Tinker Bell came into my childhood when I first watched Disney’s Peter Pan. I wasn’t a fan of her because she acted like a little brat. In the cartoon, she has a thing for Peter and would get mad when Peter and Wendy were together. I was later introduced to Tink again in the live action movie “Hook.” In this version, she has the same feisty personality and was played by Julia Roberts. Her love for Peter was more apparent when she uses her magic to become as big as Peter. That’s a big Tink! Click on the link for the full review.
Throughout my life, I would see Tinker Bell casting magic on various Disney products. The latest I’ve seen Tink in the media was in Disney DVDs. They used her to show that the Disney DVDs are the next step in digital entertainment evolution.
Recently, I went to Disneyland and saw Tinker Bell again. The fireworks at night were the best use of Tinker Bell I’ve seen. Tink would fly above the castle and bursts of fireworks would trail behind her with epic music playing in the background.
Finally, Tinker Bell gets her own movie. Disney’s Tinker Bell is a 3d animated movie about how she came to be. Yeah, Disney’s target audiences are definitely little girls. That is probably why this movie was released directly to DVD. They have been advertising this everywhere in my area though. I’d like to see Disney promote this movie during Tinker Bell’s flight over the castle at Disneyland.
The beginning of the movie takes us from London to Pixie Hollow, home of the fairies. There’s a ceremony happening there and with a poof of magic, Tinker Bell is born. So now we get to see how fairies are made…kind of disappointing. I was expecting some kind of pregnant fairies. After a fairy is born, they have to walk around different objects on a table to decide what their talents is going to be. Tinker Bell passes by a hammer and it lights up. The hammer is the symbol for the Tinkers. And that’s where she got her name, Tinker Bell. She is then greeted by Queen Clarion (Angelica Huston), queen of the fairies, who introduces her to all the fairies.
Tinker Bell is a completely different fairy the last time we saw her from the Disney movie. She is going back to her roots like in the original play and book. In the original, her job was making pots and pans, thus the meaning of tinker. Another difference is that she can now talk. She has a bubbly cute attitude towards life. She’s always curious and helpful.
Tinker Bell is joined by two other Tinkers, Clank and Bobble. Clank and Bobble are the comic reliefs and are there to help Tink get situated into her new life. She learns about the roles fairies play in shaping the seasons and nature in the “mainland.”
It’s when she meets the other four fairies with “cooler” gifts that she decides she wants to do something more important other than making pots and pans. The other four fairies get to use their abilities in the mainland and they become friends with Tink. Iridessa (Raven-Symone) is the black fairy with the ability to manipulate light, Fawn (America Ferrera) has the ability to train animals, Silvermist (Lucy Liu) is the Asian fairy with water as her specialty, and Rosetta (Kristin Chenoweth) is gifted with plants and flowers.
With the help from the four, Tinker Bell decides she wants them to train her, so that she too can go to the mainland. Each attempt by the four has turned into failures. With Silvermist, she tries to decorate a spider web with water drops. She fails each time because the water would pop before she was able to get to the webs. She tries this again and again with no luck. For Iridessa, she helps Tink with handling light to put on fireflies. Tink mishandles the light and accidentally gets the light stuck to her butt and now all the fireflies are chasing after her. And that’s when “booty call” was invented my children.
Later on, she would soon realize that her talent as a Tinker would help the fairies stay on schedule for the spring season, thus saving the world!
Clearly, this movie wasn’t aimed at me or you, unless you’re a preteen girl reading this. I showed this to my little brother and sister and they thought the movie was ok. Based on that, this movie does its job of introducing the fairy world to little girls. They get to find out how Tinker Bell was created and how she became friends with the other fairies. The movie has a good message. Be proud of who you are and know that even the smallest person can change the course of the future. Yeah, that line was from Lord of the Rings, but it’s still relevant. For those fans of the Peter Pan cartoon, don’t worry, there’s an homage near the end.
Grade: B-
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