Tooth Fairy (2010)

A bad deed on the part of a tough minor-league hockey player results in an unusual sentence: He must serve one week as a real-life tooth fairy.

Director:

Michael Lembeck

Writers:

Lowell Ganz (screenplay), Babaloo Mandel (screenplay)

Stars:

Dwayne Johnson, Ashley Judd, Julie Andrews

1 win & 4 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Dwayne Johnson	...	Derek
Ashley Judd	...	Carly
Stephen Merchant	...	Tracy
Ryan Sheckler	...	Mick Donnelly
Seth MacFarlane	...	Ziggy
Julie Andrews	...	Lily
Chase Ellison	...	Randy
Destiny Whitlock	...	Tess (as Destiny Grace Whitlock)
Brandon T. Jackson	...	Duke
Dan Joffre	...	Tooth Fairy #1
Ellie Harvie	...	Permit Woman
Barclay Hope	...	Coach
Michael Daingerfield	...	Announcer
Dale Wolfe	...	Color Commentator
Josh Emerson	...	Kyle

Storyline

Derek Thompson (Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson) is "The Tooth Fairy", a hard-charging minor league hockey player whose nickname comes from his habit of separating opposing players from their bicuspids. When Derek discourages a youngster's hopes, he's sentenced to one week's hard labor as a real tooth fairy, complete with the requisite tutu, wings, and magic wand. At first, Derek "can't handle the tooth" - bumbling and stumbling as he tries to furtively wing his way through strangers' homes - doing what tooth fairies do. But as Derek slowly adapts to his new position, he begins to rediscover his own forgotten dreams.

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Plot Keywords:

hare krishna | man wears eyeglasses | chevrolet | chevrolet corvette | ford motor company | 

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Taglines:

You can't handle the tooth.

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Genres:

Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Sport

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG for mild language, some rude humor and sports action

Did You Know?

Trivia

The opposition in the first and last minor league game played wore uniforms that match the color scheme of the 1990s Vancouver Canucks. Their logo says they are the "Woodsmen", but the face in the logo resembles "Johnny Canuck", an original inspiration for the name "Canucks".

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Goofs

Just before pushing Tracy, Derek's right wing disappears then reappears two shots later.

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Quotes

Derek Thompson: Does this tutu make my butt look big?
Lily: Yes.

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Crazy Credits

During the first set of ending credits, we see an epilogue of Derek playing hockey in a new team. Lily and Jerry (disguised) are in the audience. In order to take a better look at the game, Jerry shrinks himself and gets on the puck. He uses a cat horn to send the goalie away, and Derek's team wins.

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Connections

Referenced in Lesser Known Love: The Scorpion King (2017)

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Soundtracks

Take Off Yo Clothes
Written by David Hilker and John Costello
Performed by David Hilker
Courtesy of Marc Ferrari/MasterSource

User Reviews

I feel mean being mean about this movie but you gotta do what you gotta do

Trying to level any serious criticism at director Michael Lembeck's Tooth Fairy is like four hardened grizzled WW II vets hand-cranking one of those rotating anti-aircraft guns with four different barrels pointing at a bunch of screaming Japanese Zeros around so they can blast an orange kitten out of a tree. Except the kitten is kind of an asshole and it's 1956 so we're not actually at war with Japan anymore, so you know... maybe it's not the worst idea in the world.

Dwayne "the Rock" Johnson plays Derek "the Tooth Fairy" Johnson, the beloved bruising left-winger on the local minor hockey team. He started as a skill player, a dangler, an offensive prospect that had his dreams dashed by a shoulder injury, and he's now happy to play a couple of minutes a night, hammer the opponents' star player, and spend the rest of the game in his custom recliner in the penalty box. He's a cartoon pragmatist, dispensing hard truths about the impossibility of dreams coming true to young hockey players wanting to be just like him.

As a result, he is summoned to Fairyland, and sentenced by head fairy Lily (Julie Andrews) to two weeks' duty as a Tooth Fairy, a real-deal winged creeper with a bat-belt full of spy gadgets and a lanky, awkward case worker with fairy aspirations of his own (Stephen Merchant, co-creator with Ricky Gervais of The Office). Lessons are learned, a whole bunch of obvious groaner gags are hatched, and everything, eventually, from a guitarist kid's fear of failure to a single mom's love to a future hockey star's cockiness and on and on is resolved in a Really Pleasant Way.

It's a kids movie, pure and simple, endlessly saccharine and full of pratfalls, Healthy Moral Lessons and magic fairy dust. It's also incredibly dull, and a massive waste of what's actually a great cast - Merchant is consistently funny and Billy Crystal is in vintage form as Fairyland's gadgetmaster Q equivalent, and Johnson is as charming as ever. Six year old kids will probably laugh their six year old heads off, but the dullness of the script, the predictability of the gags and the moral convenience and simplicity of the story is going to bore anybody not actually invested in the "ok wait is there actually a tooth fairy or not, dad" debate.

You want this film to be better, just because it could have been. It's stuffed full of legitimate talent and it remarkably doesn't feel like a cynical cash-in, it just feels diluted. It is going to accomplish its ostensibly stated goal, entertaining children, but outside of a few laughs here and there it's not going to do much for anyone else. 4/10

Details

Official Sites:

20th Century Fox [France]

Country:

USA Canada

Language:

English

Release Date:

22 January 2010 (USA)

Also Known As:

Tooth Fairy

Filming Locations:

California, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$48,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$14,010,409, 24 January 2010

Gross USA:

$60,022,256

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$112,462,508

Company Credits

Production Co:

Twentieth Century Fox, Walden Media, Mayhem Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

101 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby DTS

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1