Retro Review: Thunderbirds Are Go
Synopsis Puppets, and the occasional real, human hand, try to prevent disaster. Review Spoliers ahead. This movie is based on a British TV series which predates me, but which I'd catch episodes of on cable TV when I was a kid. I found it fascinating at the time. Wow, where to begin with this one? For starters, the movie begins with a loooong sequence of a spacecraft preparing for launch. It has multiple modules, and lucky us, we get to witness each one being attached to the main body of the craft...slowly. Later in the film, that fact that there are multiple modules comes into play, but this segment could've been reduced for pacing. It's almost as if the film is saying "There may still be people in the lobby buying popcorn and snacks...let's take our time with this scene." The next thing I noticed is that there's a real over-complexity to things in the the Thunderbirds universe. For example, the guy in the control tower managing the whole "Let'...