I say seemingly as, at first, we’re never really sure whether Corey is seeing and hearing things or if the titular monster is actually back. Return of the Tooth Fairy is set 20 years (NOT the 15 it states in the press materials/synopsis) after the event of the original film and Corey (Jake Watkins), a survivor the the tooth fairy massacre is now grown up and seemingly suffering from PTSD. Without it there’s a lack of context and depth to what occurs in this sequel – motivations seem too shallow here without that deeper knowledge of what took place in Tooth Fairy. Unfortunately, to truly grasp what’s happening here, you really do need to have sat through the first film – even with the brief flashbacks and snippets of exposition from the cast of characters here. Thankfully it does outshine it, it outshines that first film a LOT. Which means that Return of the Tooth Fairy doesn’t really have to achieve that much to easily outshine its predecessor. The original film seemingly sold more, and well enough, on it’s cover art alone rather than word of mouth, because that word of mouth surely wasn’t too great. Which is how we’ve come to this… a sequel to Tooth Fairy. They’ve also managed to strike up quite the deal with US distributors, finding success on the shelves of Walmart’s across the States. And it’s certainly not a shining light in the output of Champ Dog Films who have been making inroads into the UK genre scene for some time now often times overcoming shortcomings, be they budget, production values or performances, to create genre fare worthy of carry the tag of “Great British Horror”. After all the original film, which we reviewed back in March, was pretty bad – even for low-budget British filmmaking. And the laws of diminishing returns… Dear god if that’s true I don’t know how the hell I’m going to get through Return of the Tooth Fairy. WITH: Dwayne Johnson (Derek), Ashley Judd (Carly), Julie Andrews (Lily), Stephen Merchant (Tracy), Ryan Sheckler (Mick Donnelly) and Billy Crystal.Stars: Jake Watkins, Katie McKenna, Chelsea Greenwood, AJ Blackwell, Venetia Cook, Gus Fithen, Simon Manley, Niru Sukanthan | Written by Tom Jolliffe | Directed by Louisa WarrenĪh, the joy of sequels. Clinton production designer, Marcia Hinds produced by Jason Blum, Mark Ciardi and Gordon Gray released by 20th Century Fox.
Flap, flap, flap: off he goes.ĭirected by Michael Lembeck written by Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel, Joshua Sternin, Jeffrey Ventimilia and Randi Mayem Singer, based on a story by Jim Piddock director of photography, David Tattersall edited by David Finfer music by George S. The embarrassing wings that sprout from his shoulders at the most inopportune moments will enable him to fly, but only if he believes that they can. Once Derek realizes that his cynical disbelief has hobbled his own career, he sees the light.
TOOTHFAIRY MOVIE MOVIE
But like most family films nowadays, the movie squanders a lot of energy righteously huffing and puffing its message: let kids dream.
Were these toys deployed with a lighter, more whimsical touch, “Tooth Fairy” might have been good, silly fun. Charisma? Yes, if you find a blindingly white grin attached to a shaved, over-muscled torso charismatic.ĭerek has at his disposal special tools that include an all-purpose magic-generator button invisibility spray shrinking paste that can temporarily reduce him to the size of a mouse dog-bark mints that turn speech into woofs and arfs and amnesia dust that erases short-term memory. Johnson, a k a the Rock, shows once again that he has no real acting talent.
There you have the slender, cutesy premise of the family comedy “Tooth Fairy,” directed by Michael Lembeck. Julie Andrews, looking much the worse for wear, plays Lily, fairyland’s scowling chief executive, who sentences Derek to two weeks of tooth-fairy duty: his assignment is to slip into children’s bedrooms and exchange dollars for baby teeth left under their pillows. Mortified to find himself suddenly sprouting wings and wearing a pink tutu, Derek is summoned to fairyland to be prosecuted as a dream killer. When Derek Thompson (Dwayne Johnson), a fading ice hockey star nicknamed Tooth Fairy for his habit of knocking out opponents’ teeth, scoffs at the young daughter of his girlfriend, Carly (Ashley Judd), for believing in the tooth fairy, the enchanted powers that be decide to teach him a lesson.
Woe to the grouchy sports hero who dares to tell children to stop believing in magic and give up their dreams.
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