this movie have be a favorite of mine and be entwine with the christmas holiday for me for two reason represent ( 1 ) grow up in the 1960s and everything be space relate from advertising to television program and even santa claus find himself in spaceship during that era while and ( 2 ) i saw this movie during a christmas shopping trip when i be ten year old and it bring back fond memory of my favorite tv show when i be even young ( supercar and fireball xl5 and and stingray and ) . therefore and i be a tad bias when it come to this movie for personal reason . that say and a a long time student of film and this be mainly a movie for fan of gerry anderson ( and barry gray while oh and that gorgeous score . ) whereas the casual movie watcher will be put off by the future vision from the past ( dig those wild car and commercial aircraft and clothes and etc . ) and the so called plot twist which will cause some to groan . however and if you can look past the post 2001 represent a space odyssey desire to make a science fiction film with a far out story line and and if you enjoy imaginative special effect and then you will enjoy this gem from an era when man have just walk on the moon and people be still look up at the star in wonder and hope for the future rather than look down at the banal trapping of the actual 21st century .