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Tinker Bell is a 2008 computer animated film based on the Disney Fairies franchise being produced by DisneyToon Studios. It revolves around Tinker Bell, a fairy character created by J. M. Barrie in his play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, and featured in the 1953 Disney animated film, Peter Pan and its 2002 sequel Return to Never Land. Unlike Disney's two Peter Pan films featuring the character, which were produced primarily using traditional animation, Tinker Bell was produced using digital 3D modeling.
Plot
Tinker Bell (Mae Whitman) is born from the first laugh of a newborn baby, and is brought by the winds to Pixie Hollow (which is part of the island of Never Land).
She meets the other fairies and learns that her talent is to be a tinker, the fairies who make and fix things.
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Tinker Bell is a 2008 computer animated film based on the Disney Fairies franchise being produced by DisneyToon Studios. It revolves around Tinker Bell, a fairy character created by J. M. Barrie in his play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, and featured in the 1953 Disney animated film, Peter Pan and its 2002 sequel Return to Never Land. Unlike Disney's two Peter Pan films featuring the character, which were produced primarily using traditional animation, Tinker Bell was produced using digital 3D modeling.
Plot
Tinker Bell (Mae Whitman) is born from the first laugh of a newborn baby, and is brought by the winds to Pixie Hollow (which is part of the island of Never Land).
She meets the other fairies and learns that her talent is to be a tinker, the fairies who make and fix things. The other tinker fairies try to teach her their craft, and is able to repair an entire ballerina music box using parts found washed up on the beach. But when Tink is told that only nature talent fairies visit the mainland, she finds the other fairies' talents more appealing, and attempts to prove her skill at gardening, tending animals, and other crafts, but fails dramatically at all of them. Her misadventures in one attempt – capturing the dreaded thistles – destroy all the work of the whole fairy community and cause it to consider delaying its main project, bringing Spring to the mainland.
However, Tinker Bell redeems herself by inventing machines that automate the process of decorating flowers, ladybugs, etc., which allows the other fairies to get back on schedule, thus saving the arrival of Spring. She is rewarded for this by being permitted to join the fairies delivering the new season, and delivering her repaired music box to its original owner (in a nod to the Peter Pan film, the owner is shown to be Wendy Darling).
Cast
Crew
- Director - Bradley Raymond
- Writer - Jeffrey M. Howard
Production
Originally Brittany Murphy was up for the role of Tinkerbell but then later lost the role. The movie experienced delays in connection with personnel changes in Disney management. According to a June 2007 article in Variety, Sharon Morrill, the head of DisneyToons direct-to-DVD division since 1994, was removed from this position due to problems with this film, including a budget that had expanded to almost $50 million, and "close to two dozen versions of the script and a dozen different directors." Pixar Animation executives John Lasseter and Ed Catmull were given leadership of Walt Disney Feature Animation after Disney purchased Pixar in early 2006, and although DisneyToons is not under their management, "they are said to have gotten increasingly involved in the unit's operations." Lasseter reportedly said that the film was at that time "virtually unwatchable" and that it would hurt both Walt Disney Feature Animation as well as the Disney Consumer Products line it was meant to support. Morill was moved to "special projects" and the status of the movie was seriously in doubt. Disney observer Jim Hill reported at the time that the complications surrounding this movie had resulted in a decision that Disney would no longer produce straight-to-DVD sequels to its feature films.
One of this film's working titles was Tinker Bell and the Ring of Belief.
Music
The score to the film was composed by Joel McNeely, who recorded the music with an 88-piece ensemble of the Hollywood Studio Symphony at the Sony Scoring Stage.
Soundtrack
The movie's soundtrack was released on October 14, 2008, a week before the DVD release and contains songs from and inspired by the film.
- "To the Fairies They Draw Near" - Loreena McKennitt
- "Fly to Your Heart" - Selena Gomez
- "How to Believe" - Ruby Summer
- "Let Your Heart Sing" - Katharine McPhee
- "Be True" - Jonatha Brooke
- "To the Fairies They Draw Near, Part II" - Loreena McKennitt
- "Shine" - Tiffany Giardina
- "Fly With Me" - Kari Kimmell
- "Wonder of It All" - Scottie Haskell
- "End Credit Score Suite" - Joel McNeely
Marketing
The digitally animated character of Tinker Bell and other fairies appearing in the film were featured in Disney Channel bumpers in which they would draw the channel's logo with their wands. Rosetta's represents her webisode.
Frank Nissen, the director of Cinderella III: A Twist in Time directed a series of webisodes to promote the film on the "Fairies" channel of the Disney XD web site. Except for a few vocal effects, only one contains dialogue.
- Tink and the Bell: Tinker Bell finds a silver jingle bell and makes funny faces on the surface and then gets stuck in it.
- Tink and the Pepper Shaker: Tinker Bell finds a pepper shaker and plays with it.
- Fawn and the Log: Fawn attempts to wake some sleepy squirrels in a log.
- Fawn and the Butterfly: Fawn attempts to get a caterpillar out of its chrysalis so that it could turn into a butterfly.
- Silvermist and the Fish: Silvermist helps a baby fish get over a waterfall so that it can be with its family.
- Iridessa and the Light Bugs: With the help of Pixie Dust, Iridessa helps make lightning bugs glow.
- Rosetta and the Flower: Rosetta has some trouble in attempting to get a stubborn flower bud to open up. (This is the only webisode with two versions: one with dialogue and one without.)
- Tink and the Bird: This one was shown once on ABC in their special airing of Walt Disney's Peter Pan.
Differences between this film and the Disney Fairies series
- All the fairies live on their own in this film. In the books, all but Vidia lived in the Home Tree.
- Tinker Bell is referred to as a "tinker fairy" in the film; in the books she is known as a "pots-and-pans" talent fairy.
- In the film, fairy dust comes from the Pixie Dust Tree. In the books Mother Dove's molted feathers were ground to make dust.
- Mother Dove, who is a very important character in the books, is not mentioned in the film.
- The talents of the fairies are portrayed differently in the film than in the books. For example, in the books the garden talents tended their own garden and fast-flying talents simply flew fast, whereas in the movie garden talents paint flowers and fast-flyers can make mini-tornandos from the wind.
- Queen Clarion's appearance is vastly different from her look in the books.
- Queen Clarion is always referred by her full name; in the books, she is frequently known as Queen Ree.
- In the film, the fairies visit the mainland. In the books, the fairies never leave Neverland, and think of humans as foolish Clumsies.
- All four seasons exist in Pixie Hollow at once in the film. In the books, Pixie Hollow only has two seasons: spring and summer.
- Clank once calls Tinker Bell "Miss Bell" and she doesn't do anything. In Fairy Dust and the Quest for the Egg, Prilla accidentally calls Tinker Bell "Miss Bell" and Tink appears quite shocked.
- In the film, there is an elaborate talent-discovering ceremony once a fairy arrives, whereby the fairy can attempt to select a talent (by choosing its symbol). In the books, all fairies (except Prilla) simply know their talent once they arrive.
- Rosetta looks different than in the books.
Release
The film was released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc on October 28, 2008. Contrary to the previous announcement of the suspension of direct-to-video sequels, they also announced three direct-to-DVD sequels to follow this film, also digitally animated:
- Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure (fall 2009)
- Tinker Bell: A Midsummer Storm (working title, summer 2010)
- Tinker Bell: A Winter Story (working title, winter 2011)
The film saw an exclusive theatrical release at the El Capitan Theatre between September 19 and October 2. It premiered on Disney Channel on November 30 as part of "New in November."
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