Thunderbirds Are Go is a fab (!) film and I love it, even the dream sequence. And I also love how the Zero-X crew had their name badges made of Dymo tape.
I saw this film for the first time at a Saturday morning cinema showing about 16 years ago and was impressed. The excellent Zero X theme was on my mind throughout the film and I found it online as soon as I got home and played it repeatedly. I have even used it in my own video.
The most creative and imaginative television productions ever made that provided excitement and adventure for an entire generation that will remain classic hits!
Read TV21 universe editions from 2067, as I did. Always a bit hard to reconcile the space technology differences between Zero X (my favourite) and Fireball XL-5 however
That brings up an interesting question: which Century 21 shows could feasibly exist in the same world, though not all in the same time period, of course?
It was, but 1967 was hoving into view, lurking, menacing. Like a genie, patiently waiting for the rubbing of the lamp. Ready to make its mark that would cast a long shadow across the decades that followed. A clock ticking, soon to stop.
I saw this last winter.Yeah.....I missed this my childhood,back in the late 1960”s!But,there were other Anderson show”s that I had missed,too!It was the fan favorite:
I remember seeing THUNDERBIRDS ARE GO for the first time, back when I got into the show back in 2004. I really loved the movie, it’s too bad that it did t do too well back during the original release date.
The Martian Rock Snakes were the one thing that always stuck out in these films for me. They were just creepy nightmarish looking monsters. I really wish they had come back in later stuff, like when they went to Mars in the remake show. I think they popped up in some of the TV21 strips, but that's sadly it. Always wondered if they were linked to the Mysterons in some manner.
If only the other Thunderbirds were in this film. And it was possible! Thunderbird 3 could’ve helped them on Mars, maybe have Zero X crash into the sea so Thunderbird 4 is needed, this film would’ve been more fun and a better introduction to the series if there was more I.R. action! I’m sure Alan’s wet dreams could take a back seat to that.
It did lose the 'Thunderbirds' plot a bit, but I suppose a feature-length rescue would have been rather difficult. A run-out with Thunderbird 3 was always a nice surprise, in the TV series. "Sun Probe" was one of my favourites.
Well while it may have not taken off like the actual Thunderbirds did, I feel that "Thunderbirds Are Go" is an underrated gem. C Considering the the scale of the Zero-X it adds to the ambitiousness of the production. Some say that the piecing together of the vehicle was a touch too long, but for my part, I would say with such a grand and impressive looking ship, it is a sequence not to be rushed. The chase between The Hood and the F.A.B Rolls Royce was most satisfying. Apart from the fact that the Mars landscape was the wrong colour possibly due to the fact that the creative team wanted a more sinister tone, it actually added to the theme, The Mars attack is beautifully directed and realized. Paul Maxwell particularly steals the show, I mean the movie as Captain Paul Travers and the puppet for his character worked perfectly with Maxwell's voice and added command to the character. And the rescue sequence near the end was rather like a re-imagined Fire flash rescue. Both of which were pretty impressive and the tension builds up brilliantly. All in all, I would say, it was more of a success then "Thunderbird 6".
The Zero-X does throw a spanner into the works when trying to make a shared 21st Century Universe for the Supermarionation shows, but as Dr Ninestein would say, 'I have a theory...' First off, I know this is a controversial idea, so I don't expect everyone to subscribe to it, and that's fine, because it does make a few leaps and ignores some of the TV21 comics. If I want to think that a shared 21st century does exist for just the shows and not their spinoff stories, I personally set Thunderbirds and its films back in 2026 like the mistake in 'Give or Take a Million' and the 1990s comic did. This way, the Zero-X is the first of its kind of spacecraft to launch horizontally, an idea that is backed up by how Thunderbird 3 and the Martian Space Probe in 'Day of Disaster' are conventional vertical rockets. Zero-X is then the first to explore Mars and our solar system beyond the moon. That means that when the Fireball XL fleet are invented later in the 2060s, they are improvements on the Zero-X design (also being launched horizontally) and can go faster and beyond our solar system, but there is still a transitional phase in which the Zero-X is still in use, and used by Spectrum to discover the Mysterons on Mars. Anyway, those are my thoughts. Feel free to disagree, because I know this isn't flawless and that Thunderbirds being set in 2065 is hotly debated. Great Primer by the way, I didn't expect to see separate ones on the Thunderbirds films. I look forward to the next!
I think there was a lot of revisionism for dates across series. By the time I started buying TV-21 in 1966 they were being placarded “universe edition no. (X) and dated 100 years hence. To me it made no sense that the back story for Jeff Tracy was that he had been a NASA astronaut and one of the first men on the moon, naming his sons after some (not all) of the Mercury 7 astronauts, that might have set a date more like 2000. I also thought the first Mars landing with Zero X (2067) to be hopelessly pessimistic when I was reading this stuff in 1967, but now that I think about it maybe not. By the time we hit Captain Scarlet things were more definitely set in the 2060s with the back stories of the main characters all having dates of birth in the 2030s. And of course Captain Scarlet appears to be set in the Thunderbirds era, as we see Zero X in TAG and also in ep 1 of CS (opening scene is tagged as 2068)
TV21 tried to deal with the timeline inconsistencies in its introduction to the serialisation of the movie during the Christmas 1966 period. The front cover had the headline "Now it can be told! Secrets of Mars spaceshot" and explained that details of the mission had just been officially released by the World Government, as if it had previously been top-secret, although of course in the film there was no hint of this, with reporters covering the launch and so on. So the first Mars mission did not happen in 2066 but some time earlier. In the UK, the government releases official papers (at year's end, just like here) under the 30-year rule. Suppose the World Government had something similar, but maybe 40 years, and you have the Zero X flight taking place in 2026, which is not a bad fit with your theory.
I remember watching Thunderbirds Are GO on VHS when I borrowed it from the library and although I thought it impressive, I always thought that International Rescue were shoved to the side a little. Good primer video!
International Rescue was shoved to the side in live-action the 2004 Thunderbirds movie decades later in favor of Alan Tracey once again anyways! And yeah i remember hiring out Thunderbirds Are GO on VHS from my local video rental shop in the late 80's. It made for a great afternoon for 90 minutes watching it as a kid, much agreed!
The Zero-X has been my favourite fictional ship my whole life. I even got to fly it in Kerbal Space Program. I randomly found the movie DVD on a shelf in my parents house, and watched it again (I know self advertising in yt comments is yikes, but I made a video with the Zero-X sound track of the mission and uploaded it)
Definitely, except for when the forward lifting body's wing tips fold down after it has already been lowered on to the main body. The damage to all those tyres would ensure that most of them had blown as soon as Zero X started trundling along the runway. Also, in the cinema version, on-screen credits appeared throughout the entire assembly sequence, concluding with 'Directed by David Lane' before the moment of take-off, but on UK's Channel 4. where the film is one of a regular group shown every few months, there are no credits whatever, relying instead on the ghastly closing sequence.
I miss the original Thunderbirds! So so much better than the CG ones. I once weren’t dressed as a Thunderbird to a ‘T’ themed party. When a ‘thief’ tried to goad me by saying “what did the Thunderbirds ever do of significance”. My response: “Oh, not much, only save the entire world on a regular basis” 🤣 😀🕺🏻🎥🏖🇦🇺
I remember reading the Zero X Century 21 comic feature. In fact, I think I actually read it before I saw any Thunderbirds episodes (probably connected to my age at the time; I was just getting interested in this type of material).
I have this on DVD and the novel. There was another version of the MEV in Terrahawks. I always wondered how the Zero X crew could see where they were going with that nose cone on the front of the MEV.
Let's just say that it was ahead of its time, and in marketing terms served as a progenitor for the likes of the Star Wars series. As much as the Zero X was stunning, as was the model work in general, the real star of the show was undoubtedly Barry Gray's music. How he and the Andersons got the cojones to persuade the Royal Marines band to play the Thunderbirds theme at the end, I will never know. All done in Technicolor and Techniscope - the "poor man's CinemaScope", but what's good enough for Sergio Leone must have been good enough for Gerry Anderson. It was good for me. Mind you: Cliff Richard Jr - pffffffffffffffffffffff (rest of comment intelligible due to laughing my ears off)
I loved this film. The Zero X and Mars Scenes were the best if you ask me, so impressive and creative. Seeing the models from the show upgraded to be on the screen was also so impressive and cinematic as well. And who could forget all the kick ass explosions? However, the only thing I didn’t like was that The Hood was killed in this film, he is one of my favourite characters.
Well thought out documentary to a great (underated) film makes me proud to own the Kino blueray releases all the more. Hoping that you do a follow up document with its sequel “thunderbird six” FAB!
Another interesting Primer. Had no idea this was being considered even before the series that spawned it was even in air!!! 😮😮😮. Remember my Aunt showing me a booklet from a Greatest Hits album of Cliff Richard & seeing this mentioned. Then I read the story of it in my Dad's TV Century 21 comics. It wasn't long after that when I saw it for the first time & was amazed by it!!! If it had been made in the era of movie reunions (thinking of Star Trek) it may of led to a few more movies & maybe show some kind of advancement in puppetry. One final thought which always up for debate. Do the Thunderbird craft look better in the series or the movie???. My choice would be the series as certain craft look a little...small in this movie. TB 1 & 2 look much more convincing in the series.
I will never hate this movie. But yeah, not making the Thunderbirds the main focus of the film is what really contributed to this film's failure. I would have loved if this was an origin story. Then you would have had an incredible franchise.
This is an enjoyably objective assessment of the movie that points out, quite fairly, its several shortcomings, including how little the regular characters are given to do. In this regard, though, the most glaring omission is overlooked. The Thunderbirds craft are the stars of the film, by definition of its title, so the least we could have expected was that they would all make an appearance, but where was TB4? With a more tightly-written screenplay it could have been patrolling the coastal waters during the second launch and thus played a role in preventing the Hood's escape. This would have been a high quality tv episode that instead was used to meet the contractual need for a movie by the considerable padding of the Swinging Star nightclub. In describing the dream sequence as largely unnecessary, the reviewer is being generous.
I think this is a great movie and have seen it many times. The dream sequence is something to behold and actually very clever to the point of almost being subversive. I do however, and this may raise an eye brow or two, prefer THUNDERBIRD 6.
I’ve often wondered why they only first land on Mars in Thunderbirds Are Go when there have previously been missions to other planets in Fireball XL5 when the Supermarionation shows are supposed to be set in the same universe. Does this mean they’ve yet to make the first manned mission to the dwarf planet Ceres‽ 🤔
Nice to see this. I was just about the right age when the film came out. My generation. I loved the film and found it developed into a proper film for the likes of me, who were used to the original characters, but, oh, I always thought the opening sequence of the Zero-X being assembled too long to engage kids really. I hated the dream sequence. Always did. Even now, when I see the film, I jump forward a few minutes. There's even a version of the film on youtube without the dream sequence. And Good for Bob Monkhouse for doing it for nothing after Alfred Marks walked out over money.
Восхищаюсь, мастерством тех людей, кто все это придумал и осуществил, как же мне все это нравится и на сколько был бы богаче мой внутренний мир, если все это увидел, я в далеком детстве...
As much as I adore the score, it's a shame there wasn't a bit more music to certain parts of the film. The descent of the Zero-X as Alan works to save it could've done with something akin to the Fast Music.
Gerry and Silvia Anderson's Thunderbirds will always be loved.
loved every minute even as a adult Gerry Anderson and Sylvia were legends
Underrated gem such a shame it didn't really succeed in the box office
eventhough i love the movie it would have been better if it had better pacing then a glacier
If the whole dream sequence had been cut - it would have been better!!
@@avenger67definitely, the dream sequence is terrible. Thunderbird 6 is the better film, although sadly neither are classics.
I had this movie. Absolutely love it. Thunderbird 6 too. Skyship one was an awesome concept
I was born in 1974. As a child Tracey island was my dream home... it still is.
Gerry Anderson the man who made our childhood absolutely Awesome with his fantastic vision and ideas
We were the lucky children at a time when our parents didn't have a lot of money but we had these wonderful programs on our TV sets back in the day
@@amandacerasale4679
Couldn't have said it any better. They were the days for sure. Take care of yourself with all this madness in the world.
Thunderbirds Are Go is a fab (!) film and I love it, even the dream sequence. And I also love how the Zero-X crew had their name badges made of Dymo tape.
Thunderbird 2 is my favourite Thunderbird. Also my Dad had the original Thunderbirds on VHS tape and his favourite Thunderbird was Thunderbird 2.
My favorite when I was a kid. Thank you.
One word to describe this Primer: FAB!
I saw this film for the first time at a Saturday morning cinema showing about 16 years ago and was impressed. The excellent Zero X theme was on my mind throughout the film and I found it online as soon as I got home and played it repeatedly. I have even used it in my own video.
The most creative and imaginative television productions ever made that provided excitement and adventure for an entire generation that will remain classic hits!
This is definitely one of my favourite films. Certainly take this over the live action film.
I loved all things Thunderbirds and all things Gerry Anderson Gerry Anderson was genius way a head of his time.
Imagine if Fireball XL5, Stingray, Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet had a Marvel-styled crossover!
The TV21 comic had a brilliant crossover with, Stingray, Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet
Gerry Anderson Cinematic Universe!
That be fun
Read TV21 universe editions from 2067, as I did. Always a bit hard to reconcile the space technology differences between Zero X (my favourite) and Fireball XL-5 however
That brings up an interesting question: which Century 21 shows could feasibly exist in the same world, though not all in the same time period, of course?
I wore my VHS of this and Thunderbird 6 out as a kid. It was superb.
4:08: Great shot of Provis on the Space patrol set with Marla!
I saw this film in the elevated cinema in Victoria Station (now gone ) in 1968 ,I was mesmerised.
Absolutely brilliant and well ahead of its time.
I thought Alan falling to the island was a nightmare I had as a kid. Good to know it exists in a actual film
1966, what a time to be alive - thunderbirds, a thunderbirds movie, the Beatles, English World Cup victory - what a year.
It was, but 1967 was hoving into view, lurking, menacing. Like a genie, patiently waiting for the rubbing of the lamp. Ready to make its mark that would cast a long shadow across the decades that followed. A clock ticking, soon to stop.
@@Sootaroot yeah it all began after they blew up the mysteron base...
I'd love see Thunderbirds on the big screen now!
I was 10 years old when Thunderbirds hit our screens in black and white loved the show loved the title music 63 now still luv it
I was always more a fan of thunderbird 6 as a nipper, but I absolutely loved the Zero-X and it’s theme.
I enjoy watching the film any time. It’s good fun and exciting adventure, plus the Cliff Richard sequence had charm.
5 4 3 2 1 Thunderbirds are Go ! It brings back memories from your childhood of innocents of no worries.
Will you do a thunderbird 6 primer after this?
I couldn't wait to watch this show when I was a kid, and I still love the music it's really incredible
Gerry Anderson was a genius
This should be interesting, i'll watch it! I remember being scared by the rock snakes!
I saw this last winter.Yeah.....I missed this my childhood,back in the late 1960”s!But,there were other Anderson show”s that I had missed,too!It was the fan favorite:
The line 'And Mars will go to war' in the song is eerily foreshadowing...
Calvin Skye - The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one (they say).
Eerily poignant 😯. Escpecially as Captain Scarlet wasn't that far behind.
@@AtheistOrphan 🎵“the chances of anythiiiiiiing coming from Mars-are a million to one-but still, they commmmme”🎵
@@Wessex90 - ‘Dun, dun, dah!’ 👽
On again on Film4 recently a real credits to all the crew at Century 21 in 1966.
The movie is best thought of as simply being an extended episode. Every regular episode has particular character focuses, and this is no different.
10:26 Great now I'm gonna have that stuck in my head for another three years
I remember going to see this when it came out.
as fan of gerry anderson i enjoy the programmes and films , only let down was hoping something better for thunderbirds 6
I remember seeing THUNDERBIRDS ARE GO for the first time, back when I got into the show back in 2004. I really loved the movie, it’s too bad that it did t do too well back during the original release date.
The Martian Rock Snakes were the one thing that always stuck out in these films for me. They were just creepy nightmarish looking monsters. I really wish they had come back in later stuff, like when they went to Mars in the remake show. I think they popped up in some of the TV21 strips, but that's sadly it. Always wondered if they were linked to the Mysterons in some manner.
If only the other Thunderbirds were in this film. And it was possible! Thunderbird 3 could’ve helped them on Mars, maybe have Zero X crash into the sea so Thunderbird 4 is needed, this film would’ve been more fun and a better introduction to the series if there was more I.R. action! I’m sure Alan’s wet dreams could take a back seat to that.
It did lose the 'Thunderbirds' plot a bit, but I suppose a feature-length rescue would have been rather difficult.
A run-out with Thunderbird 3 was always a nice surprise, in the TV series. "Sun Probe" was one of my favourites.
My very first introduction to Gerry Anderson was seeing this on video when I was tiny.
I remembered the rock snake more than anything else.
The Primer is accurate
Now waiting for the Thunderbird 6 one :)
The premise of space 1999 would make an excellent modern movie.
Well while it may have not taken off like the actual Thunderbirds did, I feel that "Thunderbirds Are Go" is an underrated gem. C
Considering the the scale of the Zero-X it adds to the ambitiousness of the production. Some say that the piecing together of the vehicle was a touch too long, but for my part, I would say with such a grand and impressive looking ship, it is a sequence not to be rushed.
The chase between The Hood and the F.A.B Rolls Royce was most satisfying.
Apart from the fact that the Mars landscape was the wrong colour possibly due to the fact that the creative team wanted a more sinister tone, it actually added to the theme, The Mars attack is beautifully directed and realized.
Paul Maxwell particularly steals the show, I mean the movie as Captain Paul Travers and the puppet for his character worked perfectly with Maxwell's voice and added command to the character.
And the rescue sequence near the end was rather like a re-imagined Fire flash rescue. Both of which were pretty impressive and the tension builds up brilliantly.
All in all, I would say, it was more of a success then "Thunderbird 6".
As a 80s kid Thunderbird's was the only thing is cared about
The Zero-X does throw a spanner into the works when trying to make a shared 21st Century Universe for the Supermarionation shows, but as Dr Ninestein would say, 'I have a theory...'
First off, I know this is a controversial idea, so I don't expect everyone to subscribe to it, and that's fine, because it does make a few leaps and ignores some of the TV21 comics. If I want to think that a shared 21st century does exist for just the shows and not their spinoff stories, I personally set Thunderbirds and its films back in 2026 like the mistake in 'Give or Take a Million' and the 1990s comic did. This way, the Zero-X is the first of its kind of spacecraft to launch horizontally, an idea that is backed up by how Thunderbird 3 and the Martian Space Probe in 'Day of Disaster' are conventional vertical rockets. Zero-X is then the first to explore Mars and our solar system beyond the moon.
That means that when the Fireball XL fleet are invented later in the 2060s, they are improvements on the Zero-X design (also being launched horizontally) and can go faster and beyond our solar system, but there is still a transitional phase in which the Zero-X is still in use, and used by Spectrum to discover the Mysterons on Mars.
Anyway, those are my thoughts. Feel free to disagree, because I know this isn't flawless and that Thunderbirds being set in 2065 is hotly debated.
Great Primer by the way, I didn't expect to see separate ones on the Thunderbirds films. I look forward to the next!
Great explanation. I really like this idea.
I was about to post something similar! Nice reasoning.
Also, Cliff Richard Junior would make more sense in 2026 than 2060. Yes I know its just a movie / TV show haha.
I think there was a lot of revisionism for dates across series. By the time I started buying TV-21 in 1966 they were being placarded “universe edition no. (X) and dated 100 years hence. To me it made no sense that the back story for Jeff Tracy was that he had been a NASA astronaut and one of the first men on the moon, naming his sons after some (not all) of the Mercury 7 astronauts, that might have set a date more like 2000. I also thought the first Mars landing with Zero X (2067) to be hopelessly pessimistic when I was reading this stuff in 1967, but now that I think about it maybe not. By the time we hit Captain Scarlet things were more definitely set in the 2060s with the back stories of the main characters all having dates of birth in the 2030s. And of course Captain Scarlet appears to be set in the Thunderbirds era, as we see Zero X in TAG and also in ep 1 of CS (opening scene is tagged as 2068)
TV21 tried to deal with the timeline inconsistencies in its introduction to the serialisation of the movie during the Christmas 1966 period. The front cover had the headline "Now it can be told! Secrets of Mars spaceshot" and explained that details of the mission had just been officially released by the World Government, as if it had previously been top-secret, although of course in the film there was no hint of this, with reporters covering the launch and so on. So the first Mars mission did not happen in 2066 but some time earlier. In the UK, the government releases official papers (at year's end, just like here) under the 30-year rule. Suppose the World Government had something similar, but maybe 40 years, and you have the Zero X flight taking place in 2026, which is not a bad fit with your theory.
2:53-You Know That Everyone Under The Age Of 18 Laughed At That. Im So Sorry!!!!
David Holliday?
I liked the movie. But I agree with the concerns. Zero X was impressive and the build/launch sequence was first rate.
Best review yet 👍I love it how you always find exactly the right clip to illustrate your point
I love it. Good work. Will there be one of Thunderbird 6?
Absolutely brilliant
Those vehicles still look cool today!
I remember watching Thunderbirds Are GO on VHS when I borrowed it from the library and although I thought it impressive, I always thought that International Rescue were shoved to the side a little. Good primer video!
International Rescue was shoved to the side in live-action the 2004 Thunderbirds movie decades later in favor of Alan Tracey once again anyways! And yeah i remember hiring out Thunderbirds Are GO on VHS from my local video rental shop in the late 80's. It made for a great afternoon for 90 minutes watching it as a kid, much agreed!
Loved it even Cliff Richard and the Shadows appeared and it kicked off Captain Scarlet.
I love TB are go period.
Not often you see someone critique their own work openly like this.
The Zero-X has been my favourite fictional ship my whole life. I even got to fly it in Kerbal Space Program. I randomly found the movie DVD on a shelf in my parents house, and watched it again
(I know self advertising in yt comments is yikes, but I made a video with the Zero-X sound track of the mission and uploaded it)
A little pre-history aould help.Like how the Tracies fund the operations and how they saved Tin-Tin and Curano,etc.
The opening sequence is overlong but on a technical level it is superb.
Definitely, except for when the forward lifting body's wing tips fold down after it has already been lowered on to the main body. The damage to all those tyres would ensure that most of them had blown as soon as Zero X started trundling along the runway. Also, in the cinema version, on-screen credits appeared throughout the entire assembly sequence, concluding with 'Directed by David Lane' before the moment of take-off, but on UK's Channel 4. where the film is one of a regular group shown every few months, there are no credits whatever, relying instead on the ghastly closing sequence.
Thanks!
I love this movie!!
I miss the original Thunderbirds! So so much better than the CG ones.
I once weren’t dressed as a Thunderbird to a ‘T’ themed party.
When a ‘thief’ tried to goad me by saying “what did the Thunderbirds ever do of significance”.
My response:
“Oh, not much, only save the entire world on a regular basis” 🤣
😀🕺🏻🎥🏖🇦🇺
I remember reading the Zero X Century 21 comic feature. In fact, I think I actually read it before I saw any Thunderbirds episodes (probably connected to my age at the time; I was just getting interested in this type of material).
I have this on DVD and the novel. There was another version of the MEV in Terrahawks. I always wondered how the Zero X crew could see where they were going with that nose cone on the front of the MEV.
Those Rock Snakes scare me to death!!
I would have liked to see a Zero X Series.
Let's just say that it was ahead of its time, and in marketing terms served as a progenitor for the likes of the Star Wars series. As much as the Zero X was stunning, as was the model work in general, the real star of the show was undoubtedly Barry Gray's music. How he and the Andersons got the cojones to persuade the Royal Marines band to play the Thunderbirds theme at the end, I will never know.
All done in Technicolor and Techniscope - the "poor man's CinemaScope", but what's good enough for Sergio Leone must have been good enough for Gerry Anderson. It was good for me.
Mind you: Cliff Richard Jr - pffffffffffffffffffffff (rest of comment intelligible due to laughing my ears off)
I loved this film. The Zero X and Mars Scenes were the best if you ask me, so impressive and creative. Seeing the models from the show upgraded to be on the screen was also so impressive and cinematic as well. And who could forget all the kick ass explosions? However, the only thing I didn’t like was that The Hood was killed in this film, he is one of my favourite characters.
That car was such a brilliant image for Rolls Royce
Well thought out documentary to a great (underated) film makes me proud to own the Kino blueray releases all the more.
Hoping that you do a follow up document with its sequel “thunderbird six” FAB!
Another interesting Primer. Had no idea this was being considered even before the series that spawned it was even in air!!! 😮😮😮.
Remember my Aunt showing me a booklet from a Greatest Hits album of Cliff Richard & seeing this mentioned. Then I read the story of it in my Dad's TV Century 21 comics. It wasn't long after that when I saw it for the first time & was amazed by it!!!
If it had been made in the era of movie reunions (thinking of Star Trek) it may of led to a few more movies & maybe show some kind of advancement in puppetry.
One final thought which always up for debate. Do the Thunderbird craft look better in the series or the movie???. My choice would be the series as certain craft look a little...small in this movie. TB 1 & 2 look much more convincing in the series.
I saw this movie quite a few times before I noticed that the backgrounds in this scene are in black and white @3:14
The Zero-X launch sequence was hilariously over complicated! I remember laughing at it even as a child.
I liked "T-Birds Are Go" and "T-Bird 6" much better than the 2004 live-action film.
I will never hate this movie.
But yeah, not making the Thunderbirds the main focus of the film is what really contributed to this film's failure.
I would have loved if this was an origin story. Then you would have had an incredible franchise.
it's an 'elicopter m'lady and it happears to be 'eavily harmed
Thunderbirds and Stingray are in the same timeline and universe the pilot of (the mini-sub) was a Lt in the Wasps
Fireball XL5 is as well, Captain Black was once part of the World Space Patrol.
7:55 Cheeky Gordon Tracy. X
Ah wonderfulAnd a fantastic history lessen
This is an enjoyably objective assessment of the movie that points out, quite fairly, its several shortcomings, including how little the regular characters are given to do. In this regard, though, the most glaring omission is overlooked. The Thunderbirds craft are the stars of the film, by definition of its title, so the least we could have expected was that they would all make an appearance, but where was TB4? With a more tightly-written screenplay it could have been patrolling the coastal waters during the second launch and thus played a role in preventing the Hood's escape. This would have been a high quality tv episode that instead was used to meet the contractual need for a movie by the considerable padding of the Swinging Star nightclub. In describing the dream sequence as largely unnecessary, the reviewer is being generous.
This was really well edited!
I always thought that Fireball XL-5 took place after captain scarlet
4:10 Isn't that Marla from Space Patrol?
At least they made a comic of Thunderbird 6
The Mars voyager was a rare link between series? What about UFO to Space 1999, Moonbase Alpha?
Sounds like the 2004 film with how it pushed Alan as the focus character.
Everyone congratulated Alan…except Gordon! Guess he had to stay behind on the Island.
Lapped it alll up as a boy!❤😁
thunderbirds are go and thunderbird 6 are far better than bad 2004 live action film
I think this is a great movie and have seen it many times.
The dream sequence is something to behold and actually very clever to the point of almost being subversive.
I do however, and this may raise an eye brow or two, prefer THUNDERBIRD 6.
I’ve often wondered why they only first land on Mars in Thunderbirds Are Go when there have previously been missions to other planets in Fireball XL5 when the Supermarionation shows are supposed to be set in the same universe. Does this mean they’ve yet to make the first manned mission to the dwarf planet Ceres‽ 🤔
If the movie had been a success would Thunderbirds the show last longer in that Season 2 would have had more than 6 episodes?
Nice to see this. I was just about the right age when the film came out. My generation. I loved the film and found it developed into a proper film for the likes of me, who were used to the original characters, but, oh, I always thought the opening sequence of the Zero-X being assembled too long to engage kids really. I hated the dream sequence. Always did. Even now, when I see the film, I jump forward a few minutes. There's even a version of the film on youtube without the dream sequence. And Good for Bob Monkhouse for doing it for nothing after Alfred Marks walked out over money.
Восхищаюсь, мастерством тех людей, кто все это придумал и осуществил, как же мне все это нравится и на сколько был бы богаче мой внутренний мир, если все это увидел, я в далеком детстве...
I remember going to see this in the cimema as a kid...I would have been about 5 at the time
As much as I adore the score, it's a shame there wasn't a bit more music to certain parts of the film. The descent of the Zero-X as Alan works to save it could've done with something akin to the Fast Music.
Would you ever do a primer of the new thunderbirds are go TV series now it’s finished.
Not one for us
I still have my old Tracey island in the loft lol
Can you upload Gerry Anderson Primer of thunderbird 6 Journey to the far side of the sun aka doppelganger
Captain Paul Travers at 08:10 voiced by Johnny Carson! Pretty certain of it. Or someone doing a terrific impression of him!
It’s actually Paul Maxwell aka Steve Zodiac.