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Not sure if this will become a full page, for now you can edit it, just don't vandalize it. Thomas & Friends: The Great Race' is a 2016 British animated film based on the Thomas & Friends franchise.

Why It Sucks

 * 1) There is loads, and loads of filler in the movie to where it's about 3/4ths filler!
 * 2) Most of the new characters where not introduced properly, most do not even have a single line of dialogue or contribute to the plot in any way, despite this, in the Big World! Big Adventures! rebrand of the franchise, the characters are brought back and treated as characters the audience already knows.
 * 3) Trailer-Bait: All the new characters received full individual videos explaining certain details about them like speed and strength and made it seem like they where all going to be big parts of the movie, but as mentioned above, most of these characters do not affect the plot.
 * 4) Ashima, one of the few newly introduced characters that contributes to the plot, is rather bland with nothing really unique to her character.
 * 5) Vinnie is just a generic unlikable bully character.
 * 6) Very unsatisfying and pathetic ending, when Thomas finally gets to compete in the Railway Show the whole movie was hyping up, he sacrifices winning the shunting contest to save Ashima, who was not on Thomas' side in any of the movie, from a very minor accident.
 * 7) Lots of scenes feel like they where only made to sell toys. Though this might be due to the huge amount of merchandise this movie has.
 * 8) While the story is interesting at first, it gets old fast.
 * 9) The moral is extremely hammered in.

Redeeming qualities

 * 1) Some of the songs are catchy.
 * 2) Gorgeous animation.
 * 3) The plot could have been interesting, it was just poorly executed.