Real Teen Award
-Worst Character/Actor in 2010: Dwyane Johnson
-Worst Character/Actor in 2010: Dwyane Johnson
The Gist
Derek Thompson is a minors hockey player. His nickname is ‘the tooth fairy’, because whenever he glides onto the ice, someone is going to get hit. And probably lose a tooth. When he almost tells his girlfriend’s daughter, Tess, that the tooth fairy isn’t real, it’s the final straw. He’s summoned into tooth fairy headquarters, and is commissioned as a tooth fairy for two weeks. Suddenly his life is turned upside down, and he has to handle his job, his girlfriend, his girlfriend’s kids, and the tooth fairy business. Oh yea, and if he tells anyone he’s a tooth fairy, he’s commissioned for life.
What We Think
What We Think
Reviewed by Living Destiny
Run Time: 102 Minutes
Rating: PG
I watched this with Dream Catcher and North Star after coming back from the movies one day. We thought it would be lame, but tolerable. It was just barely tolerable, and definitely lame, so I guess we were right.
I hated Dwayne Johnson’s character with a burning passion. He was a dream killer. He was supposedly ‘telling it like it is’, but what 12 year old kid wants to hear that he’s an ok guitar player, but will never make it in life with his guitar, and will never ever be a rock star? I’ll answer my own question: NO 12 YEAR OLD KID WANTS TO HEAR THAT! Derek is just a bitter guy who’s major league dreams were crushed, so now he needs to take it out on other people. Hated him. I also really didn’t like Tracy, the little fairy helper dude. He was so very creepy, I don’t even know how to describe his creepiness. Now that I think about, the only characters I really liked were Randy and Tess (Derek’s girlfriend’s kids). Tess was a cute little girl, and Randy was a smart and kind of sly kid. That’s literally it.
The plot was pretty bad. It probably had some potential at some point, but it got killed during the course of this movie. It was really lame and not too funny. There were a couple things that I laughed at, but it might have been the mixture of lateness and caffeine, and not the actual content. I found it weird that Ryan Sheckler was in it. Isn’t he a skate punk? Why is he acting? But whatever, he can do what he wants, and if he wants to be in stupid movies, that’s his choice.
What disappointed me the most wasn’t the main character, or the plot, or even weird Ryan Sheckler. It was the fact that Julie Andrews was in this movie. I mean, she’s an amazing actress, and I love her. But why in the world is she in this movie? It’s terrible, so how did she get sucked into it? If this is what she’s acting in right now, people have either lost respect for her (which is sad), or stopped writing movies of any entertainment value and depth (which is also sad). Seeing her in this movie left me rather dazed and confused. I didn’t get it watching the movie, and looking back, I still don’t get it.
This movie was horrible. That’s all there is to it. Maybe if you need to entertain a couple of 7 year olds, it might suffice. Or maybe not.
Real Teen Rating~ D+: It passes time…..barely…..
Reviewed by Dream Catcher
Reviewed by Dream Catcher
Seriously, I don’t know what I should say about this movie. The three of us had come back from a movie at the theaters – now I even forget what the movie was – and being weird, as usual, we decided to rent a movie on demand. Who’s idea was it to watch this oh-so-wonderful movie? I guess you can say it was all of our faults for being subjected to this torture. We decided we needed something bad to review. So we picked a movie we all knew for a fact would not be good, enjoyable, or at all entertaining. It was worse that I thought it was going to be. Okay, so there was hardly a plot, the characters were…not good (there’s really no other way to describe it), the acting was mediocre, and the jokes weren’t funny. Now to elaborate. Plot: there was none. So a mean dream-crusher is forced to be a tooth fairy. Um…the word that comes to mind here is awkward. Especially when he’s transformed into the only ballerina-outfitted, hockey-gear-wearing, smirking tooth fairy in existence. It’s just not right, and certainly not natural. Perhaps the intention was to be funny. It wasn’t funny, it was creepy. Dwayne Johnson in pink tights is creepy. Overall; no plot. Characters: my favorite thing to bash in a bad movie. I couldn’t relate to any of the characters or any of their emotions, and I didn’t particularly want to. I always know it’s a good movie when I feel empathy for a character. Here I felt no empathy. First of all, the main character was a creep, ego-maniac, and thought way too much of himself to be at all likeable. Rule number one in most movies: at some point, the audience must like the main character. No. This was an epic fail. Also, this guy’s girlfriend must have been pretty desperate. No matter what he did she didn’t care. She was momentarily mad and then he brought her flowers and she instantly forgave him. This gave me the impression that the woman was spineless. This irks me. She should have got up the courage to leave him, or break up with him. The fact that she didn’t was kind of a let down. Finally, Tracy. I know you must be expecting a girl. No, this was a full-grown yet awkward man who’s life-long dream was to have wings so he could become a tooth fairy. Not only was that statement beyond weird, but the character was too awkward. I think the point was for him to be the level of awkward that can be funny. He never once made me laugh. So I guess that was another epic fail. In a movie, I think it’s a little important for the people watching to like what they see. So when I never did, it made the movie seem sloppy and the characters seem utterly (and disgustingly) one-sided. Acting: EHHH. That it all. Not good. Not bad. Somewhere in between. Which is never good. Why would I remember ehhh acting? I wouldn’t. So that means I won’t remember this movie (I hope I won’t, at least) which, in turn, means that this was a very unsuccessful movie. Not good. To say one good thing about the movie, so you don’t think I’m a complete jerk, I must admit, a rare joke made me laugh, not hysterically, but still. Laugh. That’s a start. It was also pretty easy to make fun of, so if you watch it with a group, then you’ll help each other through it with your own added jokes. I think I’ve elaborated enough on my main points. Basically, you can forget everything you just read if you remember this one thing: DO NOT WATCH.
Real Teen Rating~ D- : I wouldn’t bother at all.
Reviewed by Shore Whisperer
Reviewed by Shore Whisperer
I was dragged out of my house to go see this movie. I wasn’t all that excited. I’ve never really enjoyed Dwayne “the rock” Johnson. I think the last time I saw him on tv was when I was watching the Game Plan. This movie was beyond boring to me. This movie is something that I would put on to make myself fall asleep at night. Even if I changed my point of view… let’s say that I was going to see the movie, and I actually wanted to go to see it… it still wasn’t good. The best part of it I would say was Julie Andrews. She was good. Dwayne Johnson has a typecast. In every movie I’ve seen him in he is either the big sports dude that in time learns the meaing of the word family, or… he is this stuck up “super hot” guy with a huge ego. Let’s not mention the fact that he is also involved with Disney, so most of the time he just isn’t growing in his acting career. I think that if he tried he could be a decent actor. This movie did him no justice whatsoever. The whole premice of the movie reminded me a little of the Game Plan but now it just has a mystical feel. There is the kid who doesn’t want to cooperate or like him at all. There’s the big shot who doesn’t want to have kids and hates them. Then there is an epiphany that -”OH MY GOSH! I love this kid”- and by that time he has to do something to help the kid and blah blah blah… It’s really quite annoying. Also I didn’t like the portrayal of the fairies. They were a little too cliche for me. The outfits especially when Dwayne was wearing them left me scarred for life. Men should NEVER EVER wear TUTU’S. It is the most un-masculine thing you could ever do. I really think it depletes the amount of testosterone. But seriously what was the point of this movie? I think my parents deemed it “cute”. I deemed it “a waste of my time.”. I have seen the plot before, the message is still engrained in my memory. They were trying for some tear jerking scene but it wasn’t there. The ending was just BAD! It ruined the whole movie it was more awkward than the rest of the movie. The whole movie screamed awkwardness too. I was squirming in my seat when his voice was high and when he was small. It was just NOT a good movie. I think that I have said that though. I think you get my point. If you really want to watch this movie fast forward to the parts with Julie Andrews and then it won’t be such a waste of time.
Real Teen Rating~D- : I wouldn’t bother at all.
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