Xpressions of Life

The Tooth Fairy...check!

If this is some kind of exam I actually doing pretty good. Haha, anyway I’m crossing Movie #3 from my movie watching to do list as I finally got to watched it in the cinema the other day. When was that eh? Couldn’t recall. But still, here’s a little something about that movie.

Movie Details:

Director: Michael Lembeck

Producers: Jim Piddock, Jason Blum, Mark Ciardi and Gordon Gray

Writers: Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel, Randi Mayem Singer, Josh Sternin, and Jeff Ventimilia

Principal Cast:

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson as Derek “Tooth Fairy” Thompson

Ashley Judd as Carly

Julie Andrew as Lilie The Fairy Godmother

Music: George S. Clinton

Cinematography: David Tatersall

Well, I think this movie is not so bad after all even when it comes into  family fantasy genre  – they’re not really my cup of tea. Released worldwide on the 22 of January, it is currently being played all over our local cinema. I am being pretty fair for this one; it is nice so I do recommend this to anyone who needs a good entertainment filled with more family values, which I guess this is what this movie The Tooth Fairy is all about.

Plot:

In this movie Dwayne Johnson played a minor ice hockey player who used to play in the big league but after sustaining heavy injuries that interrupts his play has been sidelined playing small games yet earned the title “The Tooth Fairy” (because he was so brutal in his games that he knocked the teeth off his opponents. There, he was one of the negative thinker , a dream killer – because he hasn’t been able to achieve his dreams in the sport he loved so much, he no longer believes in it. Thus becoming so negative that he don’t even bother to try doing it anymore – let alone trying to believe that other people can do so too…

Yeah, I do think he’s being an asshole. He deeply demotivated his young fan when he said the kid will never succeed and told him sarcastically that “dreams are useless”. Or something along the line. That scene was pretty awful actually, the look on that kid face…pft. Kesian.

Then after that, he did the same thing to his girlfriends’ 6 years old daughter, Tess. She just had her tooth come off, and well in American cultures – they believe in tooth fairy, where if your kids tooth come off you hide in under her pillow, then the fairy will come – taking the tooth away and give the kid a dollar as an exchange. But Derek told her that “there’s no such thing as a tooth fairy”. Committing a crime for “seeding disbelief among children”, found guilty by the Fairy World led by Julie Andrew’s character and thus, Derek “The Tooth Fairy” Thompson was sentenced to become a real “tooth fairy”…Thus beginning the whole misadventures and fun…

Review:

The rest of the movie is just funny and really enjoyable. You really don’t have to think about anything, just enjoy the flow. I actually stopped criticizing the whole movie. Besides, if you like Dwayne Johnson then you’ll be amazed to see how good he is in this movie. Yeah, I’m not gay, still he’s one of the better actor who’s good at playing in “family man” kind of movie. If you watched “The Game Plan” or “Race To Witch Mountain” already then I think you’ll share my view that it is impressive that he’s “good” with kids.

Which reminds me, well Dwayne Johnson is The Rock, a former professional wrestler who bashed people heads and butts when he was still active in the WWF/WWE. That image alone can be…well, seems frightening. Some boys might love him because of who he is, after all boys do have this tendency and openness towards violence. So you know what I’m trying to point, he’s a big brute. Yet, in this movie where he got put aside next to kids, and with him act in all those loving, caring, fatherly type of just made all those muscular brute image gone. Oh well, kids really are amazing “lovely items” – I guess the Anime Ouran High School Host Club is right and pretty logical after all.

Besides, there’s some scene in this movie is just unbelievable… he’s just amazing, being able to wear that hideous pink fairy dress which looks like some ballet dancer “tutu” (Whatever la).  Can you imagine that? A guy that big, with his brute image, wearing a dress?! Oh well, he did so too in The Game Plan, so I guess I shouldn’t have been surprised after all.

Yeah, it’s a nice movie.

Now I want to watch The Time Traveller’s Wife.