Monday, November 10, 2008

TINKER BELL (2008)

Director
Bradley Raymond
Producer
Jeannine Roussel
Screenwriter
J.M. Barrie, Jeffrey M. Howard
Starring
Mae Whitman, Kristin Chenoweth, Anjelica Huston, Kathy Najimy, Pamela Adlon, Jane Horrocks, Jesse McCartney
Studio
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Release Date
28 October 2008 (USA)
Official website
http://www.disney.com.au/DisneyOnline/fairies/movies/movies.html

Sweet and charming CGI Disney movie

Synopsis:
Tinker Bell must save Pixie Hollow by finding the true magic of pixie dust.

Review: After spending decades as little more than Peter Pan, Walt Disney’s favorite fairy finally gets a tale of her own in Disney’s Tinker Bell, who’s a major supporting character of Peterpan, a playful, headstrong and ultimately powerful little blonde fairy. "Tinker Bell" is a nice introduction to the frisky fairy and her friends. The image appears to be fairly accurate, too, because the young Tink in the film is so stubborn just as Peter Pan fans would expect her to be.

Tinker Bell introduces us to the origins of this little fairy. Brought to life by a baby’s first laughter, each new fairy flies to Pixie Hollow, where she then gets her wings and discovered her talent. When the new fairy, Tinker Bell (Mae Whitman), arrives, she discovers that she's a tinker fairy, which means that she is responsible for the creation of important devices that help the other fairies do their job.

However, as fairies are preparing to usher in another spring, Tink starts to feel inferior to the other fairies, and then struggles with the limitations of her birth (being a lowly fix-it fairy instead of one with more glamorous roles in life). After all, while stuck in the Tinkers' corner, in collaboration with Clank and Bobble (Jeff Bennett and Rob Paulsen) to make teapots out of acorns, her nature fairy friends are preparing for an exciting trip to mainland.

Determined to join the other fairies in the continent, Tink recruits her friends to help her change her talent, but she soon learns that she's a tinker fairy for a very good reason. And, finally, she achieve the success and happiness as a true tradition of Disney.

Tink is surrounded by all sorts of cute new characters, too, and each one adds to the charm of the film. You’ll meet Tink’s friends, the nature fairies (voiced by Kristin Chenoweth, Lucy Liu, America Ferrera, and Raven-Symoné). Each has its own style, its own personality, its own special abilities, and although not a lot of time on the screen, you still get to know each of them. The movie’s animation is also very nice. From the fairies' costumes to their bright, natural environment, everything is crisp and colorful, and the characters look almost natural. The CG sets are filled with all kinds of imaginative little details, from acorn teapots to carts made out of seeds.

Colorful, fun and unremarkable, Tinker Bell is much better than the average of children movies, and while the backgrounds in most scenes are predictably static, given the modest budget of this sort of production, it generally looks pretty good. Despite the story offers some adorable characters and a sprinkling of laughs, it still mentions a valuable lesson, but really isn’t really new. The moral of the story is to be proud of who you are, 'Be true to yourself and anyone can be a hero. "





Did you know?
* Mae Whitman replaced Brittany Murphy as the voice of Tinker bell.
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