![]() "Tooth Fairy Training Center" (20:29) is actually a kid-centric exercise program, with a cheery host leading a group of "recruits" in a series of stretches and workout routines themed as training for fairy combat. Final A/V was not available.Įnglish SDH and Spanish subtitles are offered. Instead, the film remains in a comedy coma.ĭVD Talk was only sent a DVD-R screener for review. ![]() Perhaps I was expecting too much from something this unsophisticated and pun-crazy, but with Andrews and Merchant in supporting roles (Seth MacFarlane cameos, as does Billy Crystal, reminding the world that his eight-year-long exile from movies was justified), "Tooth Fairy" could've made a few left turns to engage older viewers. ![]() It's a feature built around the high-concept idea of a burly jerk sentenced to a fairy world, but there's nothing even remotely clever here to feast upon, blowing a perfect opportunity to razz the conventions of masculinity with a few puckish jokes that didn't involve Johnson making bug-eyed faces or subjecting himself to some sort of VFX humiliation. The screenplay for "Tooth Fairy" is credited to five writers, which is an insane notion if one considers how banal the jokes are and how pre-digested the emotion is in the film. It's a fantasy-comedy that shines a blinding slapstick spotlight on Johnson that's completely undeserved, but man-oh-man does the actor ever enjoy his ample screen time mugging like a lunatic for the camera. The twist here is magic, the fairy kind that lends the former Rock a pair of CG wings, dresses him up in powder blue silk pajamas, and has the former professional wrestler trading punchlines with a perennially regal Julie Andrews. Overall, the movies share the same idea: ego-drenched sports hero finds salvation in the purity of kids. Fortunately, "Tooth Fairy" is not a Disney film, it's a Fox release, meaning it's simply idiotic and shoddily produced rather than maliciously sentimental. The Disney hit gave Johnson the confidence to take on more lucrative family entertainment, assuming this was his core demographic after all his action bonanzas fizzled at the box office. On assignment to retrieve various loose teeth, armed with a magic pouch of tricks, Derek is required to consider real magic and the power of dreams as he furiously attempts to balance life as a fairy with his hockey hopes. Summoned to the land of fairies for the crime of disbelief, Derek is fitted for wings and sent into service as a Tooth Fairy, under the guidance of bosses Lily (Julie Andrews) and Tracy (Stephen Merchant). A loudmouth cynic who's seen his own dreams crushed by injury, Derek spreads his bile to Tess (Destiny Whitlock), explaining to the six-year-old girl that there's no such thing as a Tooth Fairy, horrifying her mother/Derek's girlfriend, Carly (Ashley Judd). I've always hoped Johnson would find a proper footing in Hollywood, but if he's going to waste his affability on nonsense nosepicker entertainment, there's little motivation to remain interested in his future cinematic activities.ĭerek (Dwayne Johnson) is a minor league hockey titan who earns his nickname "Tooth Fairy" for the way he smashes into his opponents on the ice. Though I suppose it's harmless in the long run, "Tooth Fairy" is profoundly unfunny and infuriatingly conventional, forgettable the very minute it commences. ![]() ![]() I've attempted to be kind to Dwayne Johnson in the past, trying to find some mythical sense of upside to dreck like "The Rundown," "Doom," and "The Game Plan." Well, the honeymoon is officially over if "Tooth Fairy" is any indication of Johnson's career ambition. ![]()
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