This is essentially not a typical Disney Princess type of movie where a young princess meets a her prince and gets married, then lives happily ever after – none of that sort, which makes it FANTASTIC!
Following up from the last instalment of the Disney Fairies Tinkerbell series – Tinkerbell and The Lost Treasure, is Tinkerbell and the Great Fairy Rescue. This is where we learn how (in a way) Tinkerbell got her name – she tinkers, is very observant, curious, and innovative! It’s Summer, and Tinkerbell gets to go to Fairy Camp. A camp where all the fairies go to do their normal duties – painting butterflies’ wings (yes, how do you think they got their wings so beautiful!), painting the stripes of the buzzy bumblebees and other more amazing things that we adults would normally just brush past as being part of nature. Now, what we humans do not know is, fairies are not supposed to be seen by us humans – and so Tinkerbell being the curious fairy that she is, ventures out into the meadows to meet the humans who have come to their Summer house – marking the first ever time that a fairy and human meets!
Cue Lizzy and her dad. Lizzy, a young and impressionable girl, full of love for nature, the fairies and anything magical and her dad – the ever scientific, all too straight laced scientist, who is always too busy for anything but discovering new species of butterflies. In the hopes of meeting fairies, Lizzy sets up the house she made some where in the meadows and that’s – in short how Tinkerbell and Lizzy meets. Tinkerbell’s fairy friend rushes back to camp to inform the rest of the capture and the fairies set out to save Tinkerbell. Meanwhile, Tinkerbell, after much persuasion, realises Lizzy is indeed a friend. They get to know each other, and even made a scrapbook detailing what fairies do, their size and other information, we mere mortals just would not have thought of! Lizzy though, still couldn’t convince her dad to read her book, he was just far too busy with his work and of course stopping the roof leaks around the house. This didn’t mean he wasn’t remorseful at the fact that he couldn’t spend enough time with Lizzy, his sighing words – “there just isn’t enough time in a day”, sort of hit home with many of us parents, I suppose, who have too many things to do and too little time.
Tinkerbell and The Great Fairy Rescue is filled with exciting adventures. From the fairies and their innovative thinking on how to get to the house in the rain, their quick thinking on how to get themselves out of each rut or trouble, to Lizzy and her adventures with flying (yes imagine seeing your child flying around in their bedroom). Will her dad finally discover Tinkerbell? Will he finally believe that fairies were real? I won’t spoil it for you. But it is quite a whirlwind adventure indeed.
The movie is simple enough for kids to understand, even my 4 year old were laughing at the bits I found funny. No scary bits, except, according to my son when the cat was trying to catch the fairies – even that was rather harmless. A great movie overall for the family to watch, no dull boring bits that would make us adults feel like we’re trapped in some torturous time warp. It’s a movie about believing in the make belief, about listening to your inner child and about taking time out to enjoy what’s out there. I highly recommend this movie, especially for those of you who have forgotten what being a child is like.
Due to be released in the cinemas: August 2010
Also available on Disney DVD on the 15th September 2010.