Tooth Fairy (2010)

Staring a whole host of familiar faces such as Julie Andrews, Ashley Judd
and Billy Crystal (who had some funny scenes) and even Seth MacFarlane
has a quick scene in this but mostly is a vehicle for Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson
to dazzle use with his comedic skills and wit.
basically this is one of those moves where they take a well known "Action Star"
and place them in a family/comedy movie environment. Many action type actors
have went down this road from Vin Diesel in the The Pacifier , to Arnold in
stuff like Kindergarten Cop and Twins and even Sylvester Stallone with
Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot and yes even the Immortal Hulk Hogan went
down this road also Santa with Muscles, anyone?

Anyway this film has a pretty classic story the main character doesn't
believe in something and then ends up becoming what they don't believe
in or finding out the truth in some way. Kind of similar to the The
Santa Clause with Tim Allen.
There where was some nice acting in this and I do like The Rock, but
I don't really favor all these family comedy's he has been in they were
ok mind you and the Rock is a funny guy but I would rather see him
cracking jokes while kicking someones ass rather then cracking jokes
while dancing around in a pink tutu.

I found the whole thing with "the girlfriends son" a bit awkward,
you can tell Rock doesn't want to get to close to the kid becasue
the kid is jaded and wants to keep any man seeing his mom at arms
length which is understandable but you can tell that Rock is actually
trying to warm up to the kid if he just gives him a chance, which comes
in the scene at the music store when Rock stand up for the little guy then
it seems that they became friends too fast, I don't know maybe its just me
but also you only have 2 hours to do this story. The scenes in the
"training montage" kind of help that out.

The effects in this were pretty good the stinking and invisibility stuff
was pretty fun and the scene with the googly eyed dog was pretty funny.
This does have some great moments that do make you chuckle
but I wouldn't consider it overly funny.
Also what about the ending? After he went through all that with the
fairies they just erase his memory?!? which left me thinking, what
was the point of going through all that? was it to say don't give up
on your dreams? or if you have dreams you are a happier better
person? or was it just to motivate the Rock's character out of a slump?
They said he had to be a fairy for the allotted amount of time as punishment
but how is the punishment suppose to stick if they just erase your memory?
I don't know... anyway it wasn't a bad movie, it was pretty alright and
it is worth a watch so give it a try.