There’s a point in which Bell encourages the mouse she’s straddled on to set off on capturing the feared sprinting thistles, even though he’s afraid to. And it doesn’t take long. All she has to do is breath a few whispery words of encouragement into his ear and he can’t resist. I bet that’s because she’s so pretty, as are most of her lady peers.

They’re co-workers, in fact, from Never Land’s Pixie Hollow; divided only by their job titles and the perks those jobs provide. Bell is a tinker fairy, hence the Tinker Bell name, and it is her job to make and fix things. It’s when she finds out, much to her dismay, that tinkers don’t get to go to The Mainland that the story’s plot starts to unfold.

Some of the music is too contemporary for such a mythical concept. The beginning/ending song vocals are particularly questionable. But it’s a cute movie and the 3D animation is absoultely adorable. It’s Tinker Bell though, specifially her Disney-perfect face and the life-like emotional expressions it conjures, that’s most magical.

my rating : 4 of 5

2008