(2003)
written by Joe Harris, John Fasano, &
directed by Johnathan Liebesman
reviewed by Adam Armstrong
6.8.10
An
impressive new level of suck.
Kyle Walsh (Chaney Kley plays older/present day
Kyle and Joshua Anderson plays younger Kyle) loses his last baby tooth. As he is drifting off
to sleep that night he wakes to have the tooth fairy standing over him. Since
he saw the tooth fairy she has to kill him, which seems like a reasonable
course of action. However, the Tooth Fairy is afraid of the lights so he just
avoids the dark. Twelve years later, Kyle's childhood friend Caitlin (Emma Caulfield) has a little brother that is suffering the same
fate as Kyle once did. Kyle comes back to the town of
Emma Caulfield is well
known for her reoccurring roll on Joss Whedon's Buffy
the Vampire Slayer television series. Buffy had many good attributes
that made it a great show, but one thing in particular that made it stand out
was using humor to break up tension thus creating more tension. That would have
been a great concept to inject into this crappy movie. We are led along by
characters that don't seem too invested in anything that happens around them.
The basic plot is a pretty cool idea but the execution is terrible. The big
reveal at the end was lame. The original design for the Tooth Fairy would have
been better than the lame zombie knock-off thing we're left with.
At least they're not
making tons of sequels:
1 out of 5