Dungeons and Dragons.
Oh dear, oh dear oh dear...!
"I'm the handsome All-American Boy who is brave, noble, wise and is obviously going to save the day".
"I'm the loud irritating clumsy black guy who is obviously the comic relief and am probably going to die before the end of the film."
"I'm the plain girl who wears glasses who is actually going to turn out to be rather good looking after all and I hate the hero, so obviously I'm going to fall in love with him."
"I'm the well-known British actor, so obviously I'm the villain and I'm not going to take this film seriously, so I'm going to camp things up"
"I'm the Princess who believes in Truth, Justice, Freedom and Mom's Apple Pie, and am going to win and bring everyone into a new era of democracy."
Etc etc etc...
(Oh and "I'm the Director of this film, I have no shame!")
3/10 and only because the effects were pretty good.
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Thunderbirds.
I could probably transplant several of the cliches from above straight into this review...!!
Alternatively: How the Americans manage to take something well loved from Britain and turn it into a piece of tedious and mindless crap!
About the only good bit in the film was a neat little nod towards the original series.
Remember when they'd show a puppet trying to manipulate an object etc and they'd switch to a close up of a real pair of hands? Well in this one, they show the real actors in Thunderbird One, then cut to a close up of a puppet hand *with strings* pushing the throttles!
2/10