What are we gonna do with Dwayne Johnson? Seriously, the man is fit enough to destroy a robot with a single fist to the face but he’s too busy entertaining kids, not that I’m against family movies but after The Game Plane and Race To Witch Mountain and Planet 51, you would think he’d shift gears again. If you have kids,… if you have little cousins or nieces, this will be the perfect movie to take them to. It’s got decent message and values. But for the rest of us, it’s downright painful to watch Johnson wearing tutu.
Dwayne Johnson is “The Tooth Fairy,” also known as Derek Thompson, a hard-charging minor league hockey player whose nickname comes from his habit of separating opposing players from their bicuspids. When Derek discourages a youngster’s hopes, he’s sentenced to one week’s hard labor as a real tooth fairy, complete with the requisite tutu, wings and magic wand. At first, Derek “can’t handle the tooth” – bumbling and stumbling as he tries to furtively wing his way through strangers’ homes…doing what tooth fairies do. But as Derek slowly adapts to his new position,he begins to rediscover his own forgotten dreams.
The humor in this movie is fairly weak. There’s only a few moments that might make you chuckle but for the most part, it’s stale. Not just the crickets, you could probably hear the ants crawling, that’s how excruciatingly unfunny the jokes are. The whole Tooth fairy kingdom is run like fairy-equivalent to Bond’s MI6.. there’s Julie Andrews that’s sorta like the M, Billy Crystal who provides the gadgets, his character’s name is even called Q, there’s lots of other 00 agents or fairies doing the same thing Johnson’s character Thompson does. Even Crystal and Andrews are unable to steal the show, that trophy goes to the Thompson’s guide Tracy played by Brit comic Stephen Merchant whose hilarious eye-balling attitude and Cheshire Cat-like smile could stand up to Thompson.
I should’ve known this would be a less than ordinary movie-watching experience, after all, it’s directed by the guy who brought us Santa Clause 2. Storywise, let’s just say that it does what it’s supposed to. I don’t think younger viewers will get bored, they’re still at the point in their age where they can still be easily amused by a tiny person running away from a giant cat. The amnesia powder kinda reminds you of that flash of light Men In Black use to make people forget..but the kids probably won’t remember such a comparison. I do have one good thing to say about the story though, often times when adults have a bad day, they’d take it out on their family, making them feel as worthless and crappy as they are at that moment, there is a scene in this movie that correctly shows that, it maybe well be a big reason for why a lot of families today don’t stay together, because the adults would bring their workplaces grudges home and forget that the kids still want to think that the world is a good place where dreams could come true.
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