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My daughters can’t get enough of Tinker Bell. They have a Tinker Bell nightlight, light switch cover and night gowns. So as a post-Christmas present (meaning we had a gift card to spend) I broke down and bought them TinkerBell on DVD.

Overall, it’s a fun movie. The movie looks at how Tinker Bell came to be, well, Tinker Bell. She’s a “tinker fairy” who is responsible for making and fixing things in Pixie Hollow, but she would rather be a different class of fairy and be able to go to the “mainland” to welcome in spring. The main message of the movie is being happy with yourself, not a bad thing to teach young girls. 

I was surprised by the celebrities who lent their voices to the movie. Mae Whitman voices Tinker Bell. The cast also includes Anjelic Huston , Lucy Liu and Kristin Chenoweth, to name a few. 

The movie doesn’t quite keep the attention of four 3-year-olds, but what feature-length movie does? All in all they enjoyed the movie and ask to watch it every day.

I enjoyed the bonus features. There are several references in the movie to Peter Pan , which I didn’t pick up on until I watched the bonus material. It’s nice to see the creators of Tinker Bell acknowledge her roots.

My only complaint is what happens when Tinker Bell changes into her “fairy costume.” She comes out of her hut in her super-short dress and the male fairies go ga-ga. It seemed slightly inappropriate for a kid’s movie, but at the same time I understand that’s the outfit she wore in Peter Pan, so the creators of this movie couldn’t exactly change things. Overall, though, this was a fun movie to watch.

My daughters’ rating: 4 thumbs up (out of 4)

My rating: 3 1/2 stars (out of 4)

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