Out of the newly retooled DisneyToon Studios came the Tinker Bell franchise. And the first
film, Tinker Bell, released in 2008
starred Mae Whitman, Kristen Chenoweth, Raven, Lucy Liu, and America Ferrera.
Released cinematically briefly at the El Capitan Theatre, it grossed $9.2
million and spawned a Nintendo DS adventure game.
Born from the first laugh of a
baby and brought to Pixie Hollow, Tinker Bell (Whitman) learns that her talent
is to be one of the tinkers, fairies who make and fix things. Taught by Bobbie
and Clank (Rob Paulsen and Jeff Bennett), her desire is to go to the mainland
for spring.
In terms of quality, Tinker Bell is surprisingly not that
bad. It has a pretty decent story in where Tinker Bell realizes that what she’s
good at is where she’s meant to be. But it doesn’t get through her thick skull
until she tries her hand at being a garden fairy, water fairy, light fairy,
animal fairy, and a fast-flying fairy. This may seem like it’s an incredibly
saccharine premise and that’s true, but the way the plot is handled actually
makes it decent.
It’s not paced like a television
show and actually has the stakes of a halfway decent children’s movie in Spring
itself is almost ruined because of Tinker Bell’s desires to not be just a
tinker. But it’s her near-genius skills as a tinker that saves the day.
I realize I’m coming off as
incredibly childish in giving a decent write up to a film marketed for girls,
but maybe that’s because I spent so much time watching those mind numbing
sequels. But still, for what it’s worth, it’s not amazingly perfect. But it’s
not downright awful either.
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