First off, this movie gives very little screen time to Thomas despite the fact the movie says "Thomas and the Magic Railroad". It gives more focus on the human characters, which are Mr. Conductor, Lily, Patch, Junior, and Burnett. Although it's kinda interesting for the Thomas series to feature live action humans, it doesn't really give Thomas a starring role at all. It's like Mr. Conductor unfairly stole Thomas' role, probably because the staff of the film thought is was a great idea to use live action humans for more action, but it kinda fails to do so. But the humans are a bit interesting but still, it's misleading.
Also, it's pretty lazy as well. In fact, how did James even get in that red room? It's not like he would magically appear in it, that literally makes no sense. And also, how did Diesel 10, Splatter, and Dodge instantly get to the spot where Lady is? Again, they wouldn't magically appear. And Splatter and Dodge mysteriously disappeared.
The vehicle characters are good besides Splatter and Dodge, but they do have some issues. Lady literally comes to life too late in the film, and she got WAY too little screen time to make her fully introduced, which is another example of the staff of the movie being lazy. Also, Edward, the first ever character to appear is absent, which is disappointing because he is the second most important character (who is beaten by Gordon) in the entire series. That is because that the staff didn't have enough time to get his model ready, so they wanted to rush to the movie immediately and forget one of our three most important characters? Come on! Stop disrespecting Edward! Also, James and Percy have the worst voices of this movie. It's not that hard to know why, but I will explain. THEY. SOUND. LIKE. FEMALES. James and Percy are males, why do they need female voice actors? That's STUPID!
But there are at least a few good things about it. Mr. Conductor is a pretty interesting character considering the fact that he is small (for some reason), and he used gold powder to make him teleport, which is nice, and the other humans characters are somewhat interesting, but not really interesting enough to be improvable. Also like I said, the vehicles besides Splatter and Dodge are all good, and Diesel 10 makes a pretty good villain, who would later appear in other movies. The models are still great, and the acting is good. Even Neil Crone reprised his role of Gordon in All Engines Go!
It's not really a good way to start the Thomas movies though. It would've been better if the staff of the movie aren't so reckless and lazy to make this movie a mess.
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