I can't believe that I actually watched this! I turned on the telly as I started feeding my son, and it just so happened to take about 90 minutes, so I ended up watching it all. Is that a valid excuse? It's quite odd because pains have been taken to style the whole film so that everything is green: black and green T-shirt on Patrick Smash (the boy with the titular pants), green cars, all the décor in the school is green. This is all evidence that the style has been thought about quite a lot; and not only that, but there are quite a number of high-profile actors. The likes of Paul Giamatti, Stephen Fry, Celia Imrie, Simon Callow and Ned Beatty and all make more than a passing appearance.
Yet at the end of the day the story is that of a young boy with persistent flatulence who wants to become an astronaut! Totally stupid, and it's not a good film; but perhaps worse is that there are plenty of "serious" films that are aren't as good as Thunderpants!
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