![]() ![]() ![]() I’m not sure I wanted to see Larry the Cable guy in tutu on High Definition Blu-ray. I was sent the DVD to review, but maybe that’s just as well. For everyone else, it’s going to be a long night. That’s the audience for a film like this. And she liked a baby “guard pig” that was chained up in a yard and used by Larry to make his quota. She liked the fact that the powerful person in this film was a girl her age. She liked the way the Tooth Fairy turned all of Larry’s stuff pink and made him wear a pink tutu or overalls when he worked. My son tried to fight the impulse to ridicule the movie throughout, tossing out jokes that were far funnier than the film itself, while my daughter (just past the cusp of belief) liked the movie. I laughed once, and my wife laughed at another spot. How else is he going to try to win her back?įor a comedy-even a dumb one like this, with its cardboard side plots-there are precious few laughs, and that’s probably a greater sin than the problems with logic. Uh, background check? And why would she ask a mechanic who’s never seemed all that bright to help her “save” the school when she runs into financial trouble? Why not ask her successful businessman of a fiancé? Oh, right. ![]() Of course, anyone who’s ever dated also will wonder how in the world a self-centered man-child goofball like Larry ended up with a normal attractive woman like Brooke (Erin Beute) in the first place, and why, a year later when she’s engaged to a guy who’s running for mayor and owns a car dealership (David Mackey), she’d still include Larry in her life by allowing him to serve as an assistant at her after-school program for kids. How’d he find the place? How’d he do it without magic? And why did the writers and director Alex Zamm think they could get away with it? It’s also problematic that while he gets zapped at will to some stark location where the head Tooth Fairy (Brady Reiter) gives him all his instructions and then zaps him back to his world again, Larry inexplicably shows up there later in the film, all on his own. Heck, if I tried to leave my house looking like that, it would take all of five minutes before the cops stopped me. Larry gets a bag of magic dust but no magical way to get to the pillow, leaving him to hop in the shiny Camaro convertible he won and drive all over town in that winged get-up. There are other problems too, in addition to the fact that everyone in this Central Florida town leaves the front door and all the windows unlocked. Do you know how many parents there are in the world who, when asked point-blank by their older child if the Tooth Fairy is real or not, give it to them straight? By the logic of this film, then, most of the population would be serving time in pink tutu and wings. Let’s deal with the main problem first: the premise. A guy ruins the magic of believing in the Tooth Fairy for a youngster, and the next thing you know he’s sentenced to do time as one of the regional fairies to make amends. The plot is essentially the same as the first no-bite comedy. A little more magic-and fewer distractions, as when the Cable Guy sneaks behind a couch to watch football over the shoulders of a husband and wife and grab some of their popcorn-would have made it seem less like a home invasion. ![]() Seeing Allen in full Santa make-up putting presents under a family’s tree was one thing, but it’s more than a little creepy to see a guy in pink tutu or overalls sneaking up the stairs or through a window into a little girl’s bedroom. While Larry the Cable guy has wings, they don’t enable him to fly, and he has to enter the houses like a burglar through unlocked doors and windows. While the ho-ho comedy featured Tim Allen turned into Santa after he accidentally “killed” him and had to take his place-complete with physical changes and the magic that enabled him to squeeze down chimneys-this so-so sequel attempts the same thing, but without the full magic. It’s another high-concept transformation film-“The Santa Clause” without the charm and the solid writing. Parents will think “Tooth Fairy 2” a yawner, and worse: a creeper. This one is aimed at kids who still believe in the Tooth Fairy or are on the cusp of belief. ![]()
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