ThunderBirds are No-Go
"ThunderBirds", director Jonathon Frakes' re-imagining of the British 60's sci-fi puppet show, is an agonizing endeavo that guarantees alienating the original's cult audience without winning any new fans. Judging from its $2 million opening weekend take it appears to have little chance of making back its $56 million budget, putting it on track to be one of the year's biggest money-losers.
Scrapping original producer Gerry Andersen's shuffling marionettes for jail-bait teens, the film can't decide whether to play off of the original's campy charm or be an ABC AfterSchool Special throttling the viewer with teamwork and empowerment lessons. One is at a loss to see where the film's budget went since the film's computer generated spaceships look abridged, the cockpits containing little detail other than a pilot seat and a rudderstick, giving the impression that the budget ran out before the craft were fully rendered.
Looking like they had gotten lost on their way to somewhere else, Ben Kingsley and Bill Paxton supply the lead adult roles and at least provide the bored viewer a chance to speculate how much each actor got paid for this career body-blow and which one fired their agents first.
"ThunderBirds", director Jonathon Frakes' re-imagining of the British 60's sci-fi puppet show, is an agonizing endeavo that guarantees alienating the original's cult audience without winning any new fans. Judging from its $2 million opening weekend take it appears to have little chance of making back its $56 million budget, putting it on track to be one of the year's biggest money-losers.
Scrapping original producer Gerry Andersen's shuffling marionettes for jail-bait teens, the film can't decide whether to play off of the original's campy charm or be an ABC AfterSchool Special throttling the viewer with teamwork and empowerment lessons. One is at a loss to see where the film's budget went since the film's computer generated spaceships look abridged, the cockpits containing little detail other than a pilot seat and a rudderstick, giving the impression that the budget ran out before the craft were fully rendered.
Looking like they had gotten lost on their way to somewhere else, Ben Kingsley and Bill Paxton supply the lead adult roles and at least provide the bored viewer a chance to speculate how much each actor got paid for this career body-blow and which one fired their agents first.
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