Return of the Tooth Fairy is set 20 years (NOT the 15 it states in the press materials/synopsis) after the event of the original film and Corey (Jake Watkins), a survivor the the tooth fairy massacre is now grown up and seemingly suffering from PTSD. Without it there’s a lack of context and depth to what occurs in this sequel – motivations seem too shallow here without that deeper knowledge of what took place in Tooth Fairy. Unfortunately, to truly grasp what’s happening here, you really do need to have sat through the first film – even with the brief flashbacks and snippets of exposition from the cast of characters here. Thankfully it does outshine it, it outshines that first film a LOT. Which means that Return of the Tooth Fairy doesn’t really have to achieve that much to easily outshine its predecessor. The original film seemingly sold more, and well enough, on it’s cover art alone rather than word of mouth, because that word of mouth surely wasn’t too great. Which is how we’ve come to this… a sequel to Tooth Fairy. They’ve also managed to strike up quite the deal with US distributors, finding success on the shelves of Walmart’s across the States. And it’s certainly not a shining light in the output of Champ Dog Films who have been making inroads into the UK genre scene for some time now often times overcoming shortcomings, be they budget, production values or performances, to create genre fare worthy of carry the tag of “Great British Horror”. After all the original film, which we reviewed back in March, was pretty bad – even for low-budget British filmmaking. And the laws of diminishing returns… Dear god if that’s true I don’t know how the hell I’m going to get through Return of the Tooth Fairy.
We doubt anyone over the age of 12 would find "Tooth Fairy" entertaining.Stars: Jake Watkins, Katie McKenna, Chelsea Greenwood, AJ Blackwell, Venetia Cook, Gus Fithen, Simon Manley, Niru Sukanthan | Written by Tom Jolliffe | Directed by Louisa WarrenĪh, the joy of sequels. The bottom line is, this film is beneath Dwayne Johnson, and Ashley Judd, and Julie Andrews, and even Stephan Merchant. Sure, Johnson flashes his million dollar smile in a tutu, but it's just not enough to sustain a movie, even one intended for kids and families.
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None of this happens! The characters are a joke, the dialogue is full of dental puns, the jokes are as flat as a week old soda pop, and we know where the entire thing is going to go before it even starts.
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We can handle a paint-by-numbers plot to an extent, so long as it has something else to fall back on, like if the characters are compelling, or the dialogue is intriguing, or if the movie is even the slightest bit funny, or if the story has some interesting twist.but here, there's nothing. There you go, you don't need to see the movie. A guy with bad attitude about life and bitter about his experiences has a life-altering event happen to him and then things start to turn around until there's a big mess up, followed by a really sappy and sad bit before the ultimate redemption and a happy ending.
It is a formulaic family redemption story that is completely by the book with no variation whatsoever. But, despite all his charm, he can't really do much to help elevate "Tooth Fairy" from being an idiotic mess. He has a great, killer smile, a goofy demeanor, and it's truly difficult not to like him. We have said it many times on this here blog: Dwayne Johnson is a charming guy. If you didn't think The Rock could stoop any lower in terms of his standards for picking movie roles, you were dead wrong. After he lets it slip to his girlfriend's daughter that there might not be a tooth fairy, Derek is summoned to Fairy Land, where he is sentenced to work a couple of weeks of backbreaking labor.as a tooth fairy.
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He has a habit of crushing the hopes and dreams of children who have aspirations of being professional athletes, rock stars, or even those who believe in the tooth fairy. Derek has a relatively cynical outlook on life due to the fact that an injury sent him packing from the NHL back down into the minor leagues. He got his nickname by knocking out the teeth of his opponents on the ice. Directed by Michael Lembeck, "Tooth Fairy" is a family fantasy comedy starring Dwayne Johnson as hockey player Derek 'The Tooth Fairy' Thompson.