Tooth Fairy (2010)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2010
	Director: Michael Lembeck (many comedy TV-series episodes including Friends)
	Actors: Dwayne Johnson (San Andreas, Welcome to the Jungle), Ashley Judd (Heat, Olympus has Fallen), Julie Andrews (The Sound of Music)
	Country: USA, CDN
	Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
	Conditions of visioning: 09.05.2017, VOD, 14" computer screen.
Synopsis: Derek a.k.a. "The Tooth Fairy" on the ice rink is a hockey player that sometimes spoils other people's dreams. He will thus be summoned to a 2-week Tooth Fairy duty.
Review: Every action hero had to go at some point through the challenge of starring in a comedy, which humor works on the contradiction between a big serious tough guy and very light situations usually involving kids: Kindergarten Cop for Schwarzenegger (I think he started the trend on purpose as I read in his autobiography), The Pacifier for Vin Diesel, Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot (no kids involved) for Stallone, Death Becomes Her or The Whole Nine Yards for Willis (not goofy comedies but his action character is usually already funny). For "The Rock" Johnson it was the first attempt at comedy but not the last, although still the goofiest to date. It is funny that I have recently been watching or thinking about several movies involving the Tooth Fairy mythology: Hellboy II, Rise of the Guardians, Don't be afraid of the Dark. This version is quite children-oriented, although it includes jokes that maybe adults will enjoy more, especially wordplay around "tooth" and "wings" (for example the Fairy Tool Evolution written by Charles Darwing..., "you can't handle the tooth", "nothing but the tooth" ...). I found the movie too dumb for my taste at the beginning, with the mandatory training period for Johnson's character as Tooth Fairy. Fortunately at around half-movie comes the predictable character change, then the predictable last conflict followed by redemption and the predictable happy ending, all less goofy and more feeling-oriented, which if not original were at least watchable. Note the nice small roles for Julie Andrews (The Sound of Music) and Seth MacFarlane (A Million Ways to Die in the West, Ted, Ted 2, Family Guy TV-series)
Rating: 4 /10