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Tooth Fairy
Score: 88%
Rating: PG
Publisher: Fox Home Entertainment
Region: 1
Media: DVD/1
Running Time: 101 Mins.
Genre: Comedy/Family
Audio: English 5.1 Dolby Digital,
           English Descriptive Audio,
           Spanish Dolby Surround, French
           Dolby Surround

Subtitles: English for the Deaf and Hard of
           Hearing, Spanish


Features:
  • Tooth Fairy Training Center
  • Fairyoke
  • Theatrical Trailer
  • Flicka 2 Sneak Peek
  • Sneak Peek

In Tooth Fairy, Derek Thompson (Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson) is a minor league hockey player, traditionally not known for being the nicest of guys, at least on the ice. Thompson is especially known for violence, so much so that he is nicknamed the "Tooth Fairy" for the number of teeth he's knocked out. But Thompson's been in the game for a while and isn't the youngest thing on the ice anymore. Off the ice, Derek is dating a single mom, Carly (Ashley Judd), with two children, a daughter Tess (Destiny Whitlock) and a son Randy (Chase Ellison). Derek's problems start when he decides not to leave the tooth fairy money under Tess's pillow and use it instead for his poker game. Luckily, her mom comes home and stops him from telling Tess that there is no tooth fairy, but the damage to Derek has been done. He is summoned as punishment for being a dream killer and has to serve time as a real Tooth Fairy. He is given pretty blue wings and a pink tutu. The Rock has played some amusing parts in the past, but seeing him in a pink tutu is the funniest I've seen yet! His case worker Tracy (Stephen Merchant) fixes the costume mistake and puts Derek into light blue silk, just a tiny bit more manly. But Tracy and Derek don't really get along so well. Derek has to go learn how to be a fairy and even fly, starting with training under Jerry (Billy Crystal). Once he's done with all this, he's sent back to the real world and thinks that it's all over.

Unfortunately for Derek, it's just started. As soon as his assigned kid falls asleep, he can't help the wings sprouting and costume changing, even if it's during the middle of a date or worse, the middle of a hockey match, making his real life very hard to cope with! But as Derek starts to learn, sometimes when you give a little, you get so much more! It's quite possible that becoming the Tooth Fairy could be the greatest thing ever to happen to him and his life, if he can pull it off. His trials are the funniest thing I've ever seen!

The Rock does a really good job playing the big jock that's clueless about real life at the start of the movie and by the end, he's learned how to be a good guy. He's played it in several movies before, but I think this is the funniest one yet. The humor is appropriate for all ages, so you can watch it with your entire family. I highly recommend actually watching the credits as well because the animations in them are hilarious.

There are a few special features as well. The Tooth Fairy Training Center is actually an exercise video geared towards kids. It does seem like everything now is trying to get kids more active, but it's cute to see how they customize the training to make you into a Tooth Fairy. During the movie, you heard "fairyoke" mentioned once. Well, in the special features, you can see Tracy and Derek sing "Wind Beneath My Wings" together. Fair warning, they're not professional singers for sure! Everything else in the extras are just sneak peeks at other movies.

As you might have noticed, I tend to review horror and sci-fi movies more than anything else. But when I saw the preview for Tooth Fairy on the Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel DVD, it just looked so funny that I wanted to see it, and I wasn't let down. It's a very good, family-friendly comedy that will leave you all laughing. I recommend everyone watch Tooth Fairy!



-Cyn, GameVortex Communications
AKA Sara Earl
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