Thunderbirds Are Go! has an action-packed launch, but its script and CG are far from top-notch. Will the revamp live up to its potential?
This review contains spoilers.
1.1 Ring Of Fire
Not only are the Thunderbirds gang back, they’ve also been appended with “are go!” - and boy, do they ever go. Sylvia and Gerry Anderson’s much-loved show, celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, screeches and blasts its way on to the small screen and doesn’t hold up for 45 minutes or so.
The puppets, and their charm it has to be said, may have been replaced by computer-generated characters, but the iconic ships and Tracy Island remain, for the most part, as beautiful standing-set models produced by Weta (The Lord Of The Rings).
This first instalment, which sees two episodes aired together as one, neatly introduces to the International Rescue troupe. All the Tracy brothers remain, though...
This review contains spoilers.
1.1 Ring Of Fire
Not only are the Thunderbirds gang back, they’ve also been appended with “are go!” - and boy, do they ever go. Sylvia and Gerry Anderson’s much-loved show, celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, screeches and blasts its way on to the small screen and doesn’t hold up for 45 minutes or so.
The puppets, and their charm it has to be said, may have been replaced by computer-generated characters, but the iconic ships and Tracy Island remain, for the most part, as beautiful standing-set models produced by Weta (The Lord Of The Rings).
This first instalment, which sees two episodes aired together as one, neatly introduces to the International Rescue troupe. All the Tracy brothers remain, though...
- 4/1/2015
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Interview Andrew Blair 13 Mar 2013 - 07:00
Andrew salutes seminal TV theme composer Barry Gray, whose work with Gerry Anderson became the earworm of a generation...
There are many memorable images in the shows of Gerry Anderson, and it is nearly impossible to disassociate these from the incidental music supplied by composer Barry Gray. From The Adventures of Twizzle to Space: 1999, Gray was an instrumental part of AP Films/Century 21 Productions, contributing story ideas, incidental and theme music.
Stingray's opening titles are, as previously discussed, spectacular. Typically for a Gray composition, it's brass and percussion heavy, and catchier than influenza. The March of the Thunderbirds and other pieces are played by brass bands and orchestra’s to this day. On top of this, his interest in electronica resulted in his producing effects and music for the Amicus film Dr. Who and the Daleks, utilising ring modulaters and an obscure...
Andrew salutes seminal TV theme composer Barry Gray, whose work with Gerry Anderson became the earworm of a generation...
There are many memorable images in the shows of Gerry Anderson, and it is nearly impossible to disassociate these from the incidental music supplied by composer Barry Gray. From The Adventures of Twizzle to Space: 1999, Gray was an instrumental part of AP Films/Century 21 Productions, contributing story ideas, incidental and theme music.
Stingray's opening titles are, as previously discussed, spectacular. Typically for a Gray composition, it's brass and percussion heavy, and catchier than influenza. The March of the Thunderbirds and other pieces are played by brass bands and orchestra’s to this day. On top of this, his interest in electronica resulted in his producing effects and music for the Amicus film Dr. Who and the Daleks, utilising ring modulaters and an obscure...
- 3/13/2013
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Odd List Mark Pickavance Feb 5, 2013
Mark talks us through the ten things that ITV's new Thunderbirds series must feature to be worthy of its name...
As a huge fan of the series, I was personally excited to catch the news that Thunderbirds is coming back after a brief fifty year interlude. Frankly, anything to erase the horrific 2004 movie where director Jonathan Frakes turned all my childhood dreams into celluloid nightmares, would be appreciated.
It's not a total homage to the old series I'm looking for, just something without Vanessa Hudgens mugging the camera, and with plenty of visual spectacle. But, whatever happens in each story, everything must blow up at the end, it's the law.
Here are ten other things that need to be in the new series for it to earn a Geek Fab from this site:
1. Fireflash
Ok, strictly not a Thunderbirds vehicle, but very cool all the same.
Mark talks us through the ten things that ITV's new Thunderbirds series must feature to be worthy of its name...
As a huge fan of the series, I was personally excited to catch the news that Thunderbirds is coming back after a brief fifty year interlude. Frankly, anything to erase the horrific 2004 movie where director Jonathan Frakes turned all my childhood dreams into celluloid nightmares, would be appreciated.
It's not a total homage to the old series I'm looking for, just something without Vanessa Hudgens mugging the camera, and with plenty of visual spectacle. But, whatever happens in each story, everything must blow up at the end, it's the law.
Here are ten other things that need to be in the new series for it to earn a Geek Fab from this site:
1. Fireflash
Ok, strictly not a Thunderbirds vehicle, but very cool all the same.
- 2/4/2013
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
In the decade preceding the release of Star Wars, the space opera was moving in an interesting direction. After the space race and John F. Kennedy’s promise of a new frontier motivated things like Star Trek and 2001: A Space Oddysey to imagine space exploration as a potential vehicle for scientific enlightenment and international understanding, the petty differences of the past being obliterated (and militaristic ambitions belittled by) by new comprehension of the vastness of space. But if Space: 1999 is any indication, Kubrick’s antecedents were less interested in the profound ideas that he was speculating about and more interested in his taste in brightly colored and highly utilitarian furniture (which doesn’t look all that different from the decoration in highly mod films like Blow-up). From Gerry Anderson, creator of swinging puppet adventure Thunderbirds, comes Space: 1999, a show that looks to boldly go where Star Trek went before,...
- 12/22/2010
- by Anders Nelson
- JustPressPlay.net
In the decade preceding the release of Star Wars, the space opera was moving in an interesting direction. After the space race and John F. Kennedy’s promise of a new frontier motivated things like Star Trek and 2001: A Space Oddysey to imagine space exploration as a potential vehicle for scientific enlightenment and international understanding, the petty differences of the past being obliterated (and militaristic ambitions belittled by) by new comprehension of the vastness of space. But if Space:1999 is any indication, Kubrick’s antecedents were less interested in the profound ideas that he was speculating about and more interested in his taste in brightly colored and highly utilitarian furniture (which doesn’t look all that different from the decoration in highly mod films like Blow-up). From Gerry Anderson, creator of swinging puppet adventure Thunderbirds, comes Space:1999, a show that looks to boldly go where Star Trek went before,...
- 12/22/2010
- by Anders Nelson
- JustPressPlay.net
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Little Fockers - Screening
Live in Phoenix or the nearby environs? Interested in seeing Little Fockers on December 16? Then, pal, I have just the ticket for you. In fact, I have a lot of tickets so by all means shoot me a line at Christopher_Stipp@yahoo.com and I’ll see about hooking you up with passes to see it.
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This holiday season come Little Fockers the third installment in this blockbuster series (Meet The Parents and Meet the Fockers.) The test of wills between Jack Byrnes (Robert De Niro) and Greg Focker (Ben Stiller) escalates to new heights as Jack Byrnes (Robert De Niro) and Greg Focker (Ben Stiller) and the family...
- 12/10/2010
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