Thomas & Friends: Misty Island Rescue
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Directed by | Greg Tiernan |
Written by | Sharon Miller |
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Edited by | Kevin Pavlovic |
Music by | Robert Hartshorne |
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Running time | 58 minutes |
Countries | United Kingdom Canada |
Language | English |
Box office | $175,885[1] |
Thomas & Friends: Misty Island Rescue is a 2010 animated fantasy adventure film and feature-length special of the British television series, Thomas & Friends.[2][3][4][5] The special takes place in between the thirteenth and fourteenth seasons of the television series.
Plot
[edit]A new Sodor Search and Rescue Centre is being built for Harold the Helicopter, Rocky the Crane, and Captain, a new lifeboat. Jobi wood from Japan is needed in order to build it. All the engines want to help deliver the Jobi wood. Salty, the dockyard engine, tells the other engines a story about Misty Island, an island off the southern coast of Sodor that is perpetually surrounded by mist, potentially inspired by the mythical island of Brasil, although it is mentioned that, on occasion, the mist clears, allowing the island to be visible. Thomas the Tank Engine inadvertently insults Diesel for being a diesel engine, so Diesel tries to prove himself by taking the Jobi wood, resulting in a chase between him and Thomas, and all the Jobi wood being lost in the sea after Diesel almost falls off an unfinished bridge. Thomas saves Diesel and is rewarded with visiting the mainland. Being told there is no room on the boat, Thomas asks to be carried on a raft behind the boat. However, along the way, the chain to the raft snaps and, after falling asleep, Thomas wakes up only to find himself landing on a nearby island, Misty Island.
Thomas explores the island and soon finds it to be inhabited by the "Logging Locos", consisting of a Climax Class C engine named Ferdinand and two small twins, Bash and Dash, who were sent to the island after causing trouble on the mainland. As Thomas continues exploring the island, Sir Topham Hatt receives a call telling him Thomas is missing, prompting him, Harold and Captain to send out a search party to find him.
After seeing the entire island, Thomas discovers a logging station which the Logging Locos are running and learns that Misty Island is the only place other than Japan that grows Jobi wood. He and the others decide they want to go back to Sodor with some of the wood and use a tunnel that connects Misty Island to Sodor. However, as they are halfway through the tunnel, the tunnel caves in on both sides, causing them to get stuck. At the same time, the Logging Locos run out of oil due to Thomas using logging machines whilst on the island. Thomas finds a hole in the ceiling of the cave which gives him an idea: he can puff smoke out through the hole and alert his friends of his location. The smoke soon alerts the rest of the engines of Thomas's location, convincing his best friend Percy and the garbage dump engine Whiff to go into the tunnel. Percy alerts Thomas of his presence, convincing Thomas he should break through the caved-in rocks himself. However, Whiff sternly corrects Thomas, saying he knows the tunnel more than he does. Thomas is soon convinced, allowing Percy and Whiff to break through. The three then haul the Logging Locos out of the tunnel and take them to be fixed up. However, Sir Topham Hatt, Edward, James, and Gordon have all sailed to Misty Island in order to find Thomas, so Thomas rushes back to Misty Island and finds them just in time. Once he does, the Logging Locos are all welcomed to Sodor and there is a big celebration for the opening of the Sodor Search and Rescue Centre.
In a post-credit scene, Diesel 10, the main antagonist of Thomas and the Magic Railroad, watches the engines from above the rescue centre and vows that he will have revenge on the steam engines, foreshadowing the events of the following film Thomas & Friends: Day of the Diesels.
Voice cast
[edit]UK dub
[edit]- Michael Angelis as the Narrator
- Ben Small as Thomas, Ferdinand and Toby
- Matt Wilkinson as Bash, Victor, Rocky, Cranky, Kevin, the Dock Manager and Diesel 10
- Keith Wickham as Dash, Percy, Whiff, Salty, Edward, Gordon, James, Henry, Captain, Harold and Sir Topham Hatt
- Kerry Shale as Diesel
- Teresa Gallagher as Emily
- Togo Igawa as Hiro
US dub
[edit]- Michael Brandon as the Narrator and Diesel
- Martin T Sherman as Thomas and Percy
- William Hope as Bash, Whiff, Edward, Rocky, Toby and the Dock Manager
- Kerry Shale as Dash, Gordon, James, Henry, Harold, Kevin and Sir Topham Hatt
- Glenn Wrage as Ferdinand and Cranky
- Jules de Jongh as Emily
- David Bedella as Victor
- Keith Wickham as Salty and Captain
- Togo Igawa as Hiro
- Matt Wilkinson as Diesel 10
Reception
[edit]Common Sense Media gave the film 3 stars out of 5 and said of the film, "For fans of Thomas & Friends, this is standard fare and follows the formula that is well established."[6]
References
[edit]- ^ "Thomas & Friends: Misty Island Rescue".
- ^ "DVD Review: Thomas and Friends - Misty Island Rescue". NZ Herald. Retrieved 2021-05-06.
- ^ Simierski. ""Misty Island Rescue - A Review"". Retrieved 2021-05-06.
- ^ "Thomas & Friends: Misty Island Rescue Blu-ray & DVD Review". www.dvdizzy.com. Retrieved 2021-05-06.
- ^ Thomas & Friends: Misty Island Rescue Blu-ray Release Date September 7, 2010, retrieved 2021-05-06
- ^ Schonfeld, Renee. "Thomas & Friends: Misty Island Rescue". Common Sense Media. Retrieved 11 April 2021.
External links
[edit]- 2010 films
- 2010s American films
- 2010s British films
- 2010 computer-animated films
- 2010 direct-to-video films
- 2010s English-language films
- Animated films about trains
- British adventure comedy-drama films
- British computer-animated films
- British direct-to-video films
- Films directed by Greg Tiernan
- Lionsgate animated films
- Lionsgate films
- Mattel Television films
- Thomas & Friends films