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  • @ oceam brains kids name Fermat

  • The WORST-Insult Was The-'Use' of The-Definite-Article THE-Thunderbirds Like THE-God so-to-Speak!!! >(*~*)< Come-On It's 2086 ... There-is No-RELIGION to-Speak-Of so-to-Speak!!!

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  • Trust me,what I've seen of the film is bad apart from the theme song,but nothing is worse than that horrible Turbo Charged Thunderbirds I saw yesterday!

  • ?

    that's exactly what i was thinking

  • I was prepared for the fact that the live action movie was going to have CGI. However this doesn't excuse the fact that the movie was utter SHIT!

  • To Quote Mr. Gerry Anderson Himself, the 2004 Film was 'The Biggest Load of Crap I Have Ever Seen In My Life'. The 1960's TV Series was undeniably better than the 2004 Rubbish. Scott and Virgil said about Two Lines and The Machines were Destroyed. That's what I think anyway. Peace.

  • 1-Either

    2-Old

    3. new

    4-Looks worse but more realistic

    Fab1-Either

    Why didn't you include TB5?

  • space 1999 and u.f.o. were made live action, but the thunderbirds movie seems to have been made as a joke. Why were there "boink" noises added to the fight scenes?

  • I grew up with the series and I must admit I was pretty much hyped about the new movie back then. I mean it can't be that bad..right? Mistake no. 1.

    It was too focused on Alan, TinTin and Brain's kid whose name escapes me. I like centric episodes but with a movie I'd like it when the other characters have a equal role.

    Hood didn't seem like a villain for me, more like a inconvenience.

    The director admitted he never really watched the series, probably a reason why the ages are mixed up, etc

  • the new one are very nice and more "real" butt the old is more serie's and stuff so 50% 50% to be fair

  • The original or nothing.

  • cant be upgraded if you remember in the new movie alan isnt a thunderbird

  • thunderbird 5?

  • I didn't mind the movie actually...

  • BLUNDERTURDS!

  • Why did they made the actors a bunch of kids? The Thunderbirds fans are all adults that saw the series from the 60's. Were they trying to make it cool with a bunch of no-talent young "actors"? Same thing they did with DBZ movie, Speed racer, etc Why mess with a perfect good story? No wonder they flop

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  • The movie was a giggle to watch but there was sooo much wrong with it. The actor who played Jeff was appalling! Penelope was AWFUL.. The original characters weren't so young and immature and it was far too focused on Alan and him "becoming" a Thunderbird.. They should have just made lots of different rescues rather than practically the entire plot line surrounding Alan's personal life. Good graphics and music though. (Except for Busted! Eugh!)

  • I have old Thunderbirds Nintendo shooting game (1988) uploaded in my channel. It's called Let's Play Thunderbirds! For those who want to watch, please visit my channel! Thanks and I love these series.

  • Je pense que l'esprit de la série original a été conservé dans le look des appareils. Le look général de chaque appareil a été conservé de manière que les fans les reconnaissent immédiatement, tout en étant un peu modernisés.

    Mais pour FAB1, c'est dommage que Rolls-Royce ait refusé de voir son nom associé au film. Passer de Rolls-Royce à Ford, c'est une méchante drop !

    Audi, Mercedes ou BMW auraient été de meilleurs choix.

    "In Hollywood, $ is king !"

  • Of course I'm familiar with the series. Your assumption in the pm you sent to me was totally wrong. I was watching the original series back ion the 1960s when they first appeared on TV!

    My point:

    Why compare the two?

    The original TV series on which the 2005 movie (which was crap by the way,) was based, was far better, and represented original content.

    The movie was a flop and represented nothing but 45 years of possible evolution.

    Now go ahead and delete this comment as you did my previous one.

  • @acorntechnique And why not comparing the movie and the serie? I made this video just for fun and to see what people think about the new and the original Thunderbirds, nothing more.

  • The story line was lame, I have seem campy movies make better sense.

    Thunderbirds machines UPGRADED.

    Thunderbirds acting and story format DESTROYED.

    Nuff said.

  • I personally don't see the big difference.The new movie is better than the old one because:

    a) the graphics were WAY better (I know that was because of the fact that the old series was old, but i still think that the graphics are terrible.)

    b) better theme music

    c) better macines

    the old one bores me and my brother a bit.

    Plus I perfer the new characters, especially Tintin, Tintin was sssooo annoying in the old one, I quite like her in the new one.

    Sorry if I've offended anyone.

  • @lamplitbridge I don't understand how you can compare graphics. The old series was inventive and used puppets and models on strings. The movie could have done anything it wanted seeing as it had modern computers to work with.

  • @lamplitbridge Taking the fact that the old Thunderbirds series was working with puppets in the 1960's into account, the old series had a) better effects (truly groundbreaking at the time--some of the effects invented for this series were later used in James Bond movies), b) better theme music, c) better machines, and d) better story lines that actually focused on the machines.

    The new movie was just (barely) watchable. That's it.

  • I personally don't see the big difference.The new movie is better than the old one because:

    a) the graphics were WAY better (I know that was because of the fact that the old series was old, but i still think that the graphics are terrible.)

    b) better theme music

    c) better macines

    the old one bores me and my brother a bit.

    Plus I perfer the new characters, especially Tintin, Tintin was sssooo annoying in the old one, I quite like her in the new one.

    Sorry if I've offended anyone.

  • I love the TV series, it's the best.

  • I like to pretend that there wasn't a live action Thunderbirds movie. They ruined a staple of my childhood... Im gonna go watch the series on DVD again.

  • DESTROYED

  • Thunderbird 2 is a fucking disgrace

  • DESTROYED!

  • well this is a no brainer, the film was a total flop, and those classic craft were left looking over designed.

  • Destroyed!

  • old school TB win always

  • Derek Meddings is GO!

  • Thunderbirds if years 60, is the best, very best!!!

  • I didn't see the Thunderbrid's movie becuse the trailer made it look too much like Spy Kids!-{YECCH!} The kids save the ship! This movie was directed by Johnathan Frakes -Will Riker from Star Trek Next Gen! Who should have known better due to the negitve fan reaction to Wesley Chusher saving the Enterprise every week! Kids should NOT save the ship every week!-That's not Thunderbirds or Star Trek that's Lost In Space! The makers of Team America had the better idea: MAKE IT WITH PUPPETS!

  • Here's my view on which is better:

    TB1- new

    TB2- old

    TB3- new

    TB4- old

    FAB1- old

  • Such whine...for they look very similair, except for TB4. That was a downer

  • And what about the FAB 1 ?

  • @UnCanadienFrancais That wasnt the one on the film it was a model

  • Nice touch having Jeff Tracey go, "Tell me clearly and slowly, what happened?"

  • The old designs were classics and loved by millions - something the movie producers failed to note. The movie sucked from start to finish. The acting was appalling and the direction, too. Any movie that can make Ben Kingsley look that bad should be buried and forgotten.

  • tb1-old

    tb2-old

    tb3-new

    tb4-new (technically better)

    car-old (can't improve on any Rollls)

  • the OLD ONE! The designs haven't dated at all!

  • old

    old

    not much difference there, so new

    old

    old

  • old

    either

    either

    old

    old

  • tb1 - new one

    tb2 - old one

    tb3 - new one

    tb4 - old one

    fab1-old one

    :)

  • Here are my winners

    TB1 - Old One

    TB2 - Definately Old One

    TB3 - Undecieded

    TB4 - Old One

    TB5 - New One

    FAB1 - Old One

    Are we all in agreement that Both TB3's r as good as each other?

  • No, I like the new TB3,

  • Une entrevue avec le concepteur original de la série a mentionné que les producteurs du film ne l' avait même pas consulté ni contacter pour avoir son approbation de faire le film qui à son avis avait été trahi ,il avait même dit '' qu' il esperait qu' il se plante avec leur navet '' ce qui est effectivement arrivé malgré les millions de dollards de publicité en promotion , comment gâché une bonne idée qui aurait pu être un réel succès , typiquement américain !

  • Hate to admit it, but the new TB 1 and 3 look really good.

  • tunderbird 2 got fucked up the worst it looked so stupid in the movie origional tunderbirds rock movie was a fail

  • The new actual Thunderbireds look really cool, especially changing the colour on T3, but the new FAB1 looks terrible

  • with the new movie i recon they destroyed the old thunderbirds

  • If you make a T Bird movie, why wouldn't you find actors that look like the models used in the classic show.

    And use the same T Bird ships in the classic show?

    Hollywood always screws up classics.

    And they know it too.

  • Agreed, the movie was dire, utterly DIRE, beyond belief!!!! Tim Bevan of Working Title should be shot.

  • Okay, changing the machines maybe you can get away with it. But why would you want to change the design of the Pink Rolls?!?!?!? The car is sexy I myself would give anything for one based on the original series!!!

  • it aint a rolls in the 2004 movie. Rolls Royce was for some reason, i cannot remember, unable to fund the creation of a new Rolls Royce that would be similar in design to the old Fab 1, therefore Ford was taken on, and they redesigned it for the modern era.

  • Yep, the movie was pretty terrible, and so was the dialogue, the aircrafts... = shite

  • the movie was a travesty

  • T'as fait un bon travail mon gars... Bravo!

  • Merci !!!

  • The movie didn't need to be made

  • Exactly!

    I watched the TV Show in Brazil.

    It was very good.

  • My opinion is...

    The show was massively better...

    But I like the updated Thunderbirds..

    No complains about the original ones tho :P

  • The original TV show beats the 'Real-person' movie hands down.

  • The animaronic,s OK...Puppets, were much more realistic than the mickey mouse cartoon version.

    You can have most of the computer generated affects. The puppets were real!

  • Thunderbirds 1, 3 and 5 are actually close. Sadly, Thunderbirds 2 and 4 are TERRIBLE !!! So is the Mole!!

    As far as FAB1 it's supposed to be a Rolls Royce but instead it's a Ford Thunderbird!

  • the Hood molested me

  • What a load of rubbish!!! Not one of those updated versions was a patch on the original.

    If you want to see a movie version of "Thunderbirds", watch "Thunderbirds Are Go" from 1966. It leaves this crap for dead!

  • The movie that got made wasn't a "Thunderbirds" movie. It was "Home Alone" meets "Spy Kids". Avoid at all costs if you're true "Thunderbirds" fan.

  • Oh man, I wish I was born during your time. This show must've been awesome!

    But sadly, modernisation(?) has gotten to me and the old Thunderbirds aren't as appealing, :(

  • out of all those images only thunderbirds 2 and 4 and fab 1 looked terrible. What happened to thunderbird 5 by the way?

  • TB 4 was my favorite and to this day my fav # is 4 (just check out my login) That abortion looks nothing like the original.

  • Well, it goes without saying that the new ones are simply terrible. These fools who made the new movie saw nothing more than a story about rescue vehicles. It doesn't take an expert to realise that there's much much more to it than that.

    The reason the original series still lives today is because of all the care, charm, soul and skills that Gerry Anderson and his collaborators put into it.

  • Very good job !

    New Penelope's Car so pretty :)

  • It is a nice car. The only reason that it wasn't a Rolls Royce like the original version was is because Rolls Royce wanted NOTHING to do with the new movie.

  • we because of the awful things about it you cant actually blame them

  • Seriously, WHAT THE FUCK WITH T4?!

  • TBS ORIGINAL ! OTHERS TOTAL SHIT !

  • You cant upgrade a classic

  • fireflashdan..... you like the fireflash buth i hate it 2 that the fireflash is not in the new movie i like to know how the firflash is in the movie from 2004 the will change that 2

  • new are the beautiful and ancient realisticher but it is also so nix upgraded on the other hand, it is destroyed

  • My god look at the poor little thunderbird 4. My god it looks nothing like hte original one.

  • bit of both.

  • This blasphemy! This is madness!

  • Madness? THIS IS TRACY ISLAND!

  • COMPLETE AND UTTER DECIMATION!

  • I think i'd let them get away with the changes except for thunderbird 2... It looks a damn green rock with red holes. The spoiler thing at the back is all wrong too. Well done, developers, you've truly bodged up the new design.

  • I'd say they were BASTARDIZED. I don't know why people love putting a new creative spin on things that fans have loved for decades. The same was true with Loonatics Unleashed (A cartoon so horrible it should never be compared to the Looney Tunes) and Bomberman: Act Zero (A stupid new spin on one of the greatest classic video games). Fans of the originals got mad that their beloved series were being screwed with.

    Thankfully enough fans complained before Jack Black became the Green Lantern. Yech!

  • This reminds me of Stan Lee when he was on the Simpsons.

    "Broke, or made it better?"

    Though some of the angles of the new pictures make them look horrid when they aren't actually that much different, i'll agree the old ones are better, the old metal toys were cooler too

  • P.S: the voiceover guy saying different things made me lol, it's so true.

    I like the extended version of the music too

  • Destroyed - no question

  • Old ones by far. hell even the toys were better. at least the original toys were the die-cast metal ones, not cheap china plastic that they are today.

  • Destroyed. I prefer the older versions, more believable and less 'toyish' or childish.

  • older are better

  • Wow. Thanks for assembling this. I much prefer the original designs, much cleaner and more elegant, and more potent. The original T2 suggested muscle, the original T1 and T3 embodied speed. The new designs are cluttered and just don't convey the essential character of the machines. The new T4 is way too busy, T2 looks like a cordless mouse, no muscle, T1 and T3 don't have the essential look of speed. Very disappointing.

  • I think the new ones look quite good actually, at least they made them look like the original designs, and Thunderbird 4's new look looks like an actual practical submersible

  • i h8 the new machines their so ugly the old ones are the best

  • I don't even know why they changed them.

  • WTF? It's the first time I see this stupid new mashines.

    Old ones were much better!!

  • DESTROYED!!!

    they changed evrything those stupid uniforms

    the hud and tintin having telekenisi i mean wtf!!

    BRAINS'S SON!!!! ALAN STILL IN SCHOOL!!!

    JEFF FLYING TB1!!!!

    they butcherd a good thing so badly,..

  • My movies name for the movie is Thunderbirds 2000 because we are in the 21st century it is the 21st century generation of thunderbirds

  • i love the thunderbirds TV show. but the movie? it's OK...but i felt like it was a SPY KIDS knockoff!!!

  • destroyed, definetely.

    old thunderbirds are much better, the movie sucks

  • I tell you what happened...the idiots at Working Title should have known better and stuck with doing what they know best...chick flick films like 'Notting Hill' and Bridget Jones mush! Second, they employed an American who knew nothing about Thunderbirds and cared nothing of it...unlike the Brit who directed Batman and got the two recent films dead on, well away from the benchmark films established by Tim Burton's Beetlejuice rubbish! Frakes employed his wife, took lazy money and ran! Shit film!

  • I think the movie was good for those never seen the original Thunderbirds. But i agree the old is much better.

  • They Were Upraded But In A Rubbish & Bad Way!!!!Which Made The Thunderbirds Less Famous!!!!!!

  • ils auraient dont du faire le film comme la série originale. plus comme Team America.

  • In a word the new one was CRAP.

  • old one is better

  • destroyed, no doubt in my mind and y did they make it for kids by adding..............a kid Tracy that wasn't every in the original, They didn't need to !!

  • I've got the live action film and it's safe to say that it sucks the big one

  • The new version sux.

    Original thunderbirds FTW

  • I agree

  • destroyed, for sure

  • Took me til last year to muster the courage to see the movie. I can't understand what it is with the people who do remakes - usually they miss the point completely, muck up the formula that made something good. Thunderbirds was about teamwork, heroism, adventure and excitement - not a bunch of kids farting around in a jungle.

    The original designs were by far the best. Iconic! I see posters are voting for the original TB2 in particular. Good!

    Finally, they replaced a RR with a Ford - IDIOTS!!

  • I heard that when they turned down Gerry Anderson's offer of help for the movie Rolls Royce told them "bollocks" so they had to use the Ford. Like most things the original was best.

  • i think you should all get a life!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • What's your problem shit head ?

    I think YOU should get a life because losing time to say that to people for me means that you dont really have a bigger life than us.

    Misérable mange marde !

  • The Movie got everything WRONG! FAB1 is a ROLLSROYCE NOT A BLOODY FORD! Only 1 od the Tracys are blond not every second one and why does Jeff Tracy look like he's just stepped off Apollo 13?! Bring back Garry Anderson's puppets!!!

  • No! They were crapified!

  • lol

  • DESTROYED!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Yes what happened? The upgrades were entirley poor and foolish! TB1 with windows and no horizontal-vertical height seat adjustment? TB2 looks like an overweight whale? TB3 is decent. TB4 was simply not even thought out...a mish mash of lazy brain efforts...TB5 improves on the OS model...and Lady Penelope's car is a disgrace! It flies while looking like a constipated turd? I'm sure Frake's wouldn't have mistreated the Enterprise this way...he took the money and bailed!

  • I find the new designs to be quite good, at least they look more or less like the original ones...the Transformers had new looks too for their movie

  • thunderbird 4 changed the most they just like killed it i mean come on its got grabby things and a wierd edge

  • the new machines suck granted the original T2 would get far on the wings, but it could at least get to the danger zone, not like the new T2, thats another thing they dont say the classic "danger zone" in the nu film, they say Accident zone! T1 looks the most correct but still way off, T4 looks way bettr with the scoop thing or whatever on the front, who says it has to be more practical? but T2 was shocking! way to piss off the fans Director!!!

  • I can see the BIG difference.

  • That stupid T-Birds movie pissed me off.

    Its RUBBISH.

    They completely raped Thunderbirds along with all the characters and the machines. What the fuck did they do to Thunderbird 2 ? Why is Alan a teenager, and allowed to pilot a space rocket?

    I am glad that Gerry Anderson had no nothin to do with it. Thank you for Thunderbirds, Gerry, thank you.

  • you so right

  • fanfiction**....once**** found my typos

  • They werent destroyed or upgraded. Think of the movie as an alternate universe. A fandfiction come to life. Set it as its own and you will enjoy it. I for one love the Original Thunderbirds and nothing could be better then them, but one i decided that the movie was a AU version I found it entertaining.

  • I dont know what is the trip to always remake things that was great before...like korn that has made a remake of ''another brick in the wall'' of Pink Floyd...What, there is nobody to create, you have to imitate..Good work J-N, new thunderbirds sucks..

  • Destroyed.....

  • Deffinately DESTROYED!! Bring back Gerry Anderson...

    GERRY, GERRY, GERRY, GERRY!!

  • ahh the origional seiries are always the best

  • Ok im 15 and have always loved Thunderbirds since it came out in fashion in the early 2000's and the kids at my school took the mick and when the 'movie' came out they all loved the 'movie' but hated the actual series?!?! im like u SERIOUSLY need to give the series a chance, yes they were puppets but so what? I think its amazing what they could do with those puppets but you know

  • They were destroyed! No doubt about it. That "movie" was and has to be in the top 100 worst films ever made list. It was an insult and a travesty. It's so strange that to this date there has never been a successful THUNDERBIRDS spin off of any kind. Icluding the original movie from the late sixties. For some strange reason THUNDERBIRDS just doesn't seem to work outside the confines of the original series.

  • I couldn't agree more mate. The Thunderbirds of the 1960s is in a totally different league. When i learned they were making a live action film, i knew that it was doomed! Thunderbirds was a show created with puppets and the special effects were specially designed for the puppet show as well. The music as well of the orignal series is just awesome! Plus also the orignal machines look so much better.

  • I agree completely the 'movie' was complete bull**** the Thunderbirds looked like kids play toys! The Thunderbirds in the original series (and its 2 feature films) were just out of this world i mean Thunderbird 1 looks like...a real future aircraft one thing i got to ask though is: What the hell happened when they were designing Thunderbird 5 in the 2004 movie? The designer must have been on drugs or sumthing!

  • I havent seen the movie, wasnt attracted, but for the pictures, I can say that the 4rt is only a little better, with the mechanical hands.

    The 3rd looks almost the same.

  • they didn't do much with Thunderbird 3 did they lol

  • Un CanadienFrancaise, merci pour votre image, c'est tres superbe, ah des memoires!

    bonjour du Liverpool, capital europeen de culture 2008

  • Hey mate !

    Keep practicing your french men, awesome ! I wanna go in England for my next travel !

  • don't tell the U.S military, they shoot down friendly aircraft (eg British planes in Gulf War) they may think Thunderbirds are enemy missiles heading for New York their motto: shoot first, evade questions later!

  • HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! good one!

  • Now THAT was funny!!!!!

    I think the only possible solution is for Lady Penelope to dust herself of and get to work!

    (Help!)

  • the origonal is, and will always be, much better than that poorly acted, lousy peice of s##t they called "thunderbirds" in 2004.

  • thunderbird two (the original) clearly is the best..closely followed by the other (original) four. logically...the original, maybe even proper, thunderbirds is best!

    only decent thing about the film was Penny and Parker...FAB1 wasn't that different...tho the RR is still the better of the two

  • FAB1 in the new one is a FORD ! HUGE DIFFERENCE !

  • yeh i know, but it aint THAT different....not in the same way as others r...frankly the "updated" TB2 can't fly!!!!!!!! granted the original wouldn't either...but the wing span is....STUPID!!! but FAB1 is essentially still the same...more or less. apart from being a ford therefore alot less posh and clearly now not having a Radar system thing like the original (that's in whatever you call the bit on the front of the car above the grill....)

  • old is best.

    no exceptions.

    and the rolls was included just to show lady penelope was an upper class citizen, something which was clearly defined in the 60s.

    also im glad tb5 and the mole werent included the new ones are terrible.

    and who can honestly say that thunderbird 2s pod system was made better? it was just the fact that the entire middle of the craft was removed each time the pod was lowered, whereas in the new thunderbird 2, its a little box pops out the bottom. how crap.

  • true (bwt the pods) PLUS....in that film wot came out of that thing?? TB4, the mole...and didnt appear much room for either considerin TB4 came out of back half and the mole must be longer than half of the "box". also wt happens if say the new thunderbirds two went to the rescues in Pit of Peril or Duchess Assignment? where the mole and other such craft are needed...wudnt work at all

  • yeah i gotta admit, the collection of pod vehicles was... in a word: crap. Also where exactly wer they planning on having the magnetic grab (the pod based 4 pronged one from End Of The Road, not the mini 3 pronged one from Day of Disaster and Atlantic Inferno) come from?

  • nothing will ever compare to gerry andersons supermairnation, unless its made by gerry himself, except for team america, but thats funny and good, its in a different genera, not si-fi but actually comedy.

  • I have never watched the original series.I only see the movie becouse of Vanessa Hudgens

    I think that the movie is the worst think i had evere seen in my entire life

  • lol

  • The big thing i mis in the Thunderbirds movie Was WHAT hapend to the pods of TB2? i liked those 6 pods. (3 and 6 where my favorit :P they housed the best stuff)

    The directos even F**** the Firefly, A cool and mean machine down to a foam spraying kitten. what hapend to the "mean machine" with the hidden gun in the center of the machine...it is sayd when you know the old series.

    i have to say: The Thunderbirds original serie of Gerry Anderson TFW!

  • I like the film. but its so... well...

    its not classic TB,

    the original just has such a nice feel about it. I just cant explain in words, I prefer the original (not old, ORIGINAL).

  • You're so right men , the original one !

  • that is called the thunderbird fever, felt by kids all over the world back in the 60s, and yet still today some of that classic feeling is preserved and passed onto the new generations.

    but its films like this which will discourage kids from watching the old series because its puppets and not real people like the movie.

  • The biggest problem with the "Thunderbirds" movie was that they scrapped the original "recipe":

    1.You introduce some characters.

    2.Make you like them.

    3.Put them in the middle of a life threatening disaster.

    4.Just as all hope is lost International Rescue save the day!

    The movie was a crap "spy kids"!

  • In a few view , this video will be watched 30 000 times and so far , in general , people prefer the old, well, the original Thunderbirds style like I expected.

    I think people are getting tired of all those remakes of everything and see those kind of disaster happening.

  • i saw the original pink rolls royce in the keswick car museum, that wuz cool. Thers an abandoned yellow car near myhouse and i wanna do it up as T4 lol

  • I'll never forgive them for what they did to my baby, Thunderbird 2!

  • TB2 is the best one in my opinion

  • Your kidding right?

    The TB2 of the original serie of Gerry Anderson was the best those 6 pods TFW!

    In this 2004 movie it is just one pice of green flying JUNK!

  • thats an insult to junk.

  • For me the puppets win hands down.

    The modern film just didn't cut it for me.

    I know that the original series was primarily aimed at the children's market but adults could also get something out of it as well.I am still amazed at how good the original Thunderbirds was and still is.

    The film was too Americanised and childish.

  • I don't see how it messed up the story. Think of it as a prequel, before Alan was old enough to drive TB3. They can focus on the other brothers in other movies. I agree it would have made more money focused on the generation who watched it in the 60's as opposed to focusing it on kids, but it is (and was) after all a kids show. I'd rather watch a good movie than one that just made a lot of money anyday.

  • As for FAB1 being redone as a Ford Thunderbird, they had to do this because Rolls Royce would not agree to the rights. Pity, but the new FAB1 is much cooler IMHO anyway.