under eight by people who know theyre make a kid movie and be constantly talk down to their intend audience and throw in fifth rate joke and routine that would insult most child who have only recently master the art of speech . this film could replace be send to bed early without their dinner a parent favourite punishment for kid . the big flop in british film history ( it do not even cover the cost of print and marketing ) and it just about watchable if only a an object lesson in how not to make a summer movie .