Magnetic Pages Article | 1993-07-22 | 19KB | 31 lines
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INFO$Title : Thunderbirds Are Gone!
Author : Hugh Grove
Country : England
Conditions : Public Domain
Category : Animation
Released : 1992
Opinion : 76%
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Display : PAL& This spoof of the Thunderbirds TV&puppet series was made straight after&Grove's Road Hog animation but lacks&that ones strong story-line. What we&have here is essentially a one joke&movie with the joke being just a bit&too predictable, as Bart would say.&It's all about Thunderbirds 1, 2 and 3&being called to go to a rescue. I&won't tell you any more as even from&that brief scenario you may be able to
guess the outcome.& Some of the animation is good&though with the three craft all&perfectly drawn. There's one scene&showing Thunderbird 3 as it suddenly&accelerates which easily out-&Schwartz's the aerotoon anims in the&anthropomorphic aircraft wars - very&fast and fluid and beautifully animated.& I do wish the puppet looked like a&Thunderbird's puppet should though.&Where's the wooden jaws? What's here&looks like a poorly drawn human. Not&very flattering to the real puppets&considering that on a good night they&could act Olivier off the stage. (I&haven't ripped the puppet picture here&quite as well as I should have. For&some reason I've lost two shades of
blue - sorry.)& A pretty good animation but not&quite funny enough. If you're taking&the mickey your aim needs to be very&accurate - this one misses the mark&due to using a too easily thought up
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