Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue

Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue is a computer animated film based on the Disney Fairies franchise, produced by Disneytoon Studios. It is the sequel to the 2009 film, Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure and revolves around Tinker Bell, a fairy character created by J.M. Barrie in his play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up and featured in subsequent adaptations. The film was produced using Digital 3D modeling. It was released on DVD and Blu-ray by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment on September 21, 2010 and received a theatrical release in several countries.
==Plot==
Like many other fairies from Pixie Hollow, Tinker Bell (Mae Whitman) attends fairy camp on the mainland. When she attempts to go find some lost things, Vidia (Pamela Adlon) asks her if she's going to the human house, which isn't too far from camp. The question makes Tinker Bell curious and she eventually sneaks off. Vidia follows behind to watch over her. When Tink reaches the human house, she is amazed by their "horseless carriage". She takes the time to flitter around under the car, while Vidia tries to get her to leave. Eventually they do, but on their way back to camp, Tink and Vidia stumble upon a fairy sized house made by Elizabeth "Lizzy" Griffiths (Lauren Mote), a human girl who wishes to meet a real fairy. Tinker Bell immediately heads in to investigate, despite Vidia's constant warnings to leave. Tink claims it to be perfectly safe, so Vidia uses her wind to slam the door in an attempt to give Tink a little scare but it unintentionally locks Tink inside.
When Lizzy begins to approach the house, Vidia tries to free Tink but it's no use. Lizzy discovers Tink inside the house and takes her to her home. She prepares to show her father, Dr. Griffiths (Michael Sheen), but upon witnessing all the butterflies he has pinned in display cases for research, she decides to keep Tink a secret. Meanwhile, Vidia rallies Rosetta (Kristin Chenoweth), Iridessa (Raven-Symoné), Fawn (Angela Bartys), Silvermist (Lucy Liu), Clank (Jeff Bennett), and Bobble (Rob Paulsen) to rescue Tink.
Back at the human house, Lizzy reveals her fascination with fairies to Tink. Tink is flattered by the child's obsession, and since it's raining outside, Tink decides to teach her nearly everything about fairies. She tells her how light fairies make rainbows, how animal fairies paint butterflies, and much more. They record their information in a new research book given to Lizzy by her father. During this time, Tink and Lizzy have grown a great friendship, but the rain dies down after a while, and Tink can return to camp. She gives a sad Lizzy a hug and makes her way out, but she watches Lizzy attempt to show her father the research before she leaves.
Unfortunately, Dr. Griffiths is too busy fixing the house's leaks, as usual, to pay Lizzy any mind. Tink returns and decides to fix the leaks so Lizzy may spend more time with her father. After she does so, she chooses to release a captive butterfly Dr. Griffiths was planning on showing to a group of scientists, which causes a stern and suspicious Dr. Griffiths to ground Lizzy. To make up, Tink shows Lizzy how to fly and when her father finds footprints on the ceiling, she tells him about Tink, but he disbelieves her and tells Lizzy that she wastes her talent on things that don't exist, Lizzy gets tired of her father never believing her and Martin declares that he only believes in what is real (not knowing that fairies do exist) and he begins to throw all her fairy drawings and research book, into the trash.
Tinker Bell becomes enraged and turns red upon seeing Martin destroying Lizzy's work, so she leaves Lizzy's little house and confronts Martin, scolding him for his stupid behavior (though he only hears jingles when she talks). The astonishing sight of a fairy prompts Dr. Griffiths to capture Tink, but Vidia arrives and pushes her out of the way. Vidia is then taken by Dr. Griffiths to London for research, but Lizzy and the fairies convince him to think otherwise, which he does. Vidia is freed, and she and Tink form a friendship. Lizzy and her father are now closer than ever.
At the end, Tink holds a tea party for her fairy friends near the fairy camp on the mainland, joined by Lizzy and her father.
==Cast==
The voice actors are largely the same as in the previous films.
* Mae Whitman - Tinker Bell, a hard working tinker fairy
* Lauren Mote - Elizabeth "Lizzy" Griffiths, a lonely nine year old girl
*Michael Sheen - Dr. Griffiths, a scientist and Lizzy's father
* Pamela Adlon - Vidia, a fast flying fairy who is jealous of Tinker Bell
* Lucy Liu - Silvermist, a kind hearted Asian water fairy
* Raven-Symoné - Iridessa, a sympathetic African American light fairy
* Kristin Chenoweth - Rosetta, a girly Southern garden fairy
* Angela Bartys - Fawn, a tomboyish animal fairy
* Rob Paulsen - Bobble, a Scottish tinker fairy with large glasses
* Jeff Bennett - Clank, a large British tinker fairy with a booming voice
* Jesse McCartney - Terence, the pixie dust keeper who is often the voice of reason for Tinker Bell
* Cara Dillon - Narrator
* Faith Prince - Mrs. Perkins, a neighbor of Lizzy and Dr. Griffiths
* Bob Bergen - Additional Voices
==Music==
The score to the film was composed by Joel McNeely, who scored the first two Tinker Bell films.
===Soundtrack===
* "Summer's Just Begun" - Cara Dillon (written by Brendan Milburn and Valerie Vigoda of GrooveLily)
* "Come Flying With Me" - Cara Dillon (music by Joel McNeely, lyrics by Brendan Milburn and Valerie Vigoda)
* "How to Believe" - Bridgit Mendler (written by Adam Iscove)
=== Score ===
On February 16, 2015, Intrada Records (co-branded with Disney) released a soundtrack album.
See: Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
==Release==
The film was released in the United States on September 21, 2010. Like the previous two films, Great Fairy Rescue debuted on the Disney Channel in November 2010. Sometime during 2010, Disney theatrically released the film in the Los Angeles area in order to make it eligible for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. Disney qualified the film in an unsuccessful effort to expand the category's final nominations from 3 to 5, as, under the Academy rules in effect that year, 5 films could only have been nominated in a calendar year in which 16 or more animated films were submitted. In the United Kingdom and Ireland, the film was released in cinemas on August 13, 2010, following a premiere held at the May Fair Hotel in London on August 8, attended by Lauren Mote."
== Trivia ==
* Chronologically, this film is very likely to take place at least one year since the events of the first Tinker Bell film and at least 9-10 months after the events of Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure, as since the first movie takes place in spring, while the second movie takes place in autumn, and this film takes place after a full cycle of seasons since both movies, which by then, the tinker fairies are finally allowed to visit the mainland. 
*The relationship between Lizzy and her father is very similar to Wendy Darling's relationship with her father George Darling from the original Peter Pan film.
**In-universe, Tink teaching young Lizzy to fly would lead up to her teaching Wendy and her brothers how to fly in Peter Pan.
*Just like in the second movie, Tinker Bell was given a new outfit, where her green outfit in this film is similar to that to the Peter Pan movies (and her other animated appearances outside the Tinker Bell films), albeit minus the visible cleavage.
**On that topic, the fairies' outfits from the film would later be carried over to the start of the TV special The Pixie Hollow Games.
**Tink would eventually revert back to her original 1953 outfit in the next film Secret of the Wings.
*Early on in development, the crew interviewed 6- to 9-year-old girls. In response to the question "What would you do if you caught a fairy?", they all said, "Tea party." This inspired a scene of Lizzy having a tea party with Tink, which was ultimately deleted from the final film.
*In the original trailer, Lizzy was presented in a more antagonistic way, in that she traps Tinker Bell in a jar, as well as being the one who wants to sell her to a museum, a trait that would later be given to her father. This change was probably made because from the beginning there was the concept that Lizzy was a little girl, so it seemed that this dark behavior was too cruel, that's why it was decided that instead of being a villain, Lizzy was one more character pleasant and that his interactions with Tink were absolutely peaceful.
*This film notably reveals that while Tink and the Never Fairies are all capable of speaking like regular humans, however their dialogue couldn't be understood by regular humans as to humans the fairies' dialogue ends up being translated as jingling sounds, therefore resulting Tinker Bell to resort to using pantomime to communicate to them. This explains why, outside the Tinker Bell films, Tink does not speak but instead communicates via pantomime and her jingling sounds when within the presence of humans.
*The opening scene was originally Lizzy's Dad meeting a fairy from afar for the first time, rather than Lizzy.
*This is the first Tinker Bell film to introduce Rosetta's mysophobia (fear of dirt) which defines her character and becomes a running gag in subsequent entries of the franchise.
**This is also the first Tinker Bell film to introduce the Pixie Hollow fairies' common shared weakness of wet wings (usually from bad rainy weather) preventing them from flying, which is also carried over in subsequent entries of the franchise, most notably in The Pirate Fairy.
*This is the last Disney Fairies film where Rosetta is voiced by Kristin Chenoweth.
*This is one of two Tinker Bell films, alongside the first film, where the soloist also provides the narration.
== Continuity Mistakes ==
* It's night time when Lizzy and all the fairies leave to fly to London. However, when Lizzy flies above the clouds to get out of the rain, it's suddenly daylight again. As she descends down into London, it's back to night time. Also, the storm has past as she catches up to her father, and all the stars are out.
* There is quite an inconsistency between the idea that, as shown in Return to Never Land, Jane's disbelief in fairies hurts Tink's feelings so badly that it causes Tink to die, in contrast to this film where Dr. Griffiths' blatant disbelief in fairies isn't at all fatal to Tink, as while it hurts Tink's feelings, Tink is still able to angrily retaliate against him.
**This could mean that a child's disbelief in fairies is what causes harm or that someone can only kill the fairy they, or their relative, created.
== International distribution ==
Television: 
*UK: Disney Cinemagic (January 23, 2011), Channel 5 (August 12, 2012)
==Reception ==
In Irish cinemas, on its opening weekend the film ranked at number #10, behind Toy Story 3, Knight and Day, Inception, Step Up 3D, The A-Team, The Last Airbender, The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore, and The Karate Kid, and grossed €30,174 in its first week.
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