In this cleverly sculpted, surprisingly adult-friendly kids’ film, the hulking, muscled mass of Dwayne Johnson (Scorpion King, Welcome to the Jungle) is cast as a violent, over-the-hill hockey player who is made to pay for his tooth-breaking ways on the rink by becoming a tooth fairy.

It’s one of those reliable old cast-against-type comic turns that sends the character on a funny, predictable journey of sobering revelation.

The big delight here is that Johnson’s comic foil is Stephen Merchant, best known as the comedy partner of Ricky Gervais (Extras, The Office), who plays his scene-stealing, wingless fairy case worker.

It’s a marvellously incongruous comic pairing that relishes having Merchant verbally smacking down a man three times his size.

Also along for the ride are Julie Andrews as the Fairy administrator and Ashley Judd as Johnson’s wife, who lends the domestic scenes just the right amount of dramatic heft to make the comedy meaningful.

Billy Crystal pops up in a memorable cameo as a wise-cracking fairy storeman, and Seth MacFarlane (the creator of Family Guy) chimes in as the fairy equivalent of a drug dealer.

Having moved from professional wrestling to action films, Johnson (formerly known as ”The Rock”) has successfully rebranded himself as a highly likeable family film star.

Anybody who enjoyed him in Disney’s Race to Witch Mountain, and especially The Game Plan, will find more reasons to warm to his smiling screen presence.

credits: TrailerParkCentral | TheAge | Yahoo! Movies Singapore

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Singapore Date: 21st January 2010 Language: English Running Time: 102 mins Rating: PG Genre: Comedy Tagline: The tooth hurts. Starring: Renee Zellweger, Julie Andrews, Ashley Judd, Dwayne Johnson, Hiroshi Nishitani Directed by: Cate Blanchett, Michael Lembeck Company: Blumhouse Productions Singapore Distributor: 20th Century Fox iZone Rating: 6/10 Official Website : Tooth Fairy

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