'TOOTH FAIRY': One Star (Out of Five)
Duayne 'The Rock' Johnson stars as a 'has been' minor league hockey player known as 'The Tooth Fairy', for his violent tooth breaking hockey antics, who is sentenced to serving one week as a real 'tooth fairy' for demoralizing kids. The film is of course ridiculously bad with the exceptions of some small comedic performances from Stephen Merchant and Seth MacFarlane and a few somewhat touching inspirational moments, besides that everything feels forced, by the numbers and completely over the top.
The most disappointing thing about the movie is the continuing decay of the once great action star Johnson, who used to make some rather good action films (like 'THE RUNDOWN' and 'WALKING TALL') now he just makes one bad 'sell-out' kids movie after another. Even if his action films weren't as big at the box office as his kids' films that's still no excuse; Van Damme and Seagal are still making several multimillion dollar paychecks on low budget mostly direct to video action films that still make a killer profit. They know how to still do what they do best and make decent money at it without selling out (and some of their films are still just as good if not better than their old ones). 'The Rock' needs to get his head together and return to doing what he does best before it's too late.
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Duayne 'The Rock' Johnson stars as a 'has been' minor league hockey player known as 'The Tooth Fairy', for his violent tooth breaking hockey antics, who is sentenced to serving one week as a real 'tooth fairy' for demoralizing kids. The film is of course ridiculously bad with the exceptions of some small comedic performances from Stephen Merchant and Seth MacFarlane and a few somewhat touching inspirational moments, besides that everything feels forced, by the numbers and completely over the top.
The most disappointing thing about the movie is the continuing decay of the once great action star Johnson, who used to make some rather good action films (like 'THE RUNDOWN' and 'WALKING TALL') now he just makes one bad 'sell-out' kids movie after another. Even if his action films weren't as big at the box office as his kids' films that's still no excuse; Van Damme and Seagal are still making several multimillion dollar paychecks on low budget mostly direct to video action films that still make a killer profit. They know how to still do what they do best and make decent money at it without selling out (and some of their films are still just as good if not better than their old ones). 'The Rock' needs to get his head together and return to doing what he does best before it's too late.
Watch our review show 'MOVIE TALK' at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j95Zjdlcbe0