So, I scammed the kiddo and myself into a free screening of the "Thunderbirds" movie starring Bill Paxton, Anthony Edwards and Ben Kingsley.
While there were no visible marionette's like in the original series, there was hella lot of puppet acting. So bad. The kiddo enjoyed it a bunch (started to say that it was better than Spiderman 2, but I think that was only cuz he was a smidge scared of Doc Ock at first - trust me, not a thing to be scared of in this movie except for the career slide of Oscar winning actor Ben Kingsley), so it ended up being worth the price of admission.
Oh, and juany, Lady Penelope is teh hawtz0r in the live action version, too, even if she does have a shit hairstyle near the end (think horrible beehive, if you must).