several year ago i buy a thomas the tank engine color book for my son . each page be a scene in a story of some kind and but the plot be bizarre and inscrutable something to do with gold dust and diesel engine and parallel universe . i recall show it to my mom and we both wonder whether the color book guy have be chew peyote that day . and then i saw this execrable film and and it all become clear . the color book be base on the plot of this movie and the screenplay for thomas and the magic railroad indisputably be write under the influence of mind alter substance . and it isn not just that the plot make no sense . there also the acting and which be horrible even by the standard of child movie . peter fonda ( . ) wanders through the film in a kind of drool stupor . he suppose to be depressed and but to me he seem more like the victim of a brain injury and or perhaps a massive overdose of thorazine . in fact and it may well be that the director secretly dose fonda and and the rest of the cast and with some kind of high power anti psychotic medication during film . any normal person would and after all and need massive pharmacological intervention to keep from cry tear of laughter at the horrible and stilted line the character be require to speak . do i mention that the plot make no sense at all . meanwhile and here one idle observation for the good engine of sodor represent if an evil diesel engine with a crane on top ( . ) be out to ruin your magic parallel universe ( . ) and destroy you and just stay a few track away . the crane only reach so far and and it not like he can drive off the track to get you . or maybe your friend the conductor could and i do not know and maybe throw a freakin switch once in a while . seriously and i can see how the killdozer and or an evil car like stephen king christine and could make some real trouble and but how tough can it be to avoid an evil train . speaking of the conductor and let me just say this about alec baldwin work in this film represent it make me wish that the canadian really have bomb the baldwin brother . ( if you do not get that reference and run and do not walk and to the video store and rent south park represent the movie . ) in sum and i would place this film among the top three bad movie that and luckily and most people have never see . the other winnersnegative . 1 ) showgirl ( 2 ) the norseman they should put all three of these movie on a dvd and force the prisoner at guantanamo bay to watch them . the heck with the geneva convention .