Thomas and the Magic Railroad (2000) Review - Nitpick Critic 

It really is hard to dislike something so ingrained into your childhood.

I used to love this movie as a child, in fact i still own it on dvd. While i recognize its flaws now, i still really like it. And man i wish Splatter and Dodge showed up again, they were fun to watch

Boy, that was a fun, wild ride. I can’t wait for season 6.

That was probably one of the best reviews of this film I have ever seen. I tried to do my own review of this film for one of my college classes but I don't think I did a good job. Well done Nick, you get a chef's kiss.

I love this! You know the true spirit of Thomas the Tank Engine and what Britt Allcroft intended to do. Definitely the most in depth review I have seen, justifying its length.

It's nice to see a positive review on TATMR! Especially regarding the resent DC. This movie does'nt get enough love!

here's something that I find interesting. the magic railroad CGI segments weren't originally going to be CGI. there was footage shot with Thomas shot on a blue screen. but, they weren't used

As i TATMR fan myself i love the movie (even with it's flaws) but it shouldn't be harshfully bashed as it was

Keep up the good work, brotha! Great review and insight on Thomas the Tank Engine!

I have another question for you nitpick critic. When you get back to thomas commentaries, will you do the other movies of thomas in between seasons like this one? Just thinking ahead.

Definitely a great review, Thomas & Friends has been a big part of my childhood and this movie was no different. I will add one note for you on why this movie didn't do so well, just an opinion. Shining Time Station was a kids show for the US/Canadian market, I grew up watching this show as well, however this show never made landfall in the UK where Thomas & Friends originated from. In which case, audiences from that country and many others would have no idea how Shining Time Station got in the picture

Did they use Lionel models?

When will thomas and friends season 6 come out? Very excited for it

A very well-executed review. Thomas & the Magic Railroad was a cornerstone of my childhood. I've come to learn that everyone has their own respective opinion on the film, and I fully respect that. But personally, I will always view this film as being one of the best aspects of the Thomas & Friends community. And since I realize you pointed out that Edward didn't appear once in the film, which I agree is very strange, I wanted to propose something. In the scene where Mr. Conductor is talking to James at the Sheds, in the background you can see a train being bulled on one of the tracks next to the sheds. We don't see who is pulling this train, so given that, I like to believe that it's Edward. In other words, I think he actually might've been given a cameo, just an "unseen" cameo. And yes, I do believe such a thing is possible. Anyways, I gotta say, this review was worth the wait. And it makes me even more excited to watch the commentaries for Season 6.

17:21 21% on Rotten Tomatoes? No, Thomas and the magic railroad deserves way more than this

29:54 Bertie's driver can be seen in a close-up shot of Bertie at one point in the film. That is the only figurine seen in the entire film. I guess the production crew forgot to remove him.

For me, I remember wanting to see Lady more after the movie. She's an unique character but sadly she only was in Calling All Engines afterwards. Another thing is the paintings which how does one lock a painting doorknob? It's one of the strange things I still don't understand. I also wasn't dumb. "Diesel 10 is back" well I was just a young kid and obviously I knew no such diesel existed before TATMR. There are other things that I quickly didn't understand since it doesn't line up with the timeline of the show and how it's explained how magic keeps the trains sentient let alone existing. Doesn't make sense. The only best things is Lady came out of it. Literally that's it. The story is good enough for my personal liking even with its confusing and unexplained moments or segments. Hey it's better than watching a heavy logging locomotive go over a bridge that clearly shouldn't be holding any weight (not to mention the toys kinda were flawed in one way or another basically the rolling stock were the best things out of them). All in all, Thomas and the Magic Railroad is best left as a stand-alone movie being it's kinda it's own thing. Except for D-10 and Lady making their appearances later. Would've loved to see more Lady the Magic Engine though. I still understand most of it though only snippets I don't fully understand. I do think the funniest scenes are with Junior

Amazing Review Man! Keep up the good work!

That Thomas Sleeping Bag is definitely old school! 32 years! The year was 1992!

What an interesting review of the movie, seriously! Great job! I can't wait to see you review season 7

Ha! Video bomb by Theodore! Awesome review Nick!

I legit didn't know the final product we got wasn't the intended film 😳

They's recently released the blu ray which includes the villain that was intended to be in the film but was cut.

I want to the original version Brit had before it was edited

According to executive, after cutting room floor they want this film more Thomas and friends centric and yet they simply edited it and add few new scene, which is underwhelming and completely screwed up.

You fan of Harry Potter. Fun fact; a toy Thomas makes a cameo in film 3. In the scene where Lupin teaches Harry the patronous charm near the end the scene on a spinning contraction you can see a toy Thomas with Annie and Claribel.

The movie was tremendously magical, and a part of my childhood. I heard that this Gil was nominated two times for Mara Wilson’s performances, and the British children loved the Shining Time conductors as well as Thomas at the premiere.

This movie deserves more attention and deserves more Love than hate

Thank you for saying this at least I know there are some people out there that truly do care just because it was a failure it was way better than movies today

When are you going to do season 6? I love this movie when I was a kid and still do great work as always

I wanna put something out there about everyone's complaints about Thomas and the crew having static faces. At the time, it never bothered me because that was the ICONIC LOOK of the series. While I do love how the range of expression have increased when they went full CGI, at the time the charm of Thomas came from how the series was made, narrator and how it LOOKED and that included the fact that they used clever cuts and camera angles to cover for the fact that they were filming models. Thomas' emotions work because of the facial expressions and the way the eyes move, with the help of the narrator doing the voices. But even if there were no narrator, just the LOOKS and the way the eyes move are enough to show how a character is supposed to feel. And it's not like Thomas was the only series that did this. There were series BEFORE Thomas that took this limited approach but again, there's just something about Thomas that made it so iconic that at the time, betraying it in favor of CGI would have made fans UPSET as it did when they slowed transitioned into first the CGI faces and then went 100% CGI. But from how the critics used it, it comes off as if they themselves have never seen the series and I can guess they probably didn't. Maybe if they were parents, aunts and uncles or watched the series with children they would get it but all the complaints about the faces just REALLY slams in how they were viewing the film and it wasn't as a Thomas film but any other generic 'kids movie'. If they KNEW about the series, they would have gotten it and pointed out that that's how the series is presented and shown but instead it was 'Static faces bad because other kids movies blurgh blurgh' Seriously, just think about it. If this movie had come out today and they claimed it to be an experimental an art film, these same critics would have praised the limited movements as groundbreaking and a bunch of other loaded terms that makes it clear they just want to SOUND SMART vs show what they really liked about the film out of entertainment and enjoyment. I'd rather hear from the fans and from them I've gotten a better understanding of what they hated about the film but also what they LIKED about it and I find it way more fun on top of informational than some overpaid critic who looks at films as a means of show casing just how 'refined' THEY are vs whether or not they really enjoyed. There is a difference. And to be honest; yes the movie is bad but it's so bad it's HILARIOUS. Plus the information that came out about what happened is SO fascinating and fun. Being American myself, I grew up with Shining Time and PT Boomer fits in so perfectly with the series that it is a shame he was cut out. He comes off as a more devious Schemer and even then Schemer would have thought this dude was too much. Can you imagine it if they went in even deeper and Schemer were in this film, and he was sort of lured into the plan only to turn his back on Boomer when things go bad. And what about the Jukebox crew? They could have had something where it's revealed that the crew can turn human in the Sodor bits much like how Mr. Conductor is tiny in the real world but on Sodor he's 'normal sized'. There are so many 'WHAT IFS' to this film and that's what keeps it so interesting.

Wise words!

What's even weirder about that Eric Idle narrated trailer is that when it was included on VHS' from Columbia/Tristar (the home video distributor of the movie), they got veteran voice actor Jim Cummings to dub over Idle's narration, but they left Thomas and Diesel 10's voices intact for some reason.

Have you seen the workprint and 20th anniversary blu-ray deleted scenes yet?

This is a good movie. Nuff said

Nice review

George Carlin's Mr C does talk to animals. Mainly in his spinoff series Mr Conductor's Thomas Tales

Day of the diesels was supposed to have splatter and dodge and then deleted then remade into den and dart

Anyone notice Thomas's whistle sounds different

This movie could've been so much better without the naive American test audiences complaining about everything. However we got what we got and we cant change it. Very thorough and well researched review btw! Keep it up! :)

While they didn’t did a good job with the official cast for Percy and James...I don’t thinkMichael Angelis would have worked either. He works for over the top narration, his voice acting in the work print wasn’t...great. He kept drawling out his words

Has anyone noticed the actor for patch looks like the actor for Hawk in cobra kai?

Wow your a bigger thomas fan then I might be congratulations

The director's cut wasn't actually 110 minutes, the true runtime is over two hours from my research, there are still missing scenes, like Burnett Stone building a birdhouse, toby being scared and hiding, and a lot more

Wow That Review was amazing you have a nice collection of Thomas and friends Models , Wooden Railway, Books And a Thomas sleeping bag? that's so cool I love yor collection The Thomas T Shirt looks good too , There was a lot you talked about I didn't know like tye Actors in the Magic Railroad did other films I knew Alec Baldwin was in Cats and Dogs and Ghost rider but most things I knew about too mentioned at the beginning Shed Q7 Included but that doesn't bother me Shed 17 isn't cannon I don't think anyway Deisel 10 is a cool villain in the Film Splatter and Dodge are funny I like then , the scene when Mr Conductor talking to a bat and ball that always makes me Laugh 😂😂😂

In my opinion, this movie is over-hated. Sure, it has its major flaws, but I can't help but love it. I already gave the movie an overall score of 7.5/10 stars in my own review of the movie (if you want to check that out on my channel). In fact, I take this movie over the 2021 Thomas reboot any day. Also, it's nice that you gave this movie a positive review because most reviews I've listened to were either negative or mixed. I mean, it's not a perfect movie, but it's much better than Barney's Great Adventure in my opinion!

47:20 --> Diesel 10 does the exact opposite on what the lesson he is about to give to Splatter & Dodge.

Great Review!

I take the magic railroad over big world big adventures any day. At least the soundtrack sounds beautiful.

Now up to 🍅21% 🍿42% but the movie deserves way more than this

You have great potential

6:01 I have that Theodore toy

can you do a jay jay the jet plane model series review

Finally! A review from someone who says this movie is good! The only flaws I think this movie truly has is its confusing story, handful of goofs and kiddish humor. But a lot of movies have mistakes, and a lot of movies have that kind of humor too. Even Disney movies like Aladdin and Lion King have that kind of humor and those movies have remained some of the best animated movies and not to mention one of the best movies of all time. This movie is TRULY an underrated gem and classic. Like Nitpick Critic already said, it's no masterpiece, it's not the kind of movie to get an Oscar or academy award, but it leave you with an impression and great feeling.

I'd rather watch this than the HIT era specials.

this movie is my number 1 (no pun instantiated there) favorite form my childhood and still to this day i was sad when i saw the rotten tomatoes on this movie 21% rotten tomatoe meter and i thought the movie is good and after seeing what mattel did to thomas in series 25 i'm still a fan thomas and friends series 1-24 but series 25 mattel i hope your for ruining my childhood show

I Love Thomas and the magic railroad

Or better yet, tara strong as young ben 10. (ITS HERO TIME)

8:50 Actually Random House is still a thing.

In my opinion this movie is a burning trash pile that doesn't deserve to have the T&F logo on it. My real problem with it is that it's too Americanized and T&F is NOT a "magical world in a alternate universe", it's a real working railway that co-exists with our world. The acting is sub-par, the plot is HORRENDOUSLY pathetic. This movie could never work no matter how many re-writes it gets. Additionally, after the movie bombed Allcroft was basically forced to sell the trademark to HIT Entertainment, and then we got the "New Series" which while not the worst era of the show, it's no classic series. I respect your opinion though. Great review! (I can't wait for you to talk about season 6!)

So the voice of thomas does anime

Noice.

I was a fan but it got old fast

You can thank Sony for this mess

I will be wondering if a "season 25" review? most likey not cuz its bad.... VERY bad

I think the live action should have never been but also it was immensely miscast. Peter Fonda can only play certain characters and even then he is not a good actor and Alec Baldwin would have been better as a live version of Sir Topham Hatt since he is so full himself. As a sortof fan of the series I am only interested in the the world of Sodor and talking trains.

Hi Nitpick Critic as you can tell by my RU-vid channel name, My name is Jose Gagnon and I just wanted to tell you that I am a very big Thomas the Tank Engine Fan especially cause on my channel I do a lot of Thomas the Tank Engine episode redubs, I also wanted to let you know that I am going to be making a very special Thomas the Tank Engine video where I will be explaining how the first 7 seasons of the show can be enjoyed by both Adults and Kids so I would appreciate it if you could check out the video when it gets posted on my channel and I also love your Thomas the Tank Engine commentaries they are great videos

After I saw the film I stopped watching the show

Boy Thomas and freinds durring ww2