(opens 6 Aug 2004) Live-action adaptation of 1960s BBC puppet TV series with Gerry and Sylvia Anderson characters; Plot: First, an oil-rig disaster; then the Thunderbirds fly back to their secret island base (not the one VP Dick Cheney works in). Then their space station TB5 is crippled, apparently by meteors, but really by arch villain Arsiotle Spode to get them to leave their base, which he then takes over, and gives Brain drugs to make him compliant. Or something. Director: Jonathan Frakes; Screenplay: Starring: Alan Tracy -- Brady Corbet; Jeff Tracy -- Bill Paxton; Fermat -- Soren Fulton; The Hood [villain] -- Ben Kingsley; Brains -- Anthony Edwards; Lady Penelope -- Sophia Myles; Parker -- Ron Cook; Scott Tracy -- Philip Winchester; John Tracy -- Lex Shrapnel; Virgil Tracy -- Dominic Colenso; Gordon Tracy -- Ben Torgerson;
