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2002 Certificate PG
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Patrick, a ten year old boy, wants to become an astronaut. His claim to fame is his ability to break wind. With a friend's help Patrick travels to the US Space Centre where he has the chance to realise his ambition... Read more

Starring Rupert Grint, Bruce Cook, Simon Callow, Stephen Fry
Director Peter Hewitt
Genres Children

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Thunderpants

Patrick, a ten year old boy, wants to become an astronaut. His claim to fame is his ability to break wind. With a friend's help Patrick travels to the US Space Centre where he has the chance to realise his ambition...

Starring Rupert Grint, Bruce Cook, Simon Callow, Stephen Fry, Celia Imrie, Paul Giamatti, Ned Beatty
Director Peter Hewitt
Studio PATHE DISTRIBUTION
Run time DVD: 1 hr 24 mins
Certificate Certificate PG
Genres Children
Language DVD: English
Released DVD: 18 Nov 2002
Production year: 2002
Format DVD

  • Critics' reviews (2) of Thunderpants

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  • 1 stars out of 5

    This excruciatingly vulgar comedy fantasy is an absolute stinker. Ten-year-old Patrick Smash (Bruce Cook) was born with two stomachs, which cause him to break wind continuously. When his boffin pal Alan A Allen (Harry Potter's Rupert Grint) designs a pair of Heath Robinson-like trousers allowing flatulence storage, Patrick's power-farting attracts the attention of the US Space Center which is in desperate need of a new method of propulsion. A total waste of everyone's time and talent, Peter Hewitt's dismally juvenile caper is tediously and relentlessly unamusing. Lacking any charm whatsoever, even in its retro Beano-style design and lampoons of other better movies, this pathetic British embarrassment is, quite frankly, pants.

    • Radio Times
    • Posted 29 Jan 2006

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    • Posted 04 Nov 2008

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  • 14 out of 22 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 5 stars

    An absolutley hilarious film.

    For children and adults alike. Toilet humour is always funny for children. Both of my children (aged 6 and 3) thought is was the finniest film they'd ever seen. A really good family film for a night in.

      • vanjonesy from Warwickshire
      • Posted 17 Nov 2003 12:17

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  • 1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

    Rated - 1 star

    'One Joke Film'

    The wurst film iv ever seen the actors act like a pile ov horse poo (which is hairy) they are talking a pair ov pants (literally!) all the way through the actors are like a two-man freak show let alone having to act as them! The farting kid is fat, waddles, he has a tub head and haircut, and to top it off he FARTS! He wonts to be astronaut aswell! Guess how this phone call will go:' Hi Mr. Space I am fat, i waddle i fart like a 10 ton hippoptotamus and i have a head the shape of a pudding bowl' Oh yeah that'll go down well! The whole film summed up in 1 sentance is a disgrace to any country (even Wales).

    windSOCK--

      • A customer from wales
      • Posted 29 Dec 2006 16:21

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