Toon Talk: Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue
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by Kirby C. Holt
TINKER BELL AND THE GREAT FAIRY RESCUE
Disney DVD and Blu-Ray
MPAA Rating: G
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That Touch of Tink
Returning for her third direct-to-video movie with Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue (available this week on Disney DVD and Blu-ray), everyone�s favorite pixie comes face to face with her first human being � and it�s not Peter Pan.
Continuing with the various season-themed plots of its predecessors, Great Fairy Rescue finds our heroine (once again voiced by Mae Whitman) attending �Summer Fairy Camp� on the �mainland� (England, circa 1920s). Alas, the close proximity of humans and all their various gadgets and gizmos proves too much for a certain tinker fairy. With the haughty speed fairy Vidia (Pamela Adlon) in protesting pursuit, Tink risks breaking the cardinal fairy rule (�don�t be seen by humans�) and sets out to check out a neighboring home.
The residents of said home are Dr. Griffiths (Michael Sheen, of The Queen and Frost/Nixon fame), a preoccupied entomologist, and his young daughter Lizzy (Lauren Mote), a curious, imaginative child crazy about (naturally) fairies. Soon after arriving at their summer home, Lizzy puts out a homemade �fairy house� to lure them to her and, before you can say �Faith, trust and pixie dust�, she�s captured Tinker Bell.
Despite being locked in a birdcage and menaced by a pudgy cat, Tink quickly discovers that Lizzy just wants to learn more about fairy folk like her. And, since she can�t fly home due to a nasty storm outside, Tink decides to stick around and teach her a thing or two about fairies (including a flying lesson), even if they do have to overcome a certain language barrier.
Meanwhile, Vidia has returned to camp and told all the other fairies -- Rosetta (Kristin Chenoweth), Silvermist (Lucy Liu), Iridessa (Raven-Symone), Fawn (Angela Bartys), Clank (Jeff Bennett) and Bobble (Rob Paulsen) -- that they have to save Tinker Bell from the humans, and thus the �Great Fairy Rescue� of the title begins.