It is going to accomplish its ostensibly stated goal, entertaining children, but outside of a few laughs here and there it's not going to do much for anyone else. It's stuffed full of legitimate talent and it remarkably doesn't feel like a cynical cash-in, it just feels diluted. You want this film to be better, just because it could have been. Six year old kids will probably laugh their six year old heads off, but the dullness of the script, the predictability of the gags and the moral convenience and simplicity of the story is going to bore anybody not actually invested in the "ok wait is there actually a tooth fairy or not, dad" debate. A bad deed on the part of a tough minor-league hockey player (Dwayne Johnson) results in an unusual sentence: he must serve one week as a real-life tooth fairy. It's also incredibly dull, and a massive waste of what's actually a great cast - Merchant is consistently funny and Billy Crystal is in vintage form as Fairyland's gadgetmaster Q equivalent, and Johnson is as charming as ever. It's a kids movie, pure and simple, endlessly saccharine and full of pratfalls, Healthy Moral Lessons and magic fairy dust. Lessons are learned, a whole bunch of obvious groaner gags are hatched, and everything, eventually, from a guitarist kid's fear of failure to a single mom's love to a future hockey star's cockiness and on and on is resolved in a Really Pleasant Way. As a result, he is summoned to Fairyland, and sentenced by head fairy Lily (Julie Andrews) to two weeks' duty as a Tooth Fairy, a real-deal winged creeper with a bat-belt full of spy gadgets and a lanky, awkward case worker with fairy aspirations of his own (Stephen Merchant, co-creator with Ricky Gervais of The Office). He's a cartoon pragmatist, dispensing hard truths about the impossibility of dreams coming true to young hockey players wanting to be just like him. He started as a skill player, a dangler, an offensive prospect that had his dreams dashed by a shoulder injury, and he's now happy to play a couple of minutes a night, hammer the opponents' star player, and spend the rest of the game in his custom recliner in the penalty box. Dwayne "the Rock" Johnson plays Derek "the Tooth Fairy" Johnson, the beloved bruising left-winger on the local minor hockey team. maybe it's not the worst idea in the world. Except the kitten is kind of an asshole and it's 1956 so we're not actually at war with Japan anymore, so you know. It's unclear why he chose this particular movie to grace with an uncredited performance, but his Jerry the Fairy is, along with Merchant's Tracy, one of the best reasons to see what's otherwise a so-so movie with a lovely but obvious message about children - and adults - needing to have dreams.Trying to level any serious criticism at director Michael Lembeck's Tooth Fairy is like four hardened grizzled WW II vets hand-cranking one of those rotating anti-aircraft guns with four different barrels pointing at a bunch of screaming Japanese Zeros around so they can blast an orange kitten out of a tree. It's always good to see Andrews in any capacity, and it's an even bigger treat to see Billy Crystal, who somehow came out of live-action semi-retirement to play the fairy in charge of gadgets. The Rock looks comfortable enough, but there's just not much to his character that isn't summed up in the trailer. But with his dry wit and hilarious body language, Merchant at least livens up some of the bland jokes and predictable sight gags. It's not that the movie is completely awful, but it is awfully derivative and absolutely nothing parents haven't seen before. Tooth Fairy Blu-ray Double Feature: Tooth Fairy (Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson) / Tooth Fairy 2 (Larry the Cable Guy) 2-Movie Collection Dwayne Johnson 4. That's not a bad combination for a comedy, but it's gangly, bug-eyed British comedian Merchant ( Ricky Gervais' creative partner in crime) who steals the show in this sugar-sweet kids' fantasy. With a blend of humor and heartwarming moments, it offers a fun and entertaining experience for. The Rock has the powerful body of Arnold Schwarzenegger and the easy charm of Vince Vaughn, with a blindingly white smile that's hard to ignore. Tooth Fairy is a light-hearted and enjoyable family comedy.
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