As Ephesians 4:29 says, we must build other people up “according to their needs.” Content: The idea of pursuing personal dreams can be unbiblical, but the movie’s real message is the importance of encouraging other people.
Adding a lot of heart is Derek’s relationship with an attractive widow and her two children.
TOOTH FAIRY is filled with funny physical comedy and witty dialogue. As he slowly adapts to his new position, Derek rediscovers his own forgotten dreams. The next night, Derek is magically transported to Fairyland, where the Chief Tooth Fairy, Lily, played by Julie Andrews, punishes him to one week’s hard labor as a real tooth fairy. The boy wants to be a hockey player, but the embittered Derek dashes the boy’s dreams. Following the game, an admiring boy approaches Derek. Dwayne Johnson plays Derek Thompson, an aging hockey player in the minor leagues, where he is an enforcer called “The Tooth Fairy.” Derek’s “specialty” is to slam other players against the boards, sometimes causing them to lose a tooth. The $1.25 I used to get for having one of my chompers go missing pales in comparison to the receipts that this film will see.TOOTH FAIRY is a zany, witty family movie. I wish when I was a kid I would have found the type of coin that this film should make laying under my pillow. Johnson is becoming more acceptable in comedies, is a consistent name, and the Tooth Fairy is a recognized mythical legend. In my early estimation, I expect Tooth Fairy to skew more closely towards what the Game Plan did at the box office. It earned only $11 million in North America despite having a known star in Ben Affleck.
Also, the writers of Fairy have some experience in the attempted comedy genre having penned the aptly titled Surviving Christmas, a movie you literally had to survive to make it through. Santa Clause 3 failed to deliver the goods in that regard. Both of his sequels earned less money and were more reviled by fans, seeing the original sequel at 5.5 on IMDb and the third entry with a dismal 3.8 IMDB rating. But Clause was an established entity after the success of the original pic earned $144 million in 1994, eight years prior to his coming on board. With The Santa Clause 2 and 3 earning $139 million and $84 million respectively, Lembeck has seen films hit before. He has since broken the century mark stateside on two occasions, leading 2007’s The Game Plan to $110 million and supporting Steve Carell and Anne Hathaway in 2008’s Get Smart, which has hit $130 million domestically. A spin-off of the successful Mummy franchise, The Scorpion King earned $90 million domestically.
Cutting his acting chops on the stage that is known as professional wrestling, he signed the biggest first-time acting payday ever for starring in The Scorpion King back in 2002, hauling in $5.5 million for his work. Johnson, a former University of Miami football player, has had his share of successful films. It’s directed by long-time television Director Michael Lembeck, who is also responsible for helming the second and third portions of the big screen trilogy The Santa Clause, which starred Tim Allen. Ashley Judd and Billy Crystal co-star in the comedy based on the tiny winged one. I’ll take a wild guess and say that he knocks somebody’s tooth (or teeth) out to receive said punishment. The part that is a stretch is when Johnson’s character Derek Thompson is sentenced to be the tooth fairy for a week as penance for a bad deed (presumably made on the ice). That’s not so unrealistic considering he has acted as an athlete in many films. In the highly plausible category of film ideas, Dwayne "no longer The Rock" Johnson stars as a tough guy minor league hockey player in Tooth Fairy. I might have loved this movie when I was 8.