The tale of Disneys favorite fairy, Tinker Bell, continues in an all-new magical adventure beyond Pixie Hollow! Discover how the Pixies make their magic dust! Let your imagination soar as Autumn comes to Pixie Hollow. Take off in a hot air balloon with Tinker Bell and her new friend Blaze, a lightning bug who lights her way, on an enchanting secret journey to find a new moonstone, the source of the Pixies mystical dust. But hold on tight! There ll be amazing encounters, some close calls, and a daring rescue by her old friend Terence! In her biggest adventure yet, Tinker Bell not only learns a lesson in responsibility, she discovers the true meaning of friendship. From the creators of Tinker Bell, Tinker Bell And The Lost Treasure is a captivating journey of self-discovery everyone will want to take.
Tinkerbell is back for a whole new season of adventure in Tinkerbell and the Lost Treasure. Pixie Hollow is all abuzz with preparations for autumn and Tinkerbell is hard at work on her latest invention when she is unexpectedly summoned by Queen Clarion and the Minister of autumn. Tinkerbell fears that she’s in trouble again, but is instead delighted to find out that Fairy Mary has recommended her for the important job of creating a one-of-a-kind scepter that will focus the light of an unusual blue harvest moon through a rare moonstone in order to replenish the pixie dust tree’s supply of pixie dust. Tinkerbell gladly rises to the challenge, accepting her dust-keeper friend Terrence’s offers of help, but as the days fly rapidly by, pressure begins to build and Tinkerbell becomes annoyed by Terrence’s constant attention. Sending Terrence away on an errand seems like a good idea, but what he brings back inadvertently causes the almost finished scepter and the incredibly rare moonstone to break into pieces. Tinkerbell lashes out at Terrence and then departs alone on a desperate quest to fix the moonstone. What Tinkerbell learns on her journey is that she must take responsibility for her own actions and that the power and value of true friendship is much greater than she’d ever imagined. Like the first Tinkerbell, the colors and clarity of animation are simply breathtaking in this production, but the story lags somewhat thanks to a lengthy set up and a general lack of suspense in the first half of the film. Still, it’s a perfectly entertaining movie that will delight children ages 3 and up as well as satisfy most parents. Returning voice talent includes Mae Whitman, Kristin Chenoweth, Jane Horrocks, Anjelica Huston, Jesse McCartney, and Raven-Symone. –Tami Horiuchi
Stills from Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure
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March 8, 2008
#1
Bought the soundtrack on itunes!
It is fantastic Love the title song and Fly Away home by Alyson Stoner!
March 8, 2008
#2
The poses offered and slight crotch shots are not approporiate and my fustration with disney everything from ceos getting caught to employess caught doing pedophiolia is constantly reminded. It is disgusting and I choose the barbie movies now eventhough the graphics aren’t as good.
March 8, 2008
#3
This item was ordered and I was charged for it, but I never received the item. Needless to say, that I will not order from this seller again.
March 8, 2008
#4
If readers saw my purchasing history they’d see quickly that if Disney put it out, I’ve likely purchased it, or at least I’ve seen it (rental, etc.)
{Most} Disney movies inspire fond memories for me and take me back to days of my youth when my long departed grandfather was still running the local movie house in my hometown area. He would regularly show Disney films that families could go to and enjoy together. What I didn’t realize at the time was that many of those films were decades old and were just making the latest trip to theatres while being ‘released from the vault’ for another limited run. There were films that were new at the time, including a host of ‘live action’ films, but the classic animated films were mostly re-releases.
One of those classics that I remember enjoying a lot was Peter Pan. The tale of the king of the lost boys fighting Captain Hook was filled with fun and adventure and wasn’t as sugary sweet as Snow White or Cinderella was. On the other hand, Peter Pan included a character/role that still put thoughts of sugar plums in little girls heads: Tinker Bell.
Years later Disney’s current regime is now looking to use Tinker Bell in a series of her own adventures that will hopefully bring in youngsters for (basically) straight to video releases.
Personally I see several problems with this. First, this effort seems a bit disrespectful to the original classic film. There’s an image of Tinker Bell that remained from seeing Peter Pan that isn’t necessarily in line with the image that is pushed via this film.
Even if you can get past that problem, there’s also what is, to me, a relatively unsatisfactory video presentation over all. There’s nothing inherently wrong with the video quality except that it isn’t the same style as what a fan of the original animated Disney classics is used to, nor is it any where near the quality that would be found in a Pixar release. It sits relatively blandly in the middle of the road, lacking obvious inspiration.
Additionally, the presentation is flawed at times thanks to the conversion to the smaller screen. Even on a reasonably sized home TV (37″ flat panel), there are small details that are easily ‘lost’ or hard to see. Details like the ‘trail’ of pixie dust that should be flashing along behind the fairies as they fly along. Not to mention text in the menu that is so small and hard to read that one wonders what size screen the people that put the disc together were working with or targetting?
Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure offers up a relatively short tale (80 minutes, give or take), but the tale itself seems to take a little while to get going. By the time the story is moving along it seems that nearly half the film is gone. Younger audiences may not notice how predictable the story is, and they may oooooh and ahhhhhh a bit at key points in the relatively flimsy plot, but I wouldn’t expect much more than that sort of response. For a small portion of the intended audience I suppose you may see demands for repeat viewings, but for most viewers I expect this film would be a one and done type viewing, if even that.
My own recommendation is tread carefully if you are thinking of purchasing this one. If possible, consider Unbox or something similar and save your purchase money for one of the true Disney classics, or perhaps the upcoming Monsters, Inc. release.
March 8, 2008
#5
Awful, boring, and overdone in the way computer-generated cartoons invariably are outside of Pixar.
We used to love Tinkerbell growing up and it is a shame to see this tripe diminish the brand. So bad our 2-year-old wouldn’t watch it for 5 minutes.