|
ToothlessRating:
Release Date: 06 May, 2003 Retail Price: $19.99 OUR Price: $17.99 You SAVE: $2.00! Cast: Complete Cast (11 total) |
Toothless Reviews
It's confirmed...
...there is no God. If there is, he is a sadistic, evil God for allowing this movie to be made.
I am shocked - nay, DISGUSTED - that it has four and a half stars at Amazon. From one reviewer to another: what is wrong with you people!? This had to be one of the worst movies I've ever seen! Every video guide - even ones I disagree with - hate it. Every one I know who has seen this movie hates it. I have officially lost all real faith in Amazon's grading system. What does it say when Amazon's reviewers give "Toothless" a higher rating than they did "Citizen Kane"?
Now you're probably asking yourself, "Just why do you hate this movie with such esteemed passion?" Well, that's easy to answer. One major reason is that this has to be some of the worst filmmaking I have ever seen in my life. Somebody find Melanie Mayron and give her a restraining order for fifty miles within any given movie set. Some scenes looked like they were directed with inspiration from crime dramas like "The Shield" or "Homocide: Life on the Street" - you know, the camera is handheld, gets in the faces of the actors, moves around at an annoying rate. This does not work for a direct-to-video family comedy about the tooth fairy...heck it doesn't even work for things like putting the remote down on the table. (seriously, did we need to suddenly go into "Shield" mode for that part?)
And how about all the glaring plotholes? For example, Kirstie Alley is told to pass over to Heaven you need to show true, unconditional love. Problem here: in the beginning of the movie we really didn't see Alley's character as anything evil, in fact we're told she grew up with a single father and they both got along well. Isn't that love? Alley's character even points it out. What is the movie's response? "Dad's don't count!" Thanks movie you just dissed every respectable father in the world. And did they really expect us to believe that every kid in the world was going to try and see the tooth fairy because one dopey kid said he saw it?
A movie with horrible directing, an atrocious script, and a hero that lets a school bully two feet shorter in height boss him around is NOT supposed to get four and a half stars. I declare a glitch in the Matrix, and ask the staff at Amazon to dispatch their agents to isolate this area and eliminate the problem.
Enjoyable, Fun, Funny, and Entertaining
I bought this movie in 1998 when I had returned to the USA
and was single-parenting to my disabled son. He was a movie
buff, and I needed all the help I could get to keep him
entertained. This movie got a lot of mileage with him, and
I enjoyed it as well.
The story begins with one Dr. Katharine Lewis (Kirstie Alley)
a dentist's daughter who becomes a dentist when she grows up.
Her friend (Melanie Mayron) nags her about how she can't be
happy if she's not in a relationship, but Dr. Lewis pays no
attention to such talk. Then through an accident, Dr. Lewis
finds herself going into the Next World. Panicked by the
prospect that she is actually dead ("I've never been dead
before!"), she eventually meets the one who will be her
overseer in this transitional world that she learns is Limbo,
a rather humorless, pompous officer, Rogers (Lynn Redgrave)
who informs her that she must do community service to earn
her right to enter Heaven or else she will take an express
ride down on the Hellevator -- which the officer greatly
prefers and does not hide the fact. Accidentally, Dr. Lewis
chooses her duty, which turns out to be the Tooth Fairy. She
is told she must collect the teeth of the children each night
while they sleep but must never interact with any humans or
else she will forfeit her right to Heaven.
What Dr. Lewis does not expect is that any child who has not
lost all his baby teeth can still see her. When a child
wakes up and sees her, she finds herself in a jam. Before
long, she finds herself being a counselor and confidante to
the children, and the children start yanking their teeth on
purpose just to meet the Tooth Fairy. This news gets back to
Rogers, who is quick to warn her that it will cost her if she
persists. Of course, Dr. Lewis persists, thinking she can
somehow make a difference -- and ends up meeting a widower
with a child and falls in love. Eventually, she breaks the
ultimate rule and lets adults see her. She is taken back to
Limbo with the intention of sending her to Hell.
She recovers from her accident to learn that she has been
given another chance. She meets with the widower and child,
and sees that Rogers is there to warn her that she is still
being watched.
The movie is Disney entertainment with tons of clever lines
and a happy ending. Kirstie Alley is at her comic best. Lynn
Redgrave's performance as the dour Rogers is priceless. The
soundtrack has hits by the Beach Boys that give the film a
wackiness that works because the film is a comedy-fantasy
of an off-beat nature, not a serious film. For a movie that
is uncomplicated fun, this one is a good bet.
More Customer Reviews (11 total)
You like Toothless?
|
