| RATING: | 80% |
| FORMAT: | DVD |
A very definite improvement on Tinker Bell in being funnier, more profound and involving humans: The whole point of fairy folklore. Of course, if you do not believe in fairies, then this one is a miss. And much of the story in this one is about prosaic adults and their belief that they have transcended animism in favor of a rational science that details the how and not the why: The very reason for the persistence of such folk tales, in the first place; the inability of science to explain so much of lived experience.
The standard problems with contemporary (2011) CGI is the odd combination of attempting to model reality scrupulously while telling tall, fantastical tales. This reflects a lack of confidence in the technology that reveals the sense that its practitioners still feel they have something to prove - esthetically. This partly explains the weakness of the characterization as opposed to the high quality of the ideas.
This is a good and charming adventure story with decent songs and a super-polite English girl who wins your affections immediately in her motherless condition and her father's inability to find the time to pay attention to her. There is also an amusing fat pet cat that would love to sink its teeth into the heroines. In the end, the scientistic world-view is comprehensively critiqued as accepting as empirical only that which it can destroy - in the form of butterflies pinned in glass cases rather than flying free. To reductively apprehend reality by only seeing the parts and never the whole. Seeing is not believing; believing is seeing - at least in this movie.
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