Thunderpants

Thunderpants is a British family comedy about Patrick Smash, an eleven-year-old boy with two stomachs and an uncontrollable gift for flatulence. Mocked at school and a burden at home, Patrick finds his only friend in Alan A. Allen, a classmate with no sense of smell but a talent for invention. Alan builds him a pair of trousers that channel his gas into propulsion, letting Patrick fly and pursue his dream of becoming an astronaut. His ability brings him fame, then trouble, and eventually draws the attention of figures far more powerful than his schoolyard tormentors.

Peter Hewitt directed and co-wrote the film with Phil Hughes. It followed The Borrowers in his filmography and came before Garfield. The cast includes Simon Callow, Stephen Fry, Celia Imrie, Paul Giamatti, Ned Beatty and Bruce Cook as Patrick, among 40 credited performers. Produced in the United Kingdom by CP Medien, Pathé Pictures International and Mission Pictures, it had a budget of 7 million USD and took 3 million USD worldwide.

Audience response has been low: on IMDb it holds 3.8/10 from around 6,400 votes, and on TMDB 3.4/10 from 92 votes. Those figures suggest a comedy that found little favour with viewers.