When Were You Born Again Fairly Oddparents
The bad, the sad, and the unfortunate
When news almost a live-action movie of the Nickelodeon cartoon The Fairly Oddparents started circulating final year I knew it was going to be loathsome. Several months after I tin can now land for a fact that it was. A Fairly Odd Movie: Abound Up Timmy Turner! takes everything that made the television receiver evidence special and ruins it. The best thing about the testify was it wasn't cocky, and knew it was a cartoon. This time, I think it still believes it is a drawing, when really, information technology'due south a messy live-action special.
I tin only think of Diary of a Wimpy Kid when I think of this flick. A not bad line of books ruined by two overly childish and poorly made films. If something is animated, why do y'all strength information technology into the existent globe? Cartoons in the real world aren't funny. They're awkwardly made, out of place, and when you come across a man-child running around town and still in the fifth grade in the existent world, information technology just isn't funny at all.
Why A Fairly Odd Motion picture wasn't animated is likely because a "Live-action Fairly Oddparents movie" looks practiced on advertisements. I tin can't lie, it presents a groovy gimmick. But its execution simply doesn't work and volition never piece of work. The actors, with the exceptions of Mark Gibbon and Daran Norris, are but off-white to mediocre. Daran Norris'southward role every bit Timmy'southward dad was great, considering he voices him. They couldn't get Tara Strong to play Timmy because...she's a girl. Mark Gibbon, much to my surprise, didn't voice Jorgen Von Strangle in the show. He sounded a lot like him and looked great in live activeness.
Those are just minor perks to an appalling special. Correct off the bat, the use of CGI on Cosmo, Wanda, and Poof is lame. Fifty-fifty their live action counterparts played past Jason Alexander and Cheryl Hines aren't at all funny. Even the brief shot of a CGI rabbit grinning is near the extent of childish humor this special focuses on.
The story is Timmy Turner (Bell), now xx-three, (which is already awkward since the prove has focused on him being ten for every episode, now I guess he hit an precipitous growth-spurt) still has his fairy godparents and is still in the 5th grade. None of this seems strange though even though it looks nothing only odd in live-activity. Now in a cartoon, where this belongs, it would await perfectly normal.
Timmy Turner has been threatened by the head-fairy Jorgen Von Strangle (Gibbon) repeatedly to "grow up" and get rid of his godparents. This can only happen if he falls in love and has his beginning kiss. Timmy's former classmate Tootie (Monet) returns to town sporting more of a model paradigm and now Timmy is head of heels in what he thinks love, when in reality it'south a instance of strong lust. Cosmo and Wanda fear that Tootie'south return could put an end to their fairy duties with Timmy.
On top of that, Tootie has just stepped off what seems to exist the Green Political party train and has get a raging environmental activist. An idiot real-estate representative named Hugh J. Magnate, Jr. (Weber) plans to go rid of the Dogwood tree in Dimmsdale's park much to Tootie's dismay. On top of that, Hugh joins forces with Timmy's fair-crazed teacher Denzel Crocker (Lewis) to kidnap Timmy'south fairies.
It's chaos at all-time. Denzel Crocker, who I wasn't very fond of in the testify, is horrifying in the film. Not because of his geeky looks, I can accept that. Just the stuttering and emphasis on "fairy godparents" doesn't practice justice in live-action. Also, the grapheme Hugh J. Magnate Jr. raises a lot of questions. If this guy is virtually equally crazy as can be, how is he a real-estate rep? Oh, and the babysitter Vicky? Permit's simply say, her alive-action handling is worse than I could've e'er imagined.
It seems the idea for a live-action motion picture like this would've looked better on paper than actually on moving-picture show. And it seems like they tried to give various characters appearances in the pic to either showcase their existent-world clones or only give the story a lot of people. However, looking alike isn't the main thing that goes incorrect. It'southward everything. Everyone here, with the exceptions of Drake Bell and Daniella Monet, is overacting and on some sort of indescribable sugar rush.
If this bear witness continues, information technology will be strange because like The Spongebob Squarepants Movie, if you're going to brand severe changes to the drawing in a movie or a special, keep them throughout the course of the show. The Spongebob Squarepants Movie was planned to exist the series finale, just continued anyway. When the testify continued, it left so much out from the pic it was similar the movie never even existed. If The Fairly Oddparents continues, I doubt information technology volition pick up where the movie left off. I presume Timmy will be ten in the show once more, and this movie will exist the end of the serial they couldn't look to get out to the public.
I did bear witness a little bit of emotion during the concluding scenes considering I really do enjoy this show. It's a fun and inventive cartoon. Maybe I would've shown a little bit more than emotion if the movie stuck to its original roots and not think beingness live-action is a good way to showcase a drawing's major turning indicate. What I'chiliad saying is, if this movie stuck to its original formula, and non have gotten cocky, the movie would've been much more entertaining.
Staring: Drake Bell, Daniella Monet, Jason Alexander, Cheryl Hines, Mark Gibbon, and Daran Norris. Directed by: Fell Steve Holland.
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not even 101 wishes could save this one
What a shame. Even the Cartoon was pretty cheesy. Then they thought they could have improved the Fairy Odd Parents with a live action movie?
Oh I think not...
I don't know why they thought this would be a skillful Idea. The movie was worse than cheesy, cringe and hash put together.
What can be learned? Fairy Odd Parents actually does suck as a cartoon and a live action product.
Verdict: This movie sucked.
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Hopeless
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"The Fairly OddParents" is a crappy cartoon and it shouldn't ever have a live-activeness accommodation. For some reason, the producers of this movie thought that it would be amusing to see a twenty-three-twelvemonth-erstwhile human being interim as a x-year-former kid. Personally, I establish that to be both creepy and depressing.
Like near of the live-action adaptations of cartoons, this has a very ugly and unappealing visual style, with terrible CGI that doesn't combine well with the real activeness and actors dressed similar cosplayers from a fan-made picture.
The plot seem more than similar something borrowed from a fanfic, and information technology doesn't fifty-fifty make sense with the residue of the series (I know that "The Fairly OddParents" never cared that much almost stuff like continuity and consistency with its own canon, but the ending of this movie is only ridiculous)
What is the bespeak of making alive-activity versions of cartoons anyhow? Those movies are ugly, abrasive and poorly made. If I were a fan of "The Fairly OddParents", what I would similar to see is one animated movie from that show, instead of seeing Drake Bell doing a lame cosplay version of that series.
The alive-action movie versions of cartoons simply tin can't imitate their animated counterparts: Terrible films such equally "Garfield", "Scooby Doo", "Alvin and the Chimpunks" and this one are enough proof of that.
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Perhaps this cartoon doesn't lend itself well to alive action
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And then why exactly was this live activeness? Actually for gimmicks sake, only I imagine it was a successful gimmick, and one that peaked many viewers' interests (including myself). So basically what we have is a live action version of a cartoon show that doesn't particularly lend itself to live action, with a plot that zips along at about an hour, with no real time to build up anything that feels cinematic. Basically, this feels similar a longer, live action episode of the show (though it would have to take place long afterwards the serial), that probably would accept been meliorate as a cartoon.
Timmy Turner (Drake Bong) is 23, nonetheless in the fifth grade, and all the same living with his parents so he tin proceed his fairy godparents Cosmo and Wanda. At a public event to destroy the boondocks park, he sees Tootie (Daniella Monet) who has at present become an activist, and he begins to fall in love with her. Cosmo and Wanda can't let this happen, because he will lose them, while meanwhile an oil tycoon Hugh Magnate (Steven Weber) and Timmy's crazy teacher Mr. Crocker (David Lewis) hatch a scheme to steal Timmy'southward godparents.
The performances are fine, if not a piddling corny. Drake Bell is actually hamming it up with his overly enthusiastic acting job, just for a 23 year old human being-kid this seems quite tame compared to Pee-Wee Herman or Madtv's Stewart, and so it could be way goofier. Daniella Monet plays Tootie and she gives an okay performance, about what you'd wait from Nickelodeon. Mark Gibbon plays Jorgen von Strangle quite well, and sounds a lot similar him from the animated show. Daran Norris who plays Cosmo and Mr. Turner on the cartoon show, also played both of them here, and was actually quite funny and sort of deranged looking as Timmy's dad. Everybody is over the superlative, every bit this is a alive action cartoon, and there'southward no drama at all, but whatever, it's not really a movie, simply a goofy extended finale (?) to the series.
Nothing actually stands out as being particularly good here. The plot plods along very chop-chop, bold nosotros all know the characters already, as most watching should. The ending is forced, and corny, and kind of baroque in how fast Timmy and Tootie'due south relationship has progressed and then chop-chop, but any, it had a squeamish message. Jason Alexander and Cheryl Hines prove upwardly for some reason every bit Cosmo and Wanda when they have the form of human beings to destroy Timmy's engagement, and in that location's no reason whatever for them, except for some celebrity cameos, and over again, they're fine in the roles, but pointless.
Everything here moves along as quick as it possibly can, and while it's pretty entertaining is a very stupid way, information technology'south also not actually cinematic, and many of the plot points are retread from other episodes, simply it's basically what one would expect when they heard about a made for Television receiver alive action Fairly Oddparents movie. Not a lot of laughs, many of the jokes autumn flat because these cartoony gags don't really work too well in alive action, especially live action filmed as safe and sit down-commy as this, but at the aforementioned time it's not boring, the colors are brilliant, and the story moves along thanks to light-headed (not a bad thing) performances and a short running time. And if you love the ending to Back to the Time to come parts 1 or 3, and have longed for the Fairly Oddparents to homage it, then your wait is over. Expect goofy entertaining mediocrity, and you lot will probably enjoy this to some degree.
My rating: ** out of ****. 60 mins. Non rated, contains some "poopy" sense of humour.
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No
This movie is really really bad. There is no reason why anyone should spotter information technology. That is all.
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A actually wonderful alive-action adaptation if you look the story's flaws
I grew up watching the cartoon show and was expecting a alive-action motion-picture show released in theaters, but instead information technology was released on Telly and boy was I excited and I saw it last night when it premiered. I know it wasn't Toy Story 3, but information technology had the same bulletin near growing up. Here's my opinion. The storyline had a few problems and the dialogue was kind of pathetic, merely the moments in this picture were really faithful since they had the same actors from the TV show (except Tara Strong for obvious reasons) and information technology was great to see the alive-action Timmy and the remainder of the characters. The acting was solid, the music was a lot of fun, and the action scenes were very good.
A Adequately Odd Movie: Grow Up Timmy Turner isn't my favorite TV picture show, but it is a very adept one and it's definitely worth seeing.
vii/10
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Not as bad as you might think. Daniella Monet made it worth watching.
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***RELUCTANT SPOILERS***
Just before the third "Jimmy-Timmy Power Hour" crossover TV-flick, Butch Hartman claimed he was running out of ideas for The Adequately Odd-Parents. However it seems that just when he thinks he can become out, either Nickelodeon keeps pulling him back in, or another idea for the cartoon that fabricated him famous forms in his head. Either way, like a lot of other people, I expected this to be Nickelodeon's "Howard the Duck." Jennifer Stone already appeared in ii bad remakes in disguise. We can but hope Daniella Monet doesn't commencement making the same mistakes.
Timmy Turner is now 23 years old, and refuses to grow upwards and make a life for himself in club to go along his fairy godparents, Cosmo, Wanda, and Poof, all of which are in CGI, and voiced past the same cast who provided their voices since the days when it was a hand-fatigued "Oh Yes, Cartoons" segment. His parents are anxious for him to move out, and his teacher Denzel Crocker is still convinced that the reason he'southward however in elementary school is because of his fairy godparents. Chester and AJ often announced on the sidelines watching Timmy'south antics, and bragging virtually the benefits of being more but a legal adult. Vicky now runs a twenty-four hour period care center and treats kids with the same lack of TLC she did when she was a teenager. Considering Timmy never roughshod in love, except with the noticeably absent Trixie Tang, he has never been in danger of losing the two and later three who have been saving his barrel from the misery of babyhood and adolescence since he was ten years one-time. But suddenly while watching a ceremony for the groundbreaking of a combined hotel/oil well(yeah, that'd bring in customers), along comes this gorgeous brunette who strolls over and tries to stop Hugh J. Magnate(Steven Weber), the man who wants to build it. That brunette turns out to be none other than Tootie, the geeky sister of Vicky who had a mad crush on him when they were little kids. The ugly ducking evolving into a beautiful swan routine has been done to expiry, merely Daniella is such a turn-on as grown upward Tootie, you won't care. Also that she wasn't even ugly playing as the Tootie of Timmy's memories.
Needless to say, he makes wishes to help Tootie to end them, and now his fairy godparents are scared because he's falling in love with her, and spend much of the movie trying to end him. He knows this besides, but he's not as concerned as they are, until they're almost to buss. Timmy's 23 and he'south afraid to kiss this dazzler? Hell, if I were 23, I'd non only kiss her, I'd wrap my arms around her, run my fingers through her hair, and exercise things to her that fifty-fifty Cartoon Network's Adult Swim fourth dimension-slot wouldn't show! Meanwhile Mr. Crocker sets up a coming together with the tycoon who wanted to build that hotel, and reveals the existence of Timmy's Fairy Godparents. Anyone else would blow him off as the nut case he truly is and send him to the booby hatch, just the tycoon decides to team up with him to finish Timmy and Tootie. I'k going to say this, and I don't care if I get tons of hate mail service in my IMDb box; David Lewis made an excellent Denzel Crocker. Daran Norris, who voiced both Cosmo and Timmy'south dad was also an first-class choice to play equally his dad in live-action.
Despite the fact that it has a scene that puts Tootie in peril, it's not as Wagnerian equally fabricated-for-TV moving picture versions of FOP, most notably "Abra-Catastrophe" and "Channel Chasers." Whatever else you may say nearly it, you have to requite them some credit for staying true to the spirit of the cartoon, correct down to the prop department. Live-action Dimmsdale is as loaded with 1950's and 1960's era cars and trucks as the original drawing was, although it would've been nice to see a alive-action version of Mr. & Mrs. Turner's mid-1960'southward Ford Country Squire station wagon. There's also a scene where Chester and AJ are given some supposedly hot girlfriends(twins, in fact), and turn to the camera and ask if nosotros're jealous. Not of yous two. Of Timmy? Definitely!
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A good example of great cartoons that failed as live-action movies
The 10-yr-old Timmy Turner that we all know and grew upward with is at present 23! And surprise, surprise, he still has Cosmo, Wanda (and surprisingly!) and Poof, by his side. Timmy is however in 5th course and spends his free time making fun wishes for himself. Life couldn't be happier. But what happens when Timmy starts falling in love? Could that mean saying goodbye to his fairy godparents?
I grew upwardly watching "The Fairly Odd Parents" and I was adequately excited when I heard a film was going to exist released! However, I was disappointed. I should take expected it, though. When has a drawing-made-live-action ever worked?
This TV movie was a Goggle box moving-picture show. The quality of the plot was very very subpar. Drake Bong was just average (or even below) equally he played Timmy Turner. I was actually saddened. I wish I could get my 57 minutes back. I likewise wish they made the motion picture animated.
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Beautiful, funny, live-activeness rendition of a modern cartoon archetype!
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This is a kids' moving picture, to say the least, merely since I'm a kid at center, I enjoyed every minute of information technology. I wonder what people await from a drawing-turned live-action motion picture anyhow...well, judging from all the negative reviews, I'd say a lot. And might I also say: get a grip! Information technology's a cartoon...turned into a live-activeness movie. Information technology'due south supposed to exist giddy, goofy, and over-the-top. It's based on a car-toon. It'southward not rocket surgery.
I accept loved the Adequately Oddparents since they started coming on Nickelodeon many, many years ago. I like Drake Bell, and I beloved Daniella Monet...a lot. She'due south e'er been a really cute, pleasant actress to spotter, and now that's she's an adult, she has turned into a stellar beauty with lots of interim potential. I fifty-fifty watch a guilty pleasure (Victorious) with her in it, and the entire cast of that prove is only a fun bunch to lookout man.
This flick has all the "classic" characters, with Vicky being the but exception that I didn't really intendance for. It'south a tried-again standard plot of the drawing serial, and then nothing new there, and the ending is a niggling forced and over-the-summit (even for this pic), merely I notwithstanding watched the entire thing, commencement to cease, never got bored, and fifty-fifty chuckled a few times. It was fun, and Mr Crocker actually stole the evidence. I was actually hoping he'd be the chief bad guy, but nil doing. I guess the writers/directors/producers didn't want to become that far downward Timmy Turner Lane at this point in the series.
Daniella Monet is an absolute beauty, and I hope she doesn't do annihilation empty-headed similar resorting to plastic surgery to fix her (a tad childish) cheeks. She'll grow out of them if she tin just wait. And those boots she wore: red vinyl become-go boots, very reminiscent of the ones Mary Horowitz wears in the movie All About Steve. I wonder if maybe the wardrobe/costume designers were related somehow...
Enjoy it for what it is: good, make clean fun. If you liked the cartoon series, I don't see any reason why this won't entertain you as well for a little over an hour. It's a worthy addition to the franchise, I'thousand sad to run across it get. I think everyone did a good job with it and look forward to watching it once again in the about time to come.
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An Absolute Joke
This movie is then bad that it left me speechless when it was over. All I keep asking myself was WHY WHY WHY? Some films are and so bad that all you tin do is laugh. "A Fairly Odd Movie" is non i of them. I just stared in utter horror the entire way through. Everything virtually this movie was incorrect: making it alive action, Timmy's casting, the script...everything. How they got Jason Alexander to sign on I'll never know.
Most of all, this heaping pile of poop is a disgrace to "The Adequately Odd Parents".
"A Fairly Odd Pic" was just so unnecessary. The moron who green-lighted it needs to be fired. Nickelodeon should be ashamed.
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A fun catastrophe to the series, albeit somewhat flawed
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As a longtime fan of The Fairly OddParents, I was excited to encounter the advertisements for this movie which would end the series (though there ever seem to be means around this).
On the whole, the moving-picture show was a worthwhile finale and general tribute to the cartoon. I was entertained the whole way through. That being said, still, there were some very specific points that irked me. I have taken the liberty of arranging them into a top-five list for you lot.
5) A point is made in this movie near Poof'south starting time words. Nevertheless this was (to my recollection) never a running gag in the series. A much more interesting idea would've been to finally reveal Mr. and Mrs. Turner's offset names which had been a constant teasing gag for years in the cartoon. Additionally, when Poof does say his first words, he is speaking similar a 30-yr-old thug. Does that non feel like a gag that would be more than at dwelling in a stupid 90'southward picture?
4) At one signal, Cosmo and Wanda pose as normal human adults. However, they are portrayed by entirely different actors. While I am ever entertained by Jason Alexander, these portrayals of the couple felt like pale imitations. Furthermore, this is nothing like an earlier fourth dimension they had washed this same affair. In that episode, they simply grew taller and their wands, wings, and floaty-crowny things disappeared.
three) I bought all of the characters equally either but the live-action version of their cartoon counterparts or the original grapheme just 13 years later, except Vicky. Cartoon Vicky seemed to pulsate with pure, unadulterated evil. Live-activity Vicky seemed more than similar a more often than not sugariness girl going every bit the Wicked Witch of the West for Halloween. Additionally (and this is more of a nitpick) but did you ever notice that Vicky'southward breasts were unnaturally pointy in the cartoon? Well, those go carried over hither. Why? None of the other ridiculous physical traits become transferred. Jorgen's mentum isn't a foot long, Timmy doesn't have huge buck-teeth, and Crocker has only a slight hunch and his ears are on his caput rather than his neck. Why should this of all things make it through?
2) Mr. Crocker is, as always, a please. However, he is almost entirely overshadowed past new villain Hugh J. Magnate, Jr., a corporate tycoon who wants to build a hotel/oil rig in Dimmsdale. In my stance, this fails in several ways. For ane, Magnate is a very stereotypical villain. Mind yous, in watching a alive-activeness drawing, I'm non expecting The Godfather, only Fairly OddParents would at least accept original characters who may or may not have had much depth. Plus, much like Poof talking, this is something that would exist more at dwelling in a stupid 90'due south picture show. Furthermore, Crocker was style too entertaining, memorable, and interesting character to go the shaft past a guy created for the movie. In fact, nothing in their scheme that Magnate did couldn't have been done by Crocker. Now it could be argued that nosotros've already seen what Crocker does with magic (Jimmy-Timmy Ability Hour 1, Abra-Catastrophe) then if he had been in on this by himself nosotros'd merely exist retreading one-time territory. That'due south fair, which brings me to my next betoken: Crocker was never intended to exist Timmy'south archenemy; Vicky was. She was the reason he got fairy godparents, so information technology would've been some very overnice irony if she was the i responsible for him losing them. Not to mention the fact that she is, in fact, Tootie'due south sister, which goes unmentioned.
1) Timmy accepts responsibleness, grows upwardly, and gives up his fairy godparents. The series gets the resolution that we all knew was coming and Timmy goes through some very nice character development. All is right...until Jorgen shows up and declares that Timmy is at present exempt from losing his fairy godparents. Bullcrap! While it is explained that this is in reward for all the times he saved Fairy World (which makes sense), this was never foreshadowed and Jorgen really spent the entire movie up until that point trying to ensure that Timmy did grow up and lose Cosmo and Wanda. Plus, this creates some notable bug with the other time nosotros'd seen Timmy'southward future: Channel Chasers. In the end of that film, nosotros meet Timmy every bit a thirty-year-old man (a mere seven years after this), married, with two children, and having forgotten all about his fairy godparents (save for some residual memories) who are now assigned to his children. While non necessarily a contradiction, information technology certainly appears that whoever wrote this installment neglected to research established parts of the prove's history. Finally, this raises significant issues for Timmy'south evolution considering it undercuts his accepting of the fact that he has to give them up. Mind you, he withal does grow as a person, promising to only make unselfish wishes, falling in dearest, and beingness a responsible fellow member of guild, but this does make me question how much the writers actually cared about such things.
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Very enjoyable
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I actually but heard about this live-activeness film maybe ii or 3 days ago, and and then managed to catch it on TV the side by side day right before it started. I was pretty skeptical of how information technology would turn out since turning a cartoon into a alive-action motion picture is incredibly risky and simply wouldn't be the same, but since I had enjoyed the testify so much back in middle schoolhouse (I'g in college now) I though I'd requite it a shot.
Y'all never really realize just how WEIRD cartoons are until you see what it would be like in real life. Pirate ships crashing through your bedroom and people moving at remarkably fast speeds (lol!) merely I but plant it to exist SO funny and enjoyable! It just brought me back to a simpler time. Information technology was very absurd to come across these animated characters come up to life. Mom and dad, Mr. Crocker, Vicky and Tootie, the mayor and Chompy the goat. Information technology was all great fun, and I was pretty impressed with how well a lot of them turned out. Casting Daran as Dad was a bang-up movement since he's the actor who voices him (along with Cosmo and Jorgan), and Mr. Crocker was but hilarious and a dead ringer for his cartoon counterpart.
The plot line was childish and seemed a scrap unusual for a alive-action motion picture, but you have to recall that this is all based off of a cartoon and it worked well for that particular prove.
All in all, I laughed a lot and it was fun to see all the characters I loved as a kid come up to life. It brought a lot of nostalgia and I'd recommend information technology to any FOP fan with a practiced sense of humor who's up for a good laugh.
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A Fairly Odd Movie
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WARNING REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS DO NOT READ IF You lot've Haven't SEEN THIS Motion-picture show! i thought this movie was gonna suck boy was i wrong it was basically a fairly oddparents cartoon but in alive activeness it had the music cartoon sound effects and everything. crocker acted similar crocker timmy acted like timmy etc. but tootys personality was wrong instead of a timmy obsessed nerd she was a hot tree hugger. the spaz outs of crocker were genius but some of the editing had flaws. but timmys parents were excellent. and the cgi was okay special effects and dark-green screen could've been better but it was still okay. and poofs first words were awesome(he didn't say awesome merely his first words were awesome). a great manner to await into the future. chester and aj were jerks though i requite this motion-picture show an eight out of 10 because of its sfx and editing flaws. im the cool critic and i review movies and TV shows that rock and suck.
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An Abomination of Television
I experience that as a once avid fan of the evidence and every bit a living breathing human being that this was the worst affair I've e'er had the misfortune of sitting through. Even if the creators had attempted to brand this watchable (which they did not), information technology would not accept mattered in the slightest, because the very premise of Grow Up Timmy Turner is incorrect. The Fairly Oddparents was NEVER meant to be alive activity, and anyone who saw The Last Airbender tin can attest to that.
And this is without even mentioning the dialogue (which is atrocious even past kid TV standards), the characters (whose attributes in no mode reflected those of the actual cartoon characters), and the complete miscasting of Drake Bell, Jason (George Costanza) Alexander, and Cheryl Hines.
Even the defense that "it's just for kids" would be invalid because Nickelodeon has created some of goggle box's best shows, shows that to this day I all the same remember fondly (Rugrats, SpongeBob, Rocket Ability, Doug, Hey Arnold, and Even Adequately Oddparents!). Every person involved with this product should be ashamed of themselves for not only creating such dreck just for insulting the intelligence of every viewer ages 0 and upwards!
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Perfectly captures the style of the TV series.
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The world premiere of Nickelodeon'due south new, made-for-Television set picture based on their long-running TV serial "The Fairly OddParents" aired this evening. I spent a good portion of my forenoon and afternoon watching the 10 original "The Adequately OddParents" shorts (fabricated betwixt 1998 and 2001 for Nickelodeon's "Oh Aye! Cartoons") so I could refresh my retention of the beginnings of the serial earlier seeing the end. Those original shorts, and the earliest seasons of the series (which started its first total flavour in 2001) are full of offbeat humor and larger-than-life characters. Every character, every story line is over-the-acme, but always brilliantly so.
That's why I'm happy to report the new, live-action picture show is just as over-the-top equally the earliest episodes: a at present 23-year-erstwhile Timmy Turner is still in the 5th grade, completely content to live like a child if it means he can keep his fairy god parents, Cosmo and Wanda (much to the chagrin of his parents). Unfortunately for Cosmo and Wanda, the once obnoxious Tootie has moved back to Dimmsdale as a full-grown woman. Even worse: she's captured Timmy'south attention. When an evil oil magnate teams up with Denzel Crocker to capture the fairies and harvest their magic powers for evil, Timmy has to brand the biggest decision of his eternally-youthful life: will he grow upwards and be with Tootie, or will he get out Tootie to rescue his oldest friends?
The editing and pacing of the movie are reminiscent of a typical episode from the TV serial: Mom & Dad quickly swoop into scenes to toss out some quick dialogue, and swoop out as chop-chop as they came; Denzel Crocker'southward erratic twitches when he says "FAIRY-GOD-PARENTS" are intact; Cosmo's idiocy is as smooth equally ever. Long-fourth dimension fans of the Tv series will observe a lot of little touches in the styling of the flick to appreciate it (my personal favorite: an advent by Chompy the Caprine animal).
As a capstone to one of Nickelodeon's biggest successes, it is as good as a live-action movie based on an over-the-top, highly stylized cartoon could be. Information technology is not, however, a perfect movie. The whole affair isn't much longer than an extended episode of the Idiot box series. It only filled its 90-infinitesimal fourth dimension slot considering of the long commercial breaks. Equally a result, most of the supporting characters are simply seen briefly, and are anything but adult. Tootie, who hasn't lived in Dimmsdale for thirteen years, has somehow never gotten over her third-course trounce on Timmy. Timmy'due south feeling of repulsion toward Tootie chop-chop switches into admiration, and non also long subsequently, his Dearest-O-Meter (which Wanda checks regularly) is beeping madly. Evil babysitter Vicky appears so briefly, there's almost no point to her being in the movie beyond a one-note joke (it involves Vicky's chosen career for her adult life). Timmy'southward babyhood pals, Chester and AJ, appear only long enough to found what has become of them since elementary school, only do niggling else to support the story than give Timmy a ride because he only owns a cycle.
Then there's an consequence of inconsistency with the fairies. The Schwarzenegger-similar fairy Jorgen Von Strangle is portrayed in the flick by a homo thespian. A scene in the later on function of the moving-picture show depicts many other fairies in human form. And so why practise Cosmo and Wanda spend all only maybe five minutes of the movie as creepy reckoner-blithe versions of the series' classic two-D depictions? For that roughly v minutes of screen fourth dimension, Jason Alexander and Cheryl Hines portray full-sized human versions of the magical duo. Susanne Blakeslee and Daran Norris proceed to provide voices to the blithe Cosmo and Wanda (as they have done since the series premiered). Ignoring the fact that the animated and live-action voices of Cosmo and Wanda practice not match (a fact alluded to past Mr. Alexander and Miss Hines shortly after their outset appearance on screen), one is left with no explanation as to why these two fairies were computer-animated for the bulk of the pic, and every other fairy is seen in full-sized human form. With today's technology, it should non have been hard to digitally compress Mr. Alexander and Miss Hines and then they could float effectually Timmy during the motion picture. It would have been better if the filmmakers had fabricated the creative decision that all non-magical humans would appear normally, and all fairies would appear in CGI grade. The gag the humanized Cosmo and Wanda announced for could easily have been accomplished with a bit of magic from the CGI fairies. The fact that the humanized Cosmo and Wanda never reappear later that scene makes it all the more distracting. I should also mention that Poof (Cosmo and Wanda's son, introduced in 2008) as well appears in CGI form with his parents (he'south a pretty silent role until the end of the flick, when he opens his oral cavity and releases a surprise voice).
Fairy inconsistencies aside, the pic is definitely worth a screening for long-time fans of the serial. It's not brilliant movie-making, just it is a sweet trivial coda to the long-running serial (seen on Nickelodeon in short and series grade since 1998). I've already added the commencement flavor of the TV series to my Amazon.com shopping listing, and when this movie finds it'southward way to DVD/BD, I'll nigh likely add it to my moving picture library.
I requite "A Adequately Odd Movie: Abound Upwards, Timmy Turner!" a total of seven Magic Wands out of a possible 10: *\ *\ *\ *\ *\ *\ *\
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Are yous kidding me?
This is a joke! Absolute bullshit! The acting is pretty bad, I mean what's the point of making a crappy moving-picture show if you know people are gonna detest it! The cartoon i like but this... no. I'thousand sorry merely this is a joke. And the actors were abrasive as hell... specially Cheryle Hines and Jason Alexander equally Cosmo and Wanda. And some characters were disturbing and crappy and weren't meant for this utter file that you telephone call a motion picture. When the movie started, I sighed and yawned, and at the ending I wanted to shoot myself. And when Tootie came in I was like, "What the hell happened to Trixie?" And Jorgan was weird... so was a lot of charac-let me refrase that... ALL of the characters sucked! Utter crap. Don't watch it.
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Expert Closure, but Missing Pieces
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I was ecstatic to find out Nickelodeon created a live-activeness Adequately Odd Parents movie. And was pleased by the catastrophe considering it didn't go out any strings unattached. But it was missing a lot, too. I can't exist the only ane who was expecting Crimson Chin and even hoping for Chip Skylark to brand an appearance (especially considering the town goat was in it!). As well I think Doug Dimadome would have been perfect for the antagonist.
I grew up watching this show, but I haven't watched information technology in years until this movie just to know how it ends. Catastrophe was skillful, but I'd like to see more than characters.
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I feel like I was just slapped in the confront.
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I want to know who decided that making this picture show would be a good idea.
Like, seriously.
Now, don't go me wrong, I ordinarily beloved Drake Bell. Even so, he isn't Timmy Turner. The only person who can pull off Timmy is Tara Strong, who's vocalism work I missed during this movie. Bell but seemed more confused than anything, while Strong's work merely... fits. This was a problem shared by the unabridged cast, however, so I figure I should simply get that out of the way kickoff.
In all honesty, information technology was as bad as I thought it was going to be as soon as I saw that at that place was a live action Fairly Odd Parents movie in the works. With a 23-year-old Timmy notwithstanding in 5th grade. Yes, it gets stupider.
At that place's a reason why cartoons aren't shot in live action; gags such every bit Crocker's fairy breakdowns only don't... piece of work. And yet they tried to push it as if information technology did work, which just took away from the unabridged picture as a whole. You could meet Lewis trying to become Crocker, simply information technology just didn't work. And its non anyone's mistake, either. There are just some things you cannot exercise in live action, especially with a minor budget.
The ending was abysmal. A slap in the face.
Throughout the series when Timmy is 'forced' into giving up his fairies (almost notably in Channel Chasers, which was spit at and stomped to the ground in this movie), you can meet him at first endeavour to avoid this by interim childish and never wanting to abound up, just somewhen he does. He grows into a mature person who's willing to put aside his wants for the good of others. Remember that selfless moment nigh the stop of Abra-Catastrophe! when he sets his fairies gratuitous in order to relieve the world? Of course, he gets them back (obviously, this isn't a cartoon with much continuity at all) and reverts back to his normal, selfish cocky, but at least in the movies at that place's a sense that he has grown. Once again, I bring up Aqueduct Chasers, where he actually ended up giving up his fairies and losing his retentivity of them. It's a part of growing up that in past movies dealing with the subject - he does.
Well, this movie decided to be 'dissimilar', I gauge. While it's a happy ending that makes a trivial bit of sense (Timmy has saved Fairy World a lot), it doesn't fit in with the remainder of the series. Channel Chasers is at least believed to be canon (and Timmy getting together with Tootie at the terminate of Grow Upward Timmy Turner! fits in a fleck with the Channel Chasers ending (if visual clues are to be looked at, anyhow)), but this completely disregards information technology. All that growing up and character development he does throughout the unabridged flick is completely pointless, and he gets to keep his fairies anyway.
Cosmo and Wanda are likewise ridiculously out of graphic symbol. While Cosmo is however stupid (does anyone else recall the days when he wasn't as stupid as he was just a flake dim and gullible?), Wanda is oddly fastened to stopping Timmy from growing up (she'southward stupid, too, past the way). I tin't imagine that either of them would be happy nearly leaving him, but trying to stop him from having a family and a life beyond simple school? It's very selfish and unlike either of them. Fairy Godparents are supposed to assistance children with difficult issues - whether parents that ignore y'all or evil babysitters - and assist them abound upwards happy.
Also, Vicky is just... weird in this special. I don't know who wrote her that manner and why, simply they need to be fired. Now.
Breathy disregard for such a beloved serial should really non be tolerated by anyone. How this motion picture is and so highly rated is beyond me. The writing is bad, the jokes are bad, the characters that are unremarkably at least semi-tolerable become gratingly abrasive, and the story is stupid from get-go to terminate.
Oh, and Randy Jackson shows upward and speaks i line every bit Poof.
I still take no idea why that was such a large deal, or if it was supposed to be funny.
One out of ten stars.
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why, god, WHY?
i have never in my entire life, witnessed such a mess of a pic. i grew up watching fairly odd parents and was kinda excited when information technology was appear. but the more i knew virtually it the more unimpressed i became.
and so i really watched the picture show. what have they done to such a good franchise. everything was so terrible. the characters didn't fit at all in my opinion. the CGI was horrible. the plot was pathetic.
i've never sabbatum through an unabridged moving-picture show but so angry and sad at it. also some of the jokes were and then unessential. for example, the rabbit that laughed in the machine? that didn't fifty-fifty make sense, like come on? i think if anyone is truly proud of that flick perhaps they should re-evaluate their values and standards because i feel ashamed by just watching that film.
in determination, if you want to proceed your sanity and childhood happiness alive, stay manner WAY abroad from this terrible picture show.
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Doesn't Even Deserve One Star
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When I offset saw a pic of Drake as Timmy I thought... why? I'grand ever up for a adept-bad movie merely this just left me clueless as to why anyone would want to brand such a film equally this (the only answer I've found is to brand quick greenbacks... that's about information technology). There are so many things incorrect with this picture show and the first mistake is that it was washed alive (and not cartoon... but again... easier to flick than animate and so quick greenbacks). Characters were not themselves or as funny because it was alive activity. Usually in the show, the fairies would say something funny/brand a pun, and then magic would happen (i.east. "true cat got your tongue?" and then a tiger or a fierce true cat would randomly appear and try to get your tongue). No, having the cat appear would hateful they would have utilize special furnishings... meaning spend more money. So basically, they had to limit the gags. The only one I found true was when Crocker would freak out when he said "fairies"... only it just felt out of place (beingness live action). So they had to rely on unlike kind of gags... such as Vicki getting a pizza in her face... bird poo on Chester'due south caput... Tootie being able to practise flips... Poof's vocalisation at the end, the animated laughing evil bunny scene, ...etc. They also cut back in other obvious areas besides. Like when Cosmo and Wanda transform. Okay, yea.. that makes sense... merely their voices? Actually? I suppose I should be thankful they addressed that in the moving picture, but they didn't requite a reason. Another matter was seeing the obvious. In the show, Timmy does not clothing a jacket. Seeing pictures of him with a jacket... giving information technology to Tootie... was a expressionless giveaway that they needed the jacket for the plot to continue. Then there is the constant contradicting stuff... Like if Tootie is such a swell gymnast, then why can't she swing herself to safety at the terminate when she falls off the bridge? Why was Jorgen so determined to make Timmy loose his Godparents when at the stop he is happy that Timmy gets to keep his godparents? The biggest disappointment of all was the ending. I love happy endings but this one disappointed me. I grew up watching FOP (stopped around when Poof came), so i of my concerns was... what happens when Timmy grows up and has to say cheerio? Everyone has to grow upwards someday and movement on... but no! Not Timmy Turner! And the reasons were stupid also... 1. Because he saved Fairy World numerous times (okay... fine... makes sense...) and 2. He uses his wishes for the benefit of others. Yea... okay. Like in that location was never an episode where Timmy used a wish for himself... And I thought the reason for having godparents was likewise use wishes to make your life better? to take fun and exist a child? At that place was even an episode where Vicki was no longer a babysitter for him and he was going to loose his godparents because he was content? This motion picture just messes with the show in too many ways that I can non fit and describe all on here. Notwithstanding, yous may be one of the few who can't analyze a moving picture well (what I mean is, can't see it'due south flaws like I just described) and enjoy the movie for its humor. Salubrious. At least the moving picture full-filled one of it'due south purposes... to exist enjoyed.
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Preety nice, but only for Babies
Preety cool. 10 stars. I concord this is not the best live-activeness movie, but if You liked the TV series, and so Y'all still tin Dearest this movie. # OH, and aye, 10 stars. ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** **----------------------- BUT...... Timmy is 23 YEARS One-time, and he still acts like a 10 years old kid. # Sooooo, compared to the TV serial, of grade it's a huge gap. # And, of class, it wasn't possible to make those carton furnishings. Regarding the plot, I was pretty surprised. Oh, and those spooky goblins were not equally dainty every bit they were supposed to exist. And Crocker wasn't hunched at all. Just, YOU know, it's a kid motion picture. Regarding Tootie, Daniela Monet acted very well, and this was OK for the movie.The fairies were animated and it was pretty weird. Only hey, nosotros're talking about some cartoon converted to movie Stuff.
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In 2020, this is Bully- information technology has a charming wackiness like the anime
Never knew this existed until July 1st 2020. I'one thousand 26 years old. Used to watch the show from 2001-2004ish. This movie, for being a Nick production, is surprisingly very charming and wacky akin to the original bear witness. Sure there's some impaired kid things, but it's fabricated for kids.
Every shot looks like information technology's in a wacky drawing world. The video editing, audio mixing/editing, cgi, costume pattern, and reprise of some of the original actors are all very impressive. I wish this was a longer film.
The story feels like an opposite of The Santa Clause two (2002).
Oh and Jason Alexander??? Heck yeah.
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Luke, Aengus, and Oliver understand this cute movie
Many people misunderstand the implications of the sub narratives of this flick. While the surface growing upward narrative is not as in depth, this is just so the other themes of acceptance, metaphysics, and ideals smoothen through ever brighter. This movie is a super duper masterpiece. It fifty-fifty deserves a 11/10 I would say.
Thank you for reading my review. Thanks. Cheers.
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