Thomas & Friends: Misty Island Rescue

This movie totally houses the lame Thomas and the Magic Railway movie. This is what a Thomas movie should be. Fun, adventurous, creative, and with a hint of evil at the end...

My son and I love this movie. He is two and a half, I just about 40. From the first act where Sir Topham Hat introduces the "jobi" wood, you know that this movie is in the pocket. Hiro mentioning that jobi wood only grows on one or two locations in his now radioactively challenged island while a tear streams from his eye was genius. Then the not so subtle hint of racism as Diesel says that he wants to win the "Most Useful Engine" of the day contest and have the privilege of pushing the jobi wood to the construction site but Thomas says that Sir Topham Hat was really meant the most useful steam engine as diesels are noisy and dirty...

There are only two faults with this movie; Sir Topham Hat's terrible overacting (like he's on a soap opera) and Thomas mindlessly repeating the rhyme about how he makes good decisions. The res of the movie is brilliant.

Misty Island is great and the hillybilly inspired Logging Locos, Bash, Dash, and Ferdinand are funny and really interesting. Great characters who teach Thomas to let his hair down and not be so uptight and proper.

This movie has a great story, great characters, and great animation. The icing on the cake is at the end of the movie when all the trains are celebrating at the dock, the evil Diesel 10 rolls into frame looking down on the steamies from atop a mountain and vows his revenge. Sure it was probably just a teaser to get everyone interested in th upcoming Day of the Diesels movie but it was still an awesome touch.

I have to say that when Thomas moved from real models to CGI, I was disappointed but this movie shows you how good CGI can be. The trains and sets look like models and sometimes it is hard to tell, it is so well done. Bravo. Bravo.

This film is just GARBAGE! I once thought Magic Railroad was the worst but no. This is the worst. Everyone make stupid decisions and EVERYONE rhymes at some point in the special. The only things I like about the special are the intro theme and the end song. That is it. I can't stand this film. It was just a cash-grab to try and expand the island. It is awful! I just scream at this all the time. STH is stupid and the logging locos are the most likeable characters in this film. And I hate them. A LOT of work needed to be done to fix this mess of a film because it is so grating to watch. It hurts my brain!

Thomas & Friends: Misty Island Rescue is over all a solid good movie but it's also one of the best movies ever made because even though the movie has some problems I can't help but love this movie not just because of that but also because of what I thought of it as a kid. This movies soundtrack is so great and fun to listen to. The characters in this movie are really likeable and unlike that travesty movie known as Thomas and the Magic Railroad the characters in this movie are actually likeable and are not stupid. The animation for this movie holds up quite well since this movie came out in 2010 about 14 years ago. 10/10.

I Love Mistery Island Rescue, the movie is NOT terrible, i Love so much this movie, best Thomas movie ever, Bash, Dash and Ferdind are so cool and funny, i Love Mistery Island Rescue, i don't understand why the movie is so hated, i Love so much this movie, the movie is so cool and funny, best Thomas movie ever, 100/100, ⭐10/10, 🍅100% 🍿100%, i Love this movie, i Love Mistery Island Rescue, the movie is so cool and funny, the looking locos are so cool and funny, i don't understand why the movie is so hated, there critics are a menace tho the word, i Love Mistery Island Rescue and Diesel 10 return.

My son just loves Thomas & Friends. He collects the trains and has watched a number of the original series. This was our first foray into the newer Thomas adventures, and I thought it was well done and kept much of the original flavor and ideals.

Animation (versus the original's use of real-life models) has both pluses and minuses. On the plus is the allowance for greater flexibility in camera shots, more animation of the figures themselves and a wider allowance for possible story lines. On the negative, there will always be something magical about real-world objects when done as well as the original series was.

As for this particular outing, it involves a mysterious island, colorful new characters and adventure as always. The narration is well done, as are the character voices (one major difference with the originals, which are all voiced by the same narrator). The scariest moment being a near "deadly" plunge off the train tracks to the cliffs below.

Nothing too frightening, good values (usefulness, obedience, friendship, etc) and charming visuals should appeal to younger children. It's also nice to have storytelling without frenetic action... a good choice for parents.