Thomas & Friends: Misty Island Rescue

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.

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.

First, this movie has so many plot holes and a bad story. So the story was a mess and three american engines are sent to an island to rot. That is messed up, turn them into generators like Smuger. Second, how is the tunnel under water and the smoke comes from the island, and how is whiff the oldest engine on sodor know( he was a season 11 character) and theirs another thing, in the movie, how is a crew on a boat not hear 5 yards behind them so it is their falt this movie happened. Thanks Sharron Miller for the hell of all Thomas movies.

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.

Goodies: The Idea Of Thomas Getting Lost On An Island Is Interesting

The Opening Credits Are Awesome

The Camera And Harold Both Flying Towards Thomas And Topham Are Cool

The Seriousness At The Scene Where Thomas And The Logging Locos Are Stuck In The Tunnel Is Amazing

The Score By Robert Hartshorne Is Still 👍

The After Credits Scene With Diesel 10

Baddies: Everything Else In This Film, Especially Thomas, Who Is Infamously Known For Saying Something Racist To Diesel "No Diesel, I'm sure The Fat Controller/Sir Topham Hatt means a really useful steamie! You'll never be that!"

My Rate: Bad.