


Her friends Rosetta (RV: Runaway Vacation's Kristin Chenoweth), Silvermist (Lucy Liu), Fawn (Ugly Betty's America Ferrera) and Iridessa (Raven-Symoné) are supportive, but Vidia (Pamela Adlon) is mean and keen to see her fail, and makes her mess up big time. She knows the only way to be able to go is to have a talent that would be useful in the human world, so she tries her hand at using new skills in the four season lands, with no success. the human world, but she is disheartened to find out that as a tinker she cannot go to the Main Land. Tinker Bell is fascinated hearing about the Main Land, i.e. The tinker fairies are responsible for fixing things for all the four seasons such as the contraptions that help make things and stuff, specifically for Spring, but this job isn't as important as the other fairies talents. Born into this world as a fairy herself is Tinker Bell (Independence Day's Mae Whitman), who before settling in has to find her skill and talent, like all the fairies have, and she is selected by her tool as a "tinker". Basically, the story is set in the world of fairies, who create the four seasons of the year and all components of them, such as the colour of leaves, snow, and much more. I had seen the original 1953 Disney animated film Peter Pan, and its sequel made nearly fifty years later, and I guess a film focusing on the famous pixie fairy sounded relatively interesting, so I watched it. In conclusion, a cute and fun little movie. Mae Whitman is very emotive and resourceful in the title role, but the standout for me was the immensely talented Anjelica Huston who is really quite excellent, also she is a presence that adults will thoroughly enjoy. The voice work is on paper of high-calibre, and in the film they do do sterling jobs. I have never hated Tinkerbell as much as others did in the Disney Peter Pan movie, which is not a Disney favourite but I like it very much for the music, but she is much more likable here and the fact that she isn't jealous or stubborn here will make her easy to relate for the younger crowd. The characters are really quite engaging. The story is very simple, but it is very sweet with a good message that doesn't feel forced or preachy. The score is somewhat Celtic-inspired, and it is really lovely and soothing and the tunes are memorable without being too twee. The film looks surprisingly great, initially I was expecting something along along the lines of all gloss no depth, but the look is clean and quite warm with gorgeous colours and all the fairies look convincing. While too short with some moments of insipid dialogue, Tinkerbell is a cute and entertaining movie that never tries to be anything more than it is. At first, I was not expecting much from Tinkerbell, but it was much better than I expected.
