Hello, Spongey here.
Let's talk about the Fairly OddParents.
Everyone remembers this quirky cartoon, about a boy who receives fairy's who grant his every wish. It was a great show that has last for about 10 years.
It was very popular and successful. And as we may have discussed before, if a cartoon is popular , they make a live action movie out of it.
Yes, i am dead serious. They made a live action Fairly odd parents movie.
Still here? Okay, let's just start
Plot: Timmy is now 23 years old but is still in fifth grade with his fairy-obsessed fifth grade teacher Mr. Crocker. Despite being grown up, Timmy finds a loophole in the fairy rulebook Da Rules: if he continues to act like a kid, he will still get to keep his fairies. However, the dilemma rises when Tootie, who was once a dorky girl when she was 10 years old, returns to Dimmsdale as an attractive woman. Timmy falls in love with her, a sign that he is growing up to an adult, which means he is closer to losing his fairies. Meanwhile, an oil business tycoon named Hugh J. Magnate, Jr., who teams up with Mr. Crocker, plans to use Timmy's fairies' magic in order to promote his oil business.
Final Thoughts:
If you read that plot and didn't facepalm, you fail.
Where do i BEGIN with this?!
Let's start with the characters, and how they are handled.
Timmy and Tootie are...suck-ish. Drake Bell plays Timmy, and i like him, but he can not play timmy at all. Timmy acts nothing like himself, and you just can't latch on to him like in the show. Tootie is played by Daniella Monet, and while i do like her, she sucks as tootie. Tootie acts nothing like tootie, and is just nothing like she should be. They ruined a perfectly good character!
Cosmo, Wanda, and Poof, are CGI. Which is kinda stupid. Why make it live action if some people are gonna be animated anyway? I just hate it when movies do that. *cough* Smurfs *cough*. On top oh that,. Cosmo and Wanda, but mainly wanda, are grossly out of character. As much as they love timmy, they would normally support him when he falls in love. I just think Wanda is smarter then that,.
And the minor characters aren't any better. Chester and AJ look nothing like their cartoon versions. AJ is BARLY black! And Chester looks like a goddamned beatnik.
And Vicky, kind of looks like vicky, but she doesn't act...vicky enough. If that makes sense. Plus, she never talks to tootie, or does anything besides being used for a quick gag with jorgen.
Speaking of Jorgen, he is one the best parts of the movie. His actor is so bad, that it's just funny. I'm sure his lines will be a meme soon.
Timmy Parent's are pretty good. Hell, they are played by the same actor's who originally voiced them!
Crocker, and Hugh, are simply the best parts. The actor's do an ok job with them, but you can't take them seriously at all. So there's alot of funny moments that are meant to be serious.
To sum this up: This movie sucks. the acting isn't good, it's too much like the show, yet not enough, and the ending (which i shall not spoil) ruins the entire point of the movie!
BUT, it was entertaining to an extent. There are movie like The Room and Troll 2 that are so bad, they wrap around and become fun. Thanks to some happy acting from Crocker of course. But, it's not really enough to make it a good movie, and it's still terrible. But, if you get a few friends, you can riff on it and have fun. But...it still bites the big one
Final Sore: 4/10
