Thomas & Friends! The Movie

Thomas & Friends: The Movie is a 2021 British-American computer animated adventure comedy film based on the television series, Thomas & Friends The film was directed by series creator Britt Allcroft, and stars the voices of Michael Cera, Josh Gad, Bill Hader, David Krumholtz, Ralph Finnes, Christina Applegate, Peter Dinklage and Ron Perlman. Released by Warner Bros. Pictures, Columbia Pictures, Village Roadshow Pictures and Walden Media in the U.S. and Canada and Entertainment One in the UK. The plot follows Diesel's plan to steal Spencer's royal express coach and send it to Death Country; there, Thomas and Percy must retrieve it to save Gordon's life from Spencer's wrath and their home island Sodor from Diesel's plan.

Pilot
The film begins with a live action sequence of a Train full of passengers on a tour of the countryside, when the passengers see a billboard showing a thomas movie in theaters now. So they sing Really Useful Engine along their way to the Movie Theater and sit in front-row seats to watch the film. In the movie proper, Thomas the Tank Engine (Voiced by Edward Glen) dreams about managing the new Knapford Station 2. The station is in trouble because a passenger has missed his train, but Thomas saves the day. He wakes up and cheerfully prepares for the opening ceremony for Knapford Station 2, hoping that his friend Gordon (Voiced by David Krumholtz) will promote him to manager of the new station. At the ceremony, Thomas is passed over; his friend James (Voiced by Bill Hader) is given the promotion because Gordon thinks he is "more mature" than him.

Meanwhile, Diesel (Voiced by Peter Dinklage) devises a plot to steal the plans to destroy Knapford Station 2 and frame Gordon. He steals Spencer's (Voiced by Ralph Finnes) Royal Carriage at night, sending it to Doom Country. That night, Thomas goes to the shunting yards and has fun bashing freight cars into each other with his best friend, Percy (Voiced by Michael Anglies), waking up the next morning with a headache. Spencer barges into Knapford Station 2, assaults and freezes Gordon. When Thomas arrives later, although he criticizes Gordon, he promises Gordon he will retrieve the coach from Doom Country. Spencer also tells him & Percy to return with the carriage in 8 days for him to kill Gordon into scrap So Thomas and Percy leave for Death Country.

Meanwhile, Thomas and Percy encounter a dangerous trench and are too scared to go in it but Spencer's daughter Lady (Voiced by Christina Applegate) helps them past it. They are stopped by Diesel 10 (Voiced by Ron Perlman) a diesel engine with a claw on his roof hired by Diesel to kill Thomas & Percy. He tries to kill them with his claw on his roof but is ran over by a scary steam engine called "The Nightmare Train". "The Nighmare Train" captures Thomas and Percy and takes them to a smelter's yard which is actually ("Doom Country"). At the yard, Thomas and Percy find the coach, but fall down into the furnace where they will melt into pieces. But just as they are about to die, they are rescued by Lifty the crane (Voiced by Damon Wayans Jr.). The Nightmare Train then tries to attack the tank engines but falls into the furnace and dies. Now free, Thomas and Percy take the coach and head for the Island. When they lose their way home where Ed Harris Himself offers them a ride in his helicopter. Diesel 10 catches up to them and tries to kill them but keeps failing when Thomas blows some steam into his eyes and is tossed into the air but is caught by Percy. Diesel 10 finally gets very angry and tries to kill them for real but end up falling down the helicopter and lands into a barge full of stinky fruits where he is towed away to the dumps. On Sodor, Diesel destroys Knapford Station 2 and replaces it with a Diesel Engine station, thus calling it: The Dieselworks, with the claim that Gordon told him to do it. James discovers the truth about Diesel stealing Spencer's royal coach, and tries to alert him. However, Diesel uses mind-controlling helmets disguised as souvenirs to control Sodor's engines and humans, including James, and renames the city Diesopolis.

Back at Dieselworks, Spencer arrives to execute Gordon. But Thomas and Percy arrive just in time with the coach, save Gordon and confront Diesel who drops a mind-control helmet on Spencer, enslaving him. But Thomas defends himself, plays "I'm a number 1 Engine (YEAH)", frees Sodor's engines and citizens & Diesel is arrested. Spencer thanks Thomas for his bravery and unfreezes Gordon, who makes Thomas manager of Knapford Station 2 in gratitude and after his first day the next day Thomas happily steams home to tell Percy about his first day of being manager. In a Post-credits scene, a theater usher (Britt Allcroft) tells the Tour Guide and the passengers to leave and they reluctantly comply.

Cast

 * Edward Glen as Thomas the Tank Engine


 * Bill Hader as James the Red Engine


 * David Krumholtz as Gordon the Big Engine


 * Peter Dinklage as Diesel


 * Ralph Finnes as Spencer


 * Christina Applegate as Lady


 * Ron Perlman as Diesel 10


 * Michael Anglies as Percy the Green Engine


 * Ed Harris as Himself


 * Hugh Keays Byrne as The Nightmare Train


 * Damon Wayans Jr as Lifty the Crane


 * Matthew McConaughey as Conductor
 * Donald Trump as himself
 * Greg Kinnear as narrator
 * Keke Palmer as Emily
 * James earl Jones as Henry
 * Donald glover as Edward
 * Ewan McGregor as Toby
 * Joey King as Rosie

Songs

 * Really Useful Engine Performed by Matthew McConaughey


 * Locomotion Performed by Rachael Crow


 * Little Engine Performed by Three Dog Night
 * Thomas the Tank Engine Performed by Carly Simon

Trivia

 * First Time Thomas is voiced by Edward Glen.