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Thomas and the Magic Railroad | 
 enlarge | Actors: Alec Baldwin, Linda Ballantyne, Robert Black, Laura Bower, Didi Conn
Studio: Sony Pictures
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  169 reviews
Sales Rank: 15944
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Full Screen, Live, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: G (General Audience)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 84
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Picture Format: Pan & Scan
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 043396054264
ISBN: 0767855019
UPC: 043396054264
EAN: 9780767855013
ASIN: B00004XPPF
Theatrical Release Date: July 26, 2000
Release Date: October 31, 2000
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Product Description
Thomas and his friends are in trouble when evil Diesel #10 tries to dominate the others.
Genre: Feature Film Family
Rating: G
Release Date: 23-MAR-2004
Media Type: DVD
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Thomas, as anyone familiar with the eponymous, wildly popular TV series knows, is a very useful engine, and never more so than in his first theatrical release, which was a modest box-office success. On a tank filled with little more than pluck, determination, and goodwill, Thomas sets out full steam ahead on a danger-fraught mission to help his friend Mr. Conductor. The conductor's stash of magic gold dust has run out, leaving him stranded on the Island of Sodor with Junior, his flaky cousin, and Lily, a little girl enlisted to lift her grandfather out of a funk on nearby Muffle Mountain. When Thomas bravely chugs beyond his hometown tracks' buffers with Lily aboard, he's transported to Muffle Mountain's secret railway and to Lady, a long-lost steamer whose legendary engine makes her more powerful than Diesel, the train-yard bully. Together, Thomas and Lady lead Diesel on a chase that causes a bridge to collapse, taking the dastardly Diesel down with it. Most impressive about the movie is its marquee names: Alec Baldwin works magic as the dutiful worrywart Mr. Conductor, Mara Wilson is Lily, and Peter Fonda plays the cool-looking but lugubrious Grandpa. It's a cast that'll keep put-upon parents watching, if halfheartedly. Thomas fans 5 and under, meanwhile, will wish the actors wouldn't blow so much hot air; they'll want to see their hero a bigger part in steaming up the story line. --Tammy La Gorce
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 stop being so critical! the kids seem to love it.. October 8, 2008
I just think it's so funny that most of the people that gave this movie a bad review are basing it on their own criticsm and point of view. Hey, try looking at it from the kids' perspective and as long as they like it your opinions are null.
 1 year old LOVES it September 8, 2008
My son is 13 mos and LOVES this movie. Yes Peter Fonda's acting makes me laugh but the movie is golden simply for the fact that my son can watch it over and over again and keep him entertained. Anyone who thinks the plot is hard to follow is joking because my son at 13 mos follows it and even claps at the parts when Thomas saves the day. The songs are sweet and it's a nice feel good movie for the whole family. Alec Baldwin is a hilarious straight man to his free spirited cousin. They actually make the movie tolerable for the adults who have to sit through it.
 Just terrible August 24, 2008
This movie is just wrong...the acting is terrible and the plot is nonsensical. There is no excuse for such awful movie-making. Yes, even for kids.
Worst of all, it is completely false to the spirit of the Thomas stories and original series. The movie actually features an evil villain -- rare-to-nonexistent in the real Thomas stories, where the baddies learn their lessons and quickly become goodies. One of the charms of the Sodor of the books is that none of the trains are all bad, and all of them are basically upstanding and want nothing but to be Really Useful Engines. The Thomas engines in this turkey are made to say things roughly in character but still totally tone deaf. They're caricatures. The narrator has an American accent, and the engines are given very annoying voices, unlike the good old fashioned British productions. It mixes live actors, who are apparently somewhere in a magical part of the United States. Alec Baldwin plays a sort of fairy creature. A train is hidden inside a mountain, and is called not by English names like Emily but the Disneyesque "Lady." That just gives you a little notion. Apparently the plot involves "magical gold dust," but I admit I didn't finish watching the movie so I never found out how. But in the books, Sodor is not magical, it is not a fairy tale. It's a regular place...it just happens to have engines that talk. It interfaces with the real world, not via a magic portal, but via bridges and ferries.
This movie is not Thomas the Tank Engine. This is Americanized, Disneyfied excuse to make a buck--well, that's not fair, because most American children's and Disney theatrical releases are not this bad. Whoever is responsible for this turkey knows nothing about Thomas or why kids love him. They just wanted to make a quick buck, that's all. It's a slap in the face to those who like and appreciate Thomas.
My little boy is absolutely crazy about Thomas, but he couldn't watch more than 10-15 minutes of this garbage.
So crazy even the kids were making fun of it... August 23, 2008
Near the end of this movie I finally figured out what this movie was like. It's exactly like when someone is telling you a really weird dream they had....
"Well, first of all, Alec Baldwin was a tiny train conductor... " :)
Here's how the movie goes, in my opinion. This American Indian with long braids finds a child's drawing of a boy and recognizes the child in the drawing. There's a guy with a train in a cave. At some point a little girl follows a dog and gets on the wrong train and then gets in a car with a STRANGER to go to her grandfather's house. She climbs trees but can't ride a horse, then there is a lot of magical bouncing back and forth, including one part where Thomas sees a boxcar full of coal, presumably on a another track because he goes flying by it, and then when he screeches to a halt to go back to get it, it is mysteriously on the same track as him so he can couple right up to it. Even the kids watching thought that was crazy.
Towards the end, Peter Fonda inexplicably and with no context at all waves his fist and shouts "Green for Glory!" which put all the adults in the room into stitches.
The value this movie has is that it is so completely ridiculous you can make fun of it for a solid 85 minutes. The rest of it is so bizarro, so disjointed, and completely ridiculous... well, just don't torture yourself.
Keeps em' Occupied! August 18, 2008
I love this CD and so does my 3 year old who's a big Thomas fan. This is an excellent buy.
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