Thursday, 24 August 2017

Thomas & Friends Journey Beyond Sodor - The Movie Spoiler Free Review

When I first went to buy this movie at Walmart I was a really hoping for a 1080pHD Blu-Ray release, but since the staff have changed from Hit Entertainment to Mattel Creations all they will give us now are 480p DVDs that aren't great if you don't have a Blu-Ray player with 1080pHD up-scaling.

Hit Entertainment/Mattel have released every movie since Misty Island Rescue on Blu-Ray so I don't really see the reason for them to stop this year other than Mattel wanting to cheap out and cut production cost's.

The animation was great, but the engine bouncing was annoying like Chuggingtion. A good change they made is the troublesome trucks have lines now and they interact with the engines and I like how the workmen are more active with the engines as well.


Some of the songs were good, but some of them reminded me of music from previous movies and its as if they took background music from Tale of the Brave and re-used it and one of the sing-along songs sounded like a The Great Race song with the words changed.

Over all I really like this movie and hate it at the same time. Its hard to explain, but its not the best Thomas special and I think Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure was way better.