DVD $24.95. “Thomas and the Magic Railroad” is the first attempt of “Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends,” a PBS preschool show, to make the move to the silver screen. Though the movie is ...

Thomas and the Magic Railroad is an odd film ... My only recollection of the movie – before revisiting it here – was of seeing it back when it was released, and thinking it was a bit crap.

Mr. Conductor's supply of magic gold dust, which allows him to travel between Shining Time and Thomas's island, is critically low. Unfortunately, he doesn't know how to get more. Meanwhile ...

It's just as well the Rev. Wilbert Awdry's name is nowhere to be found on the credits of "Thomas and the Magic Railroad," as the ... modern Evil Diesel. In the movie, the Brit-voiced Thomas ...

Completely lacking the intriguing characterisation, wonder and zip of a good animated film, "Thomas and the Magic Railroad" spells out its simple plot ad nauseam and is so stretched that even ...

If only ”Thomas and the Magic Railroad” had an old-fashioned story to go with its winsomely ingenious design. The movie, I’m afraid, is as rambling and obscure as a ”Pokémon” mara-thon.

Completely lacking the intriguing characterisation, wonder and zip of a good animated film, "Thomas and the Magic Railroad" spells out its simple plot ad nauseam and is so stretched that even ...