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A Fairly Odd Movie: Grow Up, Timmy Turner!

Timmy turns 23 and his godparents are fighting to keep him, while Crocker is still up to his nefarious schemes.

Drake Bell, Susanne Blakeslee, Tara Strong, Daran Norris, and Daniella Monet in A Fairly Odd Movie: Grow Up, Timmy Turner! (2011)

Not as bad as you might think. Daniella Monet made it worth watching.

Perhaps this cartoon doesn't lend itself well to live action

***RELUCTANT SPOILERS*** Just before the third &quot;Jimmy-Timmy Power Hour&quot; crossover TV-movie, Butch Hartman claimed he was running out of ideas for The Fairly Odd-Parents. Yet it seems that just when he thinks he can get out, either Nickelodeon keeps pulling him back in, or another idea for the cartoon that made him famous forms in his head. Either way, like a lot of other people, I expected this to be Nickelodeon&#39;s &quot;Howard the Duck.&quot; Jennifer Stone already appeared in two bad remakes in disguise. We can only hope Daniella Monet doesn&#39;t start making the same mistakes. Timmy Turner is now 23 years old, and refuses to grow up and make a life for himself in order to keep his fairy godparents, Cosmo, Wanda, and Poof, all of which are in CGI, and voiced by the same cast who provided their voices since the days when it was a hand-drawn &quot;Oh Yeah, Cartoons&quot; segment. His parents are anxious for him to move out, and his teacher Denzel Crocker is still convinced that the reason he&#39;s still in elementary school is because of his fairy godparents. Chester and AJ often appear on the sidelines watching Timmy&#39;s antics, and bragging about the benefits of being more than just a legal adult. Vicky now runs a day care center and treats kids with the same lack of TLC she did when she was a teenager. Because Timmy never fell in love, except with the noticeably absent Trixie Tang, he has never been in danger of losing the two and later three who have been saving his butt from the misery of childhood and adolescence since he was ten years old. But suddenly while watching a ceremony for the groundbreaking of a combined hotel/oil well(yeah, that&#39;d bring in customers), along comes this gorgeous brunette who strolls over and tries to stop Hugh J. Magnate(Steven Weber), the man who wants to build it. That brunette turns out to be none other than Tootie, the geeky sister of Vicky who had a mad crush on him when they were little kids. The ugly ducking evolving into a beautiful swan routine has been done to death, but Daniella is such a turn-on as grown up Tootie, you won&#39;t care. Besides that she wasn&#39;t even ugly playing as the Tootie of Timmy&#39;s memories. Needless to say, he makes wishes to help Tootie to stop them, and now his fairy godparents are scared because he&#39;s falling in love with her, and spend much of the movie trying to stop him. He knows this too, but he&#39;s not as concerned as they are, until they&#39;re about to kiss. Timmy&#39;s 23 and he&#39;s afraid to kiss this beauty? Hell, if I were 23, I&#39;d not only kiss her, I&#39;d wrap my arms around her, run my fingers through her hair, and do things to her that even Cartoon Network&#39;s Adult Swim time-slot wouldn&#39;t show! Meanwhile Mr. Crocker sets up a meeting with the tycoon who wanted to build that hotel, and reveals the existence of Timmy&#39;s Fairy Godparents. Anyone else would blow him off as the nut case he truly is and send him to the booby hatch, but the tycoon decides to team up with him to stop Timmy and Tootie. I&#39;m going to say this, and I don&#39;t care if I get tons of hate mail in my IMDb box; David Lewis made an excellent Denzel Crocker. Daran Norris, who voiced both Cosmo and Timmy&#39;s dad was also an excellent choice to play as his dad in live-action. Despite the fact that it has a scene that puts Tootie in peril, it&#39;s not as Wagnerian as made-for-TV movie versions of FOP, most notably &quot;Abra-Catastrophe&quot; and &quot;Channel Chasers.&quot; Whatever else you may say about it, you have to give them some credit for staying true to the spirit of the cartoon, right down to the prop department. Live-action Dimmsdale is as loaded with 1950&#39;s and 1960&#39;s era cars and trucks as the original cartoon was, although it would&#39;ve been nice to see a live-action version of Mr. &amp; Mrs. Turner&#39;s mid-1960&#39;s Ford Country Squire station wagon. There&#39;s also a scene where Chester and AJ are given some supposedly hot girlfriends(twins, in fact), and turn to the camera and ask if we&#39;re jealous. Not of you two. Of Timmy? Definitely!

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So why exactly was this live action? Really for gimmicks sake, but I imagine it was a successful gimmick, and one that peaked many viewers&#39; interests (including myself). So basically what we have is a live action version of a cartoon show that doesn&#39;t particularly lend itself to live action, with a plot that zips along at about an hour, with no real time to build up anything that feels cinematic. Basically, this feels like a longer, live action episode of the show (though it would have to take place long after the series), that probably would have been better as a cartoon. Timmy Turner (Drake Bell) is 23, still in the fifth grade, and still living with his parents so he can keep his fairy godparents Cosmo and Wanda. At a public event to destroy the town park, he sees Tootie (Daniella Monet) who has now become an activist, and he begins to fall in love with her. Cosmo and Wanda can&#39;t let this happen, because he will lose them, while meanwhile an oil tycoon Hugh Magnate (Steven Weber) and Timmy&#39;s crazy teacher Mr. Crocker (David Lewis) hatch a scheme to steal Timmy&#39;s godparents. The performances are fine, if not a little corny. Drake Bell is really hamming it up with his overly enthusiastic acting job, but for a 23 year old man-child this seems quite tame compared to Pee-Wee Herman or Madtv&#39;s Stewart, so it could be way goofier. Daniella Monet plays Tootie and she gives an okay performance, about what you&#39;d expect from Nickelodeon. Mark Gibbon plays Jorgen von Strangle quite well, and sounds a lot like him from the animated show. Daran Norris who plays Cosmo and Mr. Turner on the cartoon show, also played both of them here, and was actually quite funny and sort of deranged looking as Timmy&#39;s dad. Everybody is over the top, as this is a live action cartoon, and there&#39;s no drama at all, but whatever, it&#39;s not really a movie, just a goofy extended finale (?) to the series. Nothing really stands out as being particularly good here. The plot plods along very quickly, assuming we all know the characters already, as most watching should. The ending is forced, and corny, and kind of bizarre in how fast Timmy and Tootie&#39;s relationship has progressed so quickly, but whatever, it had a nice message. Jason Alexander and Cheryl Hines show up for some reason as Cosmo and Wanda when they take the form of human beings to destroy Timmy&#39;s date, and there&#39;s no reason whatsoever for them, except for some celebrity cameos, and again, they&#39;re fine in the roles, but pointless. Everything here moves along as quick as it possibly can, and while it&#39;s pretty entertaining is a very stupid way, it&#39;s also not really cinematic, and many of the plot points are retread from other episodes, but it&#39;s basically what one would expect when they heard about a made for TV live action Fairly Oddparents movie. Not a lot of laughs, many of the jokes fall flat because these cartoony gags don&#39;t really work too well in live action, especially live action filmed as safe and sit-commy as this, but at the same time it&#39;s not boring, the colors are bright, and the story moves along thanks to silly (not a bad thing) performances and a short running time. And if you love the ending to Back to the Future parts 1 or 3, and have longed for the Fairly Oddparents to homage it, then your wait is over. Expect goofy entertaining mediocrity, and you will probably enjoy this to some degree. My rating: ** out of ****. 60 mins. Not rated, contains some &quot;poopy&quot; humor.

I was ecstatic to find out Nickelodeon created a live-action Fairly Odd Parents movie. And was pleased by the ending because it didn&#39;t leave any strings unattached. But it was missing a lot, too. I can&#39;t be the only one who was expecting Crimson Chin and even hoping for Chip Skylark to make an appearance (especially considering the town goat was in it!). Also I think Doug Dimadome would have been perfect for the antagonist. I grew up watching this show, but I haven&#39;t watched it in years until this movie just to know how it ends. Ending was good, but I&#39;d like to see more characters.

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A Fairly Odd Movie: Grow Up, Timmy Turner!

Not as bad as you might think. Daniella Monet made it worth watching.

Perhaps this cartoon doesn't lend itself well to live action

Good Closure, but Missing Pieces

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