Tinker Bell (DVD)

...film from Walt Disney where Tinker Bell is the main character. We get to learn all about Tinker Bell how she became a ‘Tinker’ (one of the types of fairy).

The animation in this is very ‘new’ Disney. It is all 3D and computer animated and looks very much like the animation did in ‘The Incredibles’, not like the old Disney films. I have to say I don’t think I like the animation in the new look films as much as the animation in the old ...
...introduced to the new fairy, Tinker Bell. The fairies then place different objects around her and the queen of the fairies tells her that these will help her find her talent (the fairies are divided into groups depending on their talents) Tinker gets an axe, which means that she is a Tinker fairy. The Tinkers create things for the other fairies to use, they are basically worker fairies.

Tinker Bell has her own little house to live in ... more

When I was babysitting last night, I got roped into watching ‘Tinker Bell’, a film from Walt Disney where Tinker Bell is the main character. We get to learn all about Tinker Bell how she became a ‘Tinker’ (one of the types of fairy).

The animation in this is very ‘new’ Disney. It is all 3D and computer animated and looks very much like the animation did in ‘The Incredibles’, not like the old Disney films. I have to say I don’t think I like the animation in the new look films as much as the animation in the old films.

The film starts off with the narrator explaining the jobs of fairies, which is to craft out nature, adding all the little details to things like snow flakes, giving light and colour to flowers, and helping all creatures. The narrator when goes on to say that when a baby first laughs a fairies life takes flight, we then see dandelion leaves flying through the air and landing on a tree in ‘Pixie Hollow’, where all the fairies live! One of the fairies pours some dust on the dandelion leaf and it turns into a fairy. This is where we first get introduced to the new fairy, Tinker Bell. The fairies then place different objects around her and the queen of the fairies tells her that these will help her find her talent (the fairies are divided into groups depending on their talents) Tinker gets an axe, which means that she is a Tinker fairy. The Tinkers create things for the other fairies to use, they are basically worker fairies.

Tinker Bell has her own little house to live in with all the fairy artifacts she needs! I was impressed with all of the everyday items that we use that Disney managed to turn into nature-related things such as leaf chairs, leaf outfits, rose thorn scissors and lots of other clever things made from plants!

In the film the fairies are preparing for spring. The Tinkers are busy creating new inventions to help the other fairies. Some of the fairies (the Nature Talent fairies) get to go to the mainland to turn Winter into Spring. Tinker Bell wants to go to the mainland too, but since she is just a Tinker (and Tinkers have to stay behind and make things), this isn’t allowed. She is told that until she has some skills like the other fairies, she can’t go.

Tinker Bell comes up with the plan that if she learned the skills of the other fairies, she could change her talent and then go to the mainland for Spring. Tinker Bell doesn’t seem to be able to master the other fairies skills.. so will she ever get to change her talent and fly to the mainland? Well, I’m certainly not going to spoil it for you!

I thought it was really clever the way the fairies were preparing for Spring, doing things like painting the spots on lady birds and flowers, collecting pollen, putting dew drops onto spider webs and teaching new born birds how to fly.

There are two Tinker fairies in Tinker Bells talent group called Bubble and Clank. They both have very over the top Scottish accents, I am from Scotland and even I had to listen extra carefully to understand what they were saying so I think it may be quite hard for some children to get everything they are saying.

I was really impressed with the animated scenery in the film, everything was lovely and green and colourful and had wonderful detail to it. I especially liked all the gold fairy glitter everywhere! Although I prefer the animation style of the old Disney films, I was drawn into how wonderfully ‘Tinker Bell’ was animated.

We all know Tinker Bell from Peter Pan, so it was quite nice to learn a little bit more about her life and how she started off.

There are two songs in the film, one at the start and one at the finish. I find that these still sound very ‘Disney’. They are not pop songs and I think they still have the Disney magic about them.

This is definitely a little girls film! I can’t imagine any boys wanting to sit down and watch this. And I also think once you get past the age of 8 or 9 you won’t want to watch this anymore.

The film has a runtime of 78 minutes. I think this was a good length. The film didn’t drag on and my attention was held throughout!

The DVD is available from Amazon right now for £11.68. I certainly won’t be buying it, and I won’t go out of my way to see it again, but it is a nice little film and I (secretly!) liked watching it.
 

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