The Tooth Fairy - 2010 * *

The tooth hurts.

This was a gastly movie. It barely raised a smile from me and the whole premise was ridiculous. Saying that I am an adult and not a little girl so maybe if I was 5 or 6 I would appreciate it more. Dwayne Johnson plays the unimaginative boyfriend of Ashley Judd who one night tells her small daughter that there is no such thing as the tooth fairy. Big Mistake.

From then on he is sentenced to a week's hard labour as a real tooth fairy by Tooth Fairy boss Julie Andrews. Stephen Merchant pops up as his personal assistant to give support whenever he needs it ( he is maybe the one good thing about the movie) and ends up having to re-evaluate his own life. Billy Crystal has a small part which brightens up the movie a bit but on the whole it's a bit of a sorry excuse for a comedy. I think really that either a film based on a topic such as this should really concentrate on being soley for children or go the other way and be a proper comedy instead of lingering somewhere in limbo where it's slightly disturbing.