Tooth Fairy, The
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Cast & Credits: Release Date: January 22, 2010
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Director: Michael Lembeck
Screenwriter: Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel, Joshua Sternin, Jeffrey Ventimilia, Randi Mayem Singer
Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Ashley Judd, Julie Andrews, Stephen Merchant, Ryan Sheckler
Genre: Comedy, Family
MPAA Rating: PG (for mild language, some rude humor and sports action)
Official Website: ToothFairy-movie.com - Categories: Comedy | Family | All
Story
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.
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.
Conclusion
As much as you might want to give this moronic quote-unquote comedy a pass or write it off as a movie only for kids, "Tooth Fairy" is clearly 20th Century Fox's attempt at replicating the success of Disney family comedies like the "Santa Clause" movies or "The Game Plan" by using the same formula of a successful but imperfect man who desperately needs to be taught a lesson by being put into a situation of responsibility. At least that might have been an underlying intention for dressing Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson in a tutu and wings and hoping for the best.
