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Tooth Fairy |  | Director: Michael Lembeck
Actors: Dwayne Johnson, Ashley Judd, Stephen Merchant, Ryan Sheckler, Seth MacFarlane
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Category: Movie
Buy New: $3.99
as of 9/10/2010 15:01 CDT details
Seller: Amazon Video On Demand
Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 130
Genre: Comedy
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: Video On Demand
Running Time: 102 Minutes
ASIN: B003LPR56I
Theatrical Release Date: January 22, 2010
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Synopsis:
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 wings, magic wand and frilly tutu. 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. |
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 Not a bad little family movie. August 10, 2010
Rick L. Parrish
Cookie cutter plot about tooth fairies and childhood faith in such. Even Julie Andrews seems to be phoning it in. But The Rock goes all out and so does his beanstalk British case worker/mentor/wish-he-was-one. Has some cute moments and The Rock's smile lights up the screen like I haven't seen since Maurice Chevalier (albeit without the continental slyness). For the junior set it's a fun little family movie...for the adults it can't quite make you forget that missing tooth despite Billy Crystal showing up in an energetic mini-supporting role and again in the end credits. I just had the feeling when it was all over that something was missing besides the tooth!!! But the kids loved it and The Rock in a tutu is their new hero...and I guess when all is said and done...that's what it's all about. (for the tweeners there's an interesting turn by Ryan Sheckler (skateboarder) as the hotshot up and coming hockey player)
 I believe... July 2, 2010
D. J. Nardi (Washington, DC)
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
Dwayne 'the Rock' Johnson dressed up as a fairy has got to be one of the more ridiculous images in recent movie history. That's just one of the things that makes Tooth Fairy hilarious. The movie is filled with witty (and sometimes corny) humor. The plot and character development also feel pretty natural. Indeed, even though the plot device of a boyfriend trying to win the love of his girlfriend's children has been used far too many times, it didn't feel stale.
Meanwhile, the toothfairy "kingdom" or whatever had a great combination of magic and sass. It's set up kind of like MI6 from James Bond - Julie Andrews even acts as the head tooth fairy. At the end of the day, it's kind of like The Santa Clause - but with wings and an attitude.
Excellent Family Movie March 11, 2010
realnaynay (boerne, tx United States)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
We watched this as a family group, from ages 2 to age 52. It was lively enough to keep the 2 year old entertained, and enchanting enough to keep this 52 year old (but young at heart) grandmother smiling.
I think alot of people over think movies, there is no deep meaning in most, just a chance to let go and be free to imagine and believe.
I don't still believe in the tooth fairy, but I think the main point in this movie, that children should be allowed to have dreams is a very good one.
I think the Rock did a great job of playing a disillusioned hockey player, that learns the hard way that children and adults need dreams to help them believe in themselves.
Madison's Review February 5, 2010
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
/ Warning - may spoil the ending /
I am eleven years old, and I love to watch movies and the latest one I seen was The Tooth Fairy.
The reason why I like The Tooth Fairy because there is a lot of humor in this movie and the man has to be the tooth fairy for hurting his girlfriend's daughter's dreams, and he has to serve as a tooth fairy for that one reason. He has to learn the ways of being a tooth fairy, and to survive you got to handle the tooth.
It was really good, and I do not know why the critics gave it a C+ because I would have given it an A+. You should see it at least once or twice at the movie theater.
I love the special effects they did in the movie like how they made him look like he was tiny, and when he was on the kids bed about to put the tooth under his pillow it looked so real, and I do not know how they do it but that is how they make it look so real because if you knew how they made everything and that would spoil how they make it.
The movie is about a guy who has to be a tooth fairy and he can not let anyone know and he has to learn the ways and all the gadgets to use like the shrinking paste, invisibility spray, and amnesia dust, and etc. At the end when his time is up being the tooth fairy they have to make him forget he was the tooth fairy and while he was at his girlfriend's son's talent show during the song he asked her to marry him. "Awwwwwwwww."
At the end he learns true character and true heart.
A lesson in transforming cold-heartedness into sensible mindedness. January 26, 2010
Mohamed F. El-Hewie (Hackensack, NJ USA)
5 out of 11 found this review helpful
The previews of the movie were quite discouraging. Dwayne Johnson's conversion from wrestling in the WWF to cinema never appealed to me. Since the era of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Steve Reeves, muscle mass alone does not confer an edge on an actor lacking attractive facial appearance, strong personality, and believable expression. Johnson lacked those all. However, the theme of the movie fitted his lack of appeal and meager talent as an actor. I even doubt that Johnson was a good match to a Hockey player. He is tall and disproportionate for a sport that requires short stature and strong legs. In real life, Johnson would have been long gone had he played Hockey.
By the moment, the movie started gaining appeal as its main theme became clear. You could easily relate many people to the lack of appreciation of the essential role of nurturing fantasy in the development of children. The cold-hearted Hockey player led a dry life, where training and competition required objective and realistic planning. Fantasy has no place in the routine life of an athlete. Transforming his personal experience as a professional athlete into fitting in a family of two kids and single mom presented a challenge to his rigid and objective mind set.
He was nicknamed the "tooth fairy" after busting the teeth of another Hockey player. In the family setup, the professional player could not relate to the children fantasy of hiding the tooth under the pillow, expecting the tooth fairy to sneak under the vial of the night to replace the tooth with money. The nicknamed "tooth fairy", instead, stole the money from under the pillow of the kid of his girlfriend unaware of its symbolic relevance to a child.
In order to break the cold heartedness of a materialistic, rigid adult, he was enlisted, in his dreams, into the boot camp of the school of tooth fairies. His dreams fused with his consciousness. He must work his way to develop sensibility and understanding of the role of fantasy in raising kids. The tooth fairy school was run by a seasoned Lady Chief tooth fairy. The cold-hearted Hockey player must learn how to fly with wings, vanish by swallowing paste, shrink by spraying magic powder, and turn people amnesic by aerosol sprayer.
Every act of arrogant rigidity is penalized by further tooth-picking tasks that require flying, shrinking, vanishing, and altering the minds of others.
The movie is a rich lesson in the psychoanalysis of learning how to appreciate the opposite and different views of different generations of human development.
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