Review of Thomas & Friends: Calling All Engines!

Thomas & Friends: Calling & Engines! Is not a good Thomas and Friends movie but it's definitely better than that garage Thomas and the Magic Railroad movie that we don't talk about. The story of Thomas & Friends: Calling all Engine's is that a new airport is being built on Sodor to try and get more holiday tourists to come and visit the island and so the Fat Controller wants his engines to help build the airport however when Thomas goes to the yard Arry and Bert start teasing him. This then leads to Thomas playing a trick on them however a little later on Diesel tells Thomas that he has an important job to do and he hear that he had played a trick on Arry and Bert and so he tells Thomas not to play a trick on him but Thomas does it anyway and so he swaps Diesel's trucks of bricks with trucks full of bananas however later one that day when Thomas and the rest of his friends arrive home they find out that tidmoth sheds has been nocked down and it turns out that building the new ones was Diesel's important job but since Thomas gave him the trucks full of bananas what lead to the sheds being delayed so all the steam engines have to find a new place to sleep however over the night a big storm hits Sodor and damages a lot of the railway and leads to a lot of delays however later that day the steam engines and the diesel engines have fight and can't get along this then leads to Thomas telling everyone that they have to work together and get the airport build otherwise it will be bad for all the engines and so all engines then agree and decide to work together. The story for this movie sounds good but the problem with the story is that it is such a snore fest because the movie's passing is very slow. Another problem with the story is that there are stupid dumb learning segments that just drag out the runtime. There are some funny scene throughout the movie and there are a lot of great character interactions between Thomas and Friends mainly towards the end of the movie when there so close to finishing the airport. This movie's message is also quite nice where no mater what you look like you should just put your differences aside and work together. The message this movie teachs is definitely a much better message than what the message Thomas and the Magic Railroad was trying to teach us that for sure. The characters in this movie are decent. Thomas has a lot of his cheeky moments in this movie and it's nice how he has the idea on trying to get the steam engines and diesel engines to work together. James, Henry, Percy, Toby and Emily are also fine and they do have a lot of great character moments that actually sure a purpose to the story unlike Thomas and the Magic Railroad which didn't do that at all. Gordon is definitely the best in character because of how funny he is. Diesel, Arry, Bert are also fine and they also have a lot of great character moments as well. Mavis is really good in this movie mainly because she's now a nice diesel and given how before she was a bad diesel now we see that she has grown as a character ever since she got introduced back in series 3 of the tv series. This may sound shocking but Lady makes an appearance appears in Thomas dream and she's fine because in this movie she's just a figment of Thomas's imagination now that is how you work a magical engine into Thomas and Friends and not only that though she's definitely used better in this movie because she actually adds something to the story because she tells Thomas in his dream that they always finish there jobs when they work together, unlike Thomas and the Magic Railroad where she added nothing to the story whatsoever and all she was in that movie was a plot device and that's it. Diesel 10 also appears in this movie and he is definitely a lot better in this movie compared to the last movie because he actually adds something to the story unlike Thomas and the Magic Railroad where he added nothing to the movie and all he was in that movie was a character just to pad out the runtime and that's it. In this movie Diesel 10 helps Thomas to clear the track and after Thomas tells him what will happen if he doesn't to it he agrees to do it. The overall look of this movie looks very dull and plain. The best looking sets in this movie are the airport set, the brendum docks set, the suspension bridge set, and the church set. However the best part of the sets is the storm montage where we see the island of Sodor getting destroyed and the fact that it's all props is what makes it stand out. The music for this movie are decent as well. The songs Busy, Trying to do thing Better and Together we made it happen are all good. However the engine roll call song and the dream song are just okay. The narration from Michael Angelis and Michael Brandon is fine. The best narration from both of them is from the scene when there voicing Diesel 10 mainly from the growing song both narrators gave Diesel 10. Thomas & Friends: Calling all Engine's 4/10.