Review – Tinker Bell

At least she finally gets to speak. According to the notes on IMDb, this was a real nightmare in production, plagued by so many false starts and other woes that Disney considered abandoning its straight-to-DVD division altogether. And that’s odd considering that there isn’t all that much to this. It’s a cut or two above the whole Barbie Fairytopia thing, but still nowhere near what one would expect from the studio that pioneered feature-length animation. I also had trouble watching it because of my constant dread of the moralistic teaching points inevitably incorporated into children’s entertainment. As usual, the message was mixed. I liked the acknowledgement that girls can grow up to be designers and engineers, but the notion of predestined “right things” for people to do was harder to swallow. Mildly amusing