SYNOPSIS:
Let your imagination take flight in an enchanting new motion picture starring the world's most beloved fairy!
This year's Autumn Revelry promises to be something special. A blue harvest moon will rise, allowing the fairies to use a precious moonstone to restore the Pixie Dust Tree — the source of all their magic. But when Tinker Bell accidentally puts all of Pixie Hollow in jeopardy, she must venture out across the sea on a secret quest to set things right. With some help from her friend Terence — and a charming, rascally firefly named Blaze — Tink braves an astonishing new world and discovers the greatest treasure of all.
TINKER BELL AND THE LOST TREASURE is a remarkable tale about the power of true friendship that your family will want to enjoy over and over again!
MOVIE REVIEW:
After a year of waiting, young girls must be rejoicing at the release of the second Tinker Bell made for video feature movie. Depending on how you see it, it’s either the perfect opportunity to reward your young girl for a year of hard work and diligence, or it may be a money milking ploy by the folks at Disney to make some decent profits during the festive season. Whatever way you see it, this respectable animated production has its loyal fans and shouldn’t have a problem receiving acclaim. You know you are in good hands when the House of Mouse is behind this.
The sequel to the 2008 movie has Tinker Bell making a perilous journey far North of Never Land to patch things up with her friend Terence (cue: cute male love interest disguised as a “friend”) and restore a Pixie Dust Tree. You see, our iconic fairy has caused some trouble (again), and her responsibility in this movie is to set things right by fixing a scepter. We already hear you saying: How original is that? Do take note, however, the target audience for this animated movie.
The delightful picture knows how to create lightheartedness and joy in the viewers. Using 3D animation (nothing less than that for kids nowadays), the magical world of fairies come alive with pixie dust and all things petite and pretty. The colours used are lavish and grand. This is complemented by a grand music score by Joel McNeely (Pooh’s Heffalump Movie) and art direction by Ed Li (The Princess and the Frog). If you left your cynicism behind, you’d smile in wonder as the 81 minute movie plays on screen.
At the end of the day, audiences young and old would be able to take home the message of what true friendship means. Sure, it’s something we always knew, but it’s always sweet to have a cutesy animation to remind us of how important this value is. Embodied with this lesson are family friendly action sequences and humourous dialogues to bring about some smiles on the kids’ faces. Oh, a mini storybook based on the movie is thrown into the mix to make reading fun too.
Names like Mae Whitman, Kristin Chenoweth, Jane Horrocks, Anjelica Huston, Jesse McCartney, and Raven-Symone return, making this a reunion project for the voice actors. And how’s this as an indication that the studios are confident of the movie: Originally slated only for a direct to DVD release in the United States, the producers decided to let the movie to have a one week theatrical run in Los Angeles in order to qualify for the 2010 Oscars. And guess what? It’s one of the 20 short listed movies to vie for the statuette. You go, Tinker Bell!
SPECIAL FEATURES :
To make it a decent collection, this Code 3 disc contains a few decent features. The “Magical Guide to Pixie Hollow” is an interesting five minute feature where Tinker Bell and Terence take you on a tour to the autumn area of Pixie Hollow. The “tour guides” do a decent job of bringing viewers around the magical world of fairies. There’s even a section where the fairies almost ran out of pixie dust – phew! The eight minute “Pixie Hollow Comes to Walt Disney World” brings us to different Disney theme parks to experience the captivating magic of the fairy world. See how the young girls actually dress up as fairies and have the best times of their lives. The four minute “Scenes You Never Saw” is a wonderful collection of faux NG takes, while the 16 minute “Deleted Scenes” will give you an insight to the eight clips which we removed from the final cut, with commentary from the filmmakers. Demi Lavato from Camp Rock performs in “The Gift of a Friend” Music Video, pleasing fans of the Disney Channel star. “Sneak Peeks” include trailers for other upcoming Disney home entertainment releases like Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue, as well as the theatrical release The Princess and The Frog.
AUDIO/VISUAL:
The visual transfer of the movie is pristine, while you can choose to watch the show in either Dolby Digital 5.1 English, Thai, Mandarin, Cantonese or Korean audio tracks.
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by John Li
Posted on 21 December 2009
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