Tinker Bell
Tags: fantasy

Plot synopsis:
Tinker Bell (Mae Whitman) is born from the first laugh of a baby, and is brought by the winds to Pixie Hollow (which is part of the island of Never Land). She learns that her talent is to be one of the tinkers, the fairies who make and fix things. Two other tinker fairies, Bobble (Rob Paulsen) and Clank (Jeff Bennett), teach her their craft, and tell her about the fairies who visit the mainland to bring each season. Tinker Bell is thrilled and cannot wait to go to the mainland for spring.
While out working, she meets Silvermist (Lucy Liu), a water fairy; Rosetta (Kristin Chenoweth), a garden fairy; Iridessa (Raven-Symoné), a light fairy; and Fawn (America Ferrera), an animal fairy. After meeting them, she notices Vidia (Pamela Adlon), a fast-flying fairy who immediately dislikes her because of her unusually strong talent. Vidia challenges her to prove she will be able to go to the mainland, and Tinker Bell creates several inventions, which she shows to the Minister of Spring (Steve Valentine). But Tinker Bell soon learns from Queen Clarion (Anjelica Huston) that only nature-talent fairies visit the mainland.
She tries her hand at nature skills; making dewdrops with Silvermist, lighting fireflies with Iridessa, and trying with Fawn to teach baby birds to fly, but she fails miserably at all of these. Meanwhile, Bobble and Clank cover for Tinker Bell when questioned by Fairy Mary (Jane Horrocks), the tinker fairy overseer. When Tinker Bell returns, she tries to explain, but Mary simply responds that she knows, and expresses her disappointment with Tinker Bell's actions.
On the beach, Tinker Bell finds parts of a music box and figures out how to put them together. Iridessa, Fawn, Silvermist, and Rosetta witness her doing this, then tell her that she was tinkering and that she should be proud of her talent—if this is what she's good at, the mainland should not matter. But Tinker Bell still wants to go to the mainland. She asks Rosetta if she will still teach her to be a garden fairy, but Rosetta says she thinks that tinkering is Tinker Bell's talent.
As a last resort, Tinker Bell asks Vidia for help in becoming a garden fairy. Vidia craftily tells her that capturing the sprinting thistles would prove her worth. However, once she sees Tinker Bell making progress, she lets the captured thistles loose, and in attempting to recapture them, Tinker Bell destroys all the preparations for spring. Tinker Bell decides to leave, but after talking with the light-keeper, Terence (Jesse McCartney), about how important his job is, she realizes the importance of a tinker.
Tinker Bell redeems herself by inventing machines that quicken the process of decorating flowers, ladybugs, etc. This allows the other fairies to get back on schedule, thus saving the arrival of spring. Vidia is punished for prompting her to cause the chaos, and Queen Clarion allows Tinker Bell to join the nature-talent fairies when they bring spring to the mainland. Tinker Bell is given the task of delivering the music box to its original owner (shown to be Wendy Darling). The narrator ends by saying that when lost toys are found or a broken clock starts to work, "it all means that one very special fairy might be near."

Review: This was much better than some of the theatrically released Disney animated films I've seen (notably "Atlantis"), making it among the best of the Mouse's direct-to-video titles.
I've seen some trailers and clips from this movie and the animation looked quite good, so although my expectations weren't the highest, I still hoped that "Tinker Bell were going to be a watchable picture - which it turned out to be.It's a shame that this film wasn't released on theaters, cause, like Brettster said, it was much better than Disney's recently theatrical releases ("Chicken Little", "The Wild") and a whole lot better than the previous "Peter Pan"-cartoon, "Return to Neverland".Anyway, about the movie; It is very sweet in many ways.
The animation is absolutely beautiful and detailed and the delightful score (which is sometimes Irish inspired) provides the sweet, enchanting mood of the film.
The movie is a film that families can safely watch together.And then there's the songs; "Tinker Bell" doesn't contain many songs, which is good, cause often the songs on Disney's non-theatrical releases are quite mediocre.
I admit, I am a fan of Tinker Bell (something a 22 year old MALE wouldn't approve of, like me), and I've always wanted to see this enchanting but short film.
It's magical in every way.Tinker Bell is born as a tinker, a fairy who makes teapots out of nuts.
She does not approve of this and wants to be like the other fairies that travel to the mainland.
Most of these cast members you'll already know, like Mae Whitman (best known as Katara from Avatar: The Last Airbender), America Ferra (TV's Ugly Betty), Rob Paulsen (Danny Phantom) and even Steve Valentine (TV's Crossing Jordan).Overall, this is a very sweet and funny film that, despite its short running time, will leave its magic mark of pixie dust with you forever.
also i have read peter pan and researched into James Barrie's life for hours on end, but I still loved this movie.
it was adorable and cute and even though they changed the feisty Tinkerbell that was, it was placed before peter pan.
In fact, she likes it better than many of the more highly touted Disney theatrical releases.The character of Tinker Bell is truly charming, and in my opinion, much more enjoyable than the classical portrayal in Peter Pan. Sue me, I LIKE that Tink can speak.
She's still gutsy, and independent, but in this movie has far better motivations for her actions than jealousy over Peter Pan.All of the faeries' characterizations were entertainingly done, and I like that they all had their own "thing" going on.
Other plus points include some really pretty animation (young girls in particular will love the eye-popping colors and the liberal use of sparkle) and a good overall message.
Both my daughter and myself enjoyed the celtic-inspired score and tunes, so if your child likes different types of music other than just top 40 pop, she/he should enjoy this as well.My only minor quibble is that at times the dialogue is a tad insipid and inane, and the over-use of the term "Sweetie" when the faeries are addressing each other.For a movie that was designed for the home DVD market, I think that this one delivers much more bang for your entertainment buck than many of the big budget theatrical releases..
While too short with some moments of insipid dialogue, Tinkerbell is a cute and entertaining movie that never tries to be anything more than it is.The film looks surprisingly great, initially I was expecting something along along the lines of all gloss no depth, but the look is clean and quite warm with gorgeous colours and all the fairies look convincing.The music I also loved.
The story is very simple, but it is very sweet with a good message that doesn't feel forced or preachy.The characters are really quite engaging.
I have never hated Tinkerbell as much as others did in the Disney Peter Pan movie, which is not a Disney favourite but I like it very much for the music, but she is much more likable here and the fact that she isn't jealous or stubborn here will make her easy to relate for the younger crowd.The voice work is on paper of high-calibre, and in the film they do do sterling jobs.
Mae Whitman is very emotive and resourceful in the title role, but the standout for me was the immensely talented Anjelica Huston who is really quite excellent, also she is a presence that adults will thoroughly enjoy.In conclusion, a cute and fun little movie.
8/10 Bethany Cox. Good cute movie when you see it separately from Peter Pan....
For me that cartoon is good, but Tinker Bell here is not the Tinker Bell from Peter Pan...
Not really any bad character in the movie, that is relaxing and very different of most where there are villains...
The worst "villain" here is another fairy, jealous for actually no reason, just like kids fight, not real ones...
If you think it's Peter Pan fairy, you'll hate that movie...
Really great Animation FIlm. I really liked this movie very much.
The audience group would be mostly little girls I guess but even I as an adult enjoyed watching it because it's such a nice story with lovely characters and a predictable but beautiful ending.One must not expect the Tinkebell in this movie to be the one from Peter Pan, the character here is a lot different, however I wouldn't let this fact influence my rating for this movie because I think it would be unfair to give a good movie a bad rating only because of this.So to anyone who loves Fantasy stories and fairy tales I would definitely recommend to watch this movie (with or without children)..
Its about a fairy wanting more from life, believing she's not bound to doing tinkering her whole life.
In a way I could relate to Tinker Bell.The animation was good.
The Bad:Our title character has almost zero points in common with her character from Peter Pan, nor does Peter Pan seem to exist in this universe (we certainly never see him in any of the Tinker Bell series films).
The plot is not terribly clever (and I don't feel that just because this is a film aimed at young kids that you need to be overly formulaic) and most of the fairies – who look so interesting – get very little screen time.
Tinker Bell's "talent" feels like lazy writing rather than something clever (and, although this doesn't affect the rating on this movie, the rest of the series seems to mostly ignore this idea for Tinker Bell).
The Good:Tinker Bell seems to have had a personality make-over (probably because she is actually so unlikable in Peter Pan).
Tinker Bell's talent, is not a stereotyped "girl's skill", which is nice since this movie is heavily marketed towards little girls.
The Mom view:There is nothing objectionable about the film and while predictable for an adult, a young child might not see the end coming and enjoy Tinker Bell's discovery along with her.
The moral of the story – finding what you are good at and being happy in that – is not bad, but it might also be seen as "don't try things you aren't skilled at", which isn't as good of a lesson to absorb.
Uunless you have a child who absolutely loves fairies (NOT one who loves Peter Pan), this is pretty skip-able..
As is always the case with Disney movies, the animation in "Tinker Bell" is absolutely top notch - drawn with an obviously delicate touch, realistic and very, very beautiful.
Tinker Bell is a Disney character everyone knows, but about whom we know virtually nothing, so the idea of filling in the little fairy's past was a good one, as was the thought of giving us a glimpse of how fairy life is organized.
I also didn't think that - aside from Tinker Bell herself - any of the characters in this movie were particularly memorable, and I was extremely disappointed with the music.
Disney can usually be counted on for finding memorable songs to go along with their movies, but the music here was, again, not something that I thought young kids would relate well too, and certainly I won't be singing any of the Gaelic-inspired tunes that were used here.
we,people from India(me and many friend) Like all part of tinker bell.we need or want more like these.so kindly create more animation specially tinker bell.
i think this kind of concept and imagination is great.it also better for children.and also these animation make mind free,nice,peaceful.
there is another animation which help to thought about animals.yes its about ice age.i know its not yours.but good is good.however we wait for tinker bell part 7/8/9/10, i don't know about other country or other people but we Indian,king of emotions.always like these movie.
I really like Tinker Bell now.
I was never a fan of Peter Pan and I certainly didn't like Tinker Bell in that movie.
However I do like fairies and was curious to see what they would do with a movie of Tinker Bell living her life in Pixie Hollow with the other fairies.
At first I thought the digital graphics would bother me as I was used to the more classic Tinker Bell animation.
Next to Tinker Bell's story we learn about the different kind of fairies, their abilities and duties, which came in really handy for me a storywriter.
I was also glad to hear that this movie will have sequels which will probably end at the moment she meets up with Peter Pan. I liked Tinker Bell without Peter and the lost boys.
It's maybe not perfect as I would have hoped to get to know the other fairies better too, but I guess the sequels will work on that.
My toddlers who are two and three love this movie, but it's so packed with kitsch that I can't bear to watch it.It's cloyingly sweet all the way through, reminds me of Thomas Kinkade paintings.I can't imagine it's good for little minds to form their visual taste on this kind of cheesy junk.I'm just surprised a respectable actress like Anjelica Houston would associate herself with such a project, but it makes sense that it went straight to DVD.
They did a good job of expanding on the character of tinker bell.
I cant wait to watch the next Tinker Bell movie..
Tinker Bell is a surprising good direct to DVD.
It tells the story of Tinker Bell's origins.
this movie shows you should be proud of your talents and not to try and be something you're not.At first Tink does not want to be a "tinker" but she comes to realize that she was born to be a "tinker".
She loves and is great at building things which you don't see too much in kids movies.
Unlike most Disney movies she does not need a boy to rescue her..
One of my favorite childhood films is Peter Pan, the Walt Disney version.
It also introduced us to one of Disney's ultimate bad girls, Tinker Bell.
Modeled after Marilyn Monroe, she's one of Disney's true little beauties who fought for her true love and despite everything that she did to hide it, she really does have a good heart.
I wasn't sure how it would work but decided to give it a shot.Tinker Bell is born from the first laugh of a baby, and is brought by the winds to Pixie Hollow.
She learns that her talent is to be one of the tinkers, the fairies who make and fix things.
Tinker Bell is thrilled and cannot wait to go to the mainland for spring.
Vidia challenges her to prove she will be able to go to the mainland, and Tinker Bell creates several inventions, which she shows to the Minister of Spring.
But Tinker Bell soon learns from Queen Clarion that only nature-talent fairies visit the mainland.
Tinker Bell still wants to go to the mainland and asks Vidia for help in becoming a garden fairy.
The story is very predictable and Tinker Bell is completely different than what I grew up with.
There's nothing about her that is like her original story, so if that's what you're looking for, don't bother seeing this film.
I'd also say this movie would entertain your kids very much, it's got the good morals going on and a nice story.
Tinker Bell is still a little beauty that could melt your heart.
I really don't like ANY of the Tinkerbell movies to be honest.
Not to mention the fact that they can also CREATE sunshine and water, even though is was established earlier they couldn't.While I like the background designs, the voice talent and the animation, it does NOTHING to save this TERRIBLE, TERRIBLE movie.
I guess I didn't like this as much as most people, but it's still a good movie.
This is notable in marking the end of the direct to video Disney sequels everyone was complaining about to make room for the Tinker Bell movies.
This movie actually tells us about Tinker Bell's name.
In this movie, she tries her hand at various other things besides tinkering.
It turns out that her special talent was tinkering all the time.
I mean, that's pretty original for a kid's movie.
And as it was Tinkerbell's first movie showing how she was born and first arrived in Pixie Hollow, the first lot of Disney Fairies knew her before the newer ones, and in the end of the movie, she found the owner of the music box, which I suspected would be Wendy ...
but this again was weird as when I read Tinkerbell's mini book, it said "Dinsy Fairies" is set after Peter Pan ...
(Though nothing was said to that effect) I certainly hope they do another movie (or series) with the first Disney Fairies as well as the newer ones - and that it is superior to this one.
Tink looked way better when they did the first wave of Fairies also.
too nice, if you see the Otiginal Pater Pan, Tink has a lot more spunk.I liked Silvermist a lot (even when I saw her on a site before I saw the movie.) She was very beautiful.
I read her mini book and while she doesn't isn't a nice Fairy, she certainly was not vindictive, nasty or cruel and I was hoping to see more character depth, but sadly, not a jot.
The animation threw me as I think for this movie, traditional line drawings would have been better, mixed with CGI for the surrounding scenery and the sparkles, but the Fairies did not look as beautiful and spectacular as they did in previous animation drawings I had seen of them.However, that aside, praises I will give this movie is the special effects of the pixie dust and sparkles, fairies flying the glow when Queen Clarion appeared and when Tink first arrived and the hammer glowed, were beautiful and the scenery looked lovely.
And I liked the message to be proud of who you are, even if one does not think they are special.
This is a parable for a child or a person who is overweight, different, or perhaps not good at something like math or science, to know that there is something special that they can do which is unique to them and something they can do well.
Like Tink I found I had special talents too ...
I found that I love to write, and I have a deep empathy with people and like to help people.However, next time I will not be so trusting and hire a movie at the video shop before I buy it!
Spoilers in this review.Tinkerbell is a computer animated movie that tells the story of the title character's origin.
According to this direct to video movie, Tinkerbell was born of a baby's laughter and arose fully formed in Pixie Hollow, the magical place in Neverland where all the fairies live.
Over the course of the movie, she learns to accept herself for who she is and embraces her role within the bigger picture of Pixie Hollow.My main problem with this movie is that the character of Tinkerbell has nothing to do with the one from the 1952 Peter Pan movie, or even the original play.
The original Tink had attitude, but was straightforward.Some of the animation is nice to look at, but overall, I really have a hard time with the choices made in this adaption.
To me, Tinkerbell was a very special character, and should have been protected better.
I had seen the original 1953 Disney animated film Peter Pan, and its sequel made nearly fifty years later, and I guess a film focusing on the famous pixie fairy sounded relatively interesting, so I watched it.
Born into this world as a fairy herself is Tinker Bell (Independence Day's Mae Whitman), who before settling in has to find her skill and talent, like all the fairies have, and she is selected by her tool as a "tinker".
In the end, Vidia gets what she deserves for being mean, and Tinker Bell proves herself the hero by saving the Spring season ready for the Main Land, and as reward she is allowed to see it, and return a toy spinning ballerina back to its owner, a little girl named Wendy (of course).
This CGI feature from Disney tells the origin of Tinker Bell.
The fact that the Tinker Bell shown here is nothing like Barrie's is neither here nor there - neither was the Tinker Bell in the original animated feature.
Likewise the fact that the visual look is very clean and simple, without the multiple rendering passes for adding levels of texture - this doesn't matter.Because Tinker Bell is primarily a film for relatively small children.