punchersponge This movie is horribly okay they get a lot of grammar wrong I guess this movie was written by writers on such bad shows like Henry Danger, Fanboy & Chum Chum , Oggy And The Cockroaches , And Mickey Mouse Cult house. At least it wasn't as bad as Thomas seasons 8-16 I'll tell you that much. The only thing that I liked about it was that it had some great performances from Peter Fonda and Alec Baldwin and it's dedicated to the rev. w . aw-dry. The trains having to work for the hell of it is kind of stupid. I mean there is no people on railway maybe paramount pictures thought it would be a bit scary for kids because that the people figures would look stoned. And that's a bit creepy but they did for seasons 1-11 so why the hell would they just take them out I just don't know. Also I'm pretty sure Patch would get arrested by police because he lost Lily but Lily's grandfather or uncle just doesn't care maybe they're gonna both end up in jail just two partners in crime. So that's all bye-bye.

Python Hyena Thomas and the Magic Railroad (2000): Dir: Britt Allcroft / Cast: Mara Wilson, Alec Baldwin, Didi Conn, Peter Fonda, Russell Means: Pathetic family film about adventure where Alec Baldwin states, "Now I've completely lost my sense of direction." That can explain this career move. He plays an idiot named Mr. Conductor who talks to a baseball bat. One wonders why that bat wasn't put to good inflicting a serious beating on Mr. Conductor. He blows a whistle and gold dust transports him to any destination. I could have used some during the screening. He enlists the help of Thomas the tank engine in locating the lost railroad. Peter Fonda plays a fellow who reads a book called The Romance of Railroads, which proves that he needs laid by anything other than an object. Director Britt Allcroft is given fifty cents for a budget that will result in the stupidest family film since Barney's Great Adventure. Mara Wilson was appealing in Matilda but she isn't doing herself any favors here. Didi Conn has a reputation for family fare but seeing her reduced to this sort of garbage is just shameful. These trains speak by moving their eyes and not their mouths. Perhaps the train was too embarrassed to have an actor like Fonda reduced to this garbage. Such dreadful production values should never be approved to anyone with an intelligence. This film is a totally contrived train wreck. Score: 1 / 10

bruener I may get lots of haters after this review but how and ever. Thomas and the Magic Railroad is a movie by Britt Allcroft. It was universally panned by critics and some fans for Americanizing Thomas which I find "bulls***". People outside of America were also unaware of the Shining Time Station characters. Who cares? The mystery is in the movie, you'll get to know them! Some of these reviews aren't accurate as it says "kids want special effects and cute characters, this movie has neither". Yes, it does have both. The special effects is the magic dust coming off Lady as well as the gold dust coming out of Mr. and Jr. Conductors' whistles. Cute characters include Lily, Lady and Thomas at times. The adventure was so done up. While it may confuse very young kids though it is suitable for them, they'll understand it in a few years time. The main thing I absolutely ADORED though was the soundtrack. Hummie Mann is a genius! Maren Ord absolutely sings her soul with the lovely song 'Shining Time' and don't get me started on Dayna Manning's ravishing ballad 'I Know How the Moon Must Feel'. The soundtrack is absolutely amazing and that's what made me mainly love this movie. The only flaw I find in this movie is the trains' mouths aren't moving when they're talking which is weird but overall, very good classic movie in my opinion. I don't care if I don't know other characters from a cartoon from a foreign country!

Thomas Stansfield That infamous rebuttal 'It's a kids film' is definitely one of the lamest and weak rebuttals I've ever heard in my life. Just because it's a movie focused to children doesn't mean it's good or have some effort in towards it. This movie is ridiculous and has serious plot hole. You have Lady, a magical engine that provides magic on the railroad that powers up the universe between Shining Time and Sodor and if the RR has no power it will vanish for good. Yet in the movie, Shining Time is being all empty, quiet and rotting away because of no magic, in Mr. Conductor's dream and in one part of the movie, yet Sodor is all fine and dandy wouldn't the Island of Sodor be in peril too? This film has many unexplained plots, why is there another portal to the MRR? In 1999 draft script of the movie, yes there's a Director's cut, the MRR is a railway system, but why keep the portal scene in the final product? The whole magic concept is ridiculous and stupid when it comes to the world of Thomas the Tank Engine. The show, when it was first seen 30 years ago on British TV, were based on a series of books made by the Rev.W.Awdry called 'The Railway Series', the books shows us the engines of Sodor working on the railway with real railway practice. When this movie came out, the books were ignored and the stories from the TV series were written by other writers, this was after the passing of the author. Britt Allcroft, the former producer of the series, thinks the characters in a magical point of view and while I do respect her, this would be her awful decision. The movie ignored the British roots of the series and it made Sodor more universal rather then a fictional island being part of the real world. Lady is a terrible character, she has no personality and had four pointless lines, in the DC she was to interact with Thomas in a telepathy way. Diesel 10, Splatter and Dodge are your typical Hollywood characters, Diesel 10 the crazy villain and Splatter and Dodge the dumb sidekick characters. The voice actors for the engines, no offense towards American and Canadians, were bad as it gives the tag 'Americanisation' towards Thomas the Tank Engine, even American and Canadian purists of Thomas hate this movie too, most of them are Canadians and Americans impersonating the British accent with Britt Allcroft being the voice of Lady as the only British VA. The DC was to have some British and one Australian VA but was kicked out of it because an L.A test audience think they sound either too old or scary. The human characters are OK Alec Baldwin and Mara Wilson were good but Peter Fonda just over acts depressed, even though many kids films do have sad scenes but Fonda's more depressive. But hey it's a kids film we shouldn't criticise it right? right? OF COURSE NOT! The CGI Thomas specials (KOTR and TOTB) are far more better then this film.