Thunderbirds: Critic Reviews

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MovieWeb: 0 reviews

20%

RottenTomatoes: 104 reviews

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Gregory Kirschling Entertainment Weekly (Top Critic)

50

Long may 'F-A-B!' live on, even as this mild update slips into the movie-history remainder bin.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Stephen Holden New York Times (Top Critic)

60

Thunderbirds wants to be two things at once: a live-action gee-whiz kiddie flick and a nostalgic spoof of 60's England when it swung like a pendulum.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Claudia Puig USA Today (Top Critic)

50

Fun at times and tedious at others, it's an action-adventure fantasy aimed particularly at gadget-loving boys.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Desson Thomson Washington Post (Top Critic)

This movie is horrible to sit through, let alone talk about.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Ty Burr Boston Globe (Top Critic)

75

Not only did the 7-year-old boy inside me have a high old time, so did the 7-year-old daughter sitting next to me.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Ben Kenigsberg Village Voice (Top Critic)

It's just another entry in a seemingly endless line of Spy Kids knockoffs.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Jami Bernard New York Daily News (Top Critic)

25

This foolishly conceived movie version of the 1960s sci-fi TV show is not only achingly dull, it has no respect for its origins.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Amy Biancolli Houston Chronicle (Top Critic)

A new and rather breathtakingly misconceived attempt to revisit a vintage TV show that did not under any circumstances need to be revisited.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Gary Dowell Dallas Morning News (Top Critic)

25

A visually impressive, but largely lifeless, limp noodle that strips the details that made the 1960s TV series work and features a bland coming-of-age story and a by-the-numbers revenge plot.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times (Top Critic)

38

This is a movie made for an audience that does not exist, at least in the land of North American multiplexes.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Allison Benedikt Chicago Tribune (Top Critic)

63

A pretty entertaining, extremely good-looking cinematic blip.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Joshua Katzman Chicago Reader (Top Critic)

There's enough special effects razzle-dazzle to distract the average ten-year-old, but the script by William Osborne and Michael McCullers is stilted and humorless -- a little camp might have helped.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Tom Long Detroit News (Top Critic)

34

It's nothing terrible -- a typical kid's fantasy -- but it's nothing any sober person is going to want to sit through.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Randy Cordova Arizona Republic (Top Critic)

30

A charmless, leaden tale that never gets off the ground, even when its characters soar through the air.
Full Review » 8 years ago
David Rooney Variety (Top Critic)

Frakes, who reinvigorated the Star Trek franchise with First Contact, fails to pump the same energy into this tube-to-screen transfer.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Megan Lehmann New York Post (Top Critic)

38

A lackluster Spy Kids wannabe.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Jay Boyar Orlando Sentinel (Top Critic)

40

Aside from possibly launching a Ben Kingsley line of cosmetics, Thunderbirds seems destined to leave no lasting mark.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Geoff Pevere Toronto Star (Top Critic)

40

Not intended for people old enough to pine for the puppets. It's for people who don't remember the first cast of Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Alan Niester Globe and Mail (Top Critic)

0

Simply put, this is a bad, bad film, this summer's answer to last summer's The League of Extraordinary Gentleman.
Full Review » 8 years ago
James Berardinelli ReelViews (Top Critic)

38

This is another example of the idiocy that often results when Hollywood attempts to convert an animated TV show into a non-animated movie.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Ray Bennett Hollywood Reporter (Top Critic)

A piece of whiz-bang children's entertainment that could appeal to the family market far and wide.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Kevin Crust Los Angeles Times (Top Critic)

40

A feeble Spy Kids imitation.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Nell Minow Common Sense Media

60

Fans of the Spy Kids series will enjoy it.
Full Review » 1 year ago
Felix Vasquez Jr. Cinema Crazed

Full Review » 3 years ago
Urban Cinefile Critics Urban Cinefile

Full Review » 4 years ago