Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure (Two-Disc Blu-ray/ DVD Combo)
by Klay Hall
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Actor: Angelica Huston, Jesse McCartney, Kristen Chenoweth, Mae Whitman, Raven SymoneDirector: Klay Hall
Brand: Buena Vista Home Video
Blu-ray: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language); French (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: Multiple Formats
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 76 minutes
Blu-ray Release Date: 2009-10-27
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Studio: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
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- TINKER BELL AND THE LOST TREASURE - BD (DVD MOVIE)
Blu-ray Reviews of Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure (Two-Disc Blu-ray/ DVD Combo)
Blu-ray Review: Social Engineering 101, and it's OUTSOURCED!
Summary: 2 Stars
Customer review from the Amazon Vine™ Program (What's this?)
Well, I've had just about enough of the partisan, babbling praise being afforded this latest Disney animated feature here on Amazon. OK, I get it, the movie is just peachy for your little girls. Oh, the animation is just so . . . so . . . pretty. And look at all the lessons it imparts! Believing in yourself! Working together to solve problems! Being at one with nature!
People, we all know young children are--when they want to be--lying, manipulative sociopaths, capable of the most stunning exploitation of grown, often exasperated adults in order to get their way, or to get some new ... thing. You did it. I did it. Our kids do it. The best we can do is hope that they don't get on our nerves too much, especially in public. But they do. And they will for several years. Don't you just wish you had something you could make reference to when your spawn is standing before you in a crowded department store screeching demands for some new doodad he or she doesn't really need but which he/she clutches in his or her food-encrusted hand? Well, the fine folks at Disney, in partnership with the fine folks in India who actually did most of the work on this project, have delivered a solution. Now you can look the obstinate child square in the face and say in your sweetest, most desperately sincere voice: "Sweetie, do you remember what Tinkerbell did in the movie you watched last night?" Naturally, the child will feign ignorance, and then you can pop the big one:
"She admitted she was wrong."
While in the example above your child would probably continue screeching and sticking his or her peanut-butter-and-chocolate coated fingers all over store property and making people stare at you like a bad parent, this IS the TRUE moral of the story of TINKERBELL AND THE LOST TREASURE: admit when you're wrong, little ones. Many characters admit they were wrong in this movie, either explicitly or implicitly, including the heroine, whose "feisty" tomboy temper causes here to flare (and rightly so!) at those who meddle in her projects and otherwise try to make her conform. After they misjudge, lose sight of or otherwise interfere with each other, the characters, including Tink, all come to their senses in the end and, having admitted they were at fault, have a Big Happy Disney Celebration Ending. The characters may seem sincere, but the filmmakers are facetious. This a barely workable moral for ADULTS, who are more likely to have the common sense to admit when they're wrong, but it doesn't work at all for kids, who have virtually no ability to admit guilt unless they're coerced.
There are bigger themes out there, but the Mouse House doesn't seem willing to tackle them with these DTV CGI programmers than they were with most of their animated films. At least the "flat" Disney animated films of yore and the big-budget CGI productions of Pixar have their undeniable artistry. TINKERBELL, well, it's colourful, I'll give it that. And those characters, they sure are SASSY! Of course, when nearly all of the production work is being OUTSOURCED TO INDIA because Disney no longer sees fit to employ NORTH AMERICAN ARTISTS, it's no surprise journeyman director Klay Hall (who has some decent KING OF THE HILL episodes to his credit) and writer Evan Spiliotopoulos stick favour of bland, generic social engineering found in pre-school television programming for the past 40 years. In Japan, animation industry people must chuckle at the quaintness of films like TINKERBELL, where the same age group that this film targets are catered to with animated programming that challenges and inspires without insipid condescension and "fit-this-mold" didacticism.
But back to this outsourcing thing. Nearly all of the production work on TINKERBELL was outsourced to Prana Studios, which has offices in Mumbai, India, and L.A. If you go to their website, you'll find almost no information about what projects they've actually completed, because they don't want you to know and may actually fear bad press about just how many jobs they've taken away from North American and European artists and animators. You can't even view their showreel unless you go through administration or management. I'm willing to bet that Prana is behind a LOT more non-theatrical animated programming available today than just TINKERBELL (if the above-average quality of the animation is any indication), and I have little (but some) doubt that they probably contribute to some theatrical releases already.
So if you're an art or animation student looking to get into the industry in the future, you better have another gig lined up as back-up, or ancestral roots in India or Asia, because you're about to see a lot more "American" animated television programs and DTV features--including those starring iconic American-created characters like TINKERBELL--get outsourced to India and elsewhere, leaving fewer and fewer opportunities. Yeah, I know, things are tough all over, but come on, Animation too? How long before it's ALL done overseas?
(By the way, don't bother checking out the IMDB listing for this film to see if there's really as many Indian production people on this film as I'm claiming. The IMDB credits are staggeringly incomplete, probably on purpose. WATCH THE CREDITS ON THE DISCS THEMSELVES. They run over SEVEN MINUTES of the film's 81-minute length and OVER HALF the names are production staff in India.)
Among the utter fluff called extras on this release is a feature devoted to deleted scenes, all of which are little more than animatics or consecutive drawings. Director Hall and producer Sean Lurie introduce these clips in a Pixie Hollow-themed room they claim was set up to help the animators and themselves find inspiration. I call bull on this one, big time. The set is just that, a SET, created specifically for the special features on this Blu-Ray/DVD combo. It's little more than three set walls adorned with exotic but entirely prefab props and a sofa. It's NOT the kind of inspiration room animators would actually find any kind of inspiration in. Such rooms HAVE been shown in the special features of other Disney and Pixar animated productions, and they look nothing like this.
At several points during the special features, director Hall sounds somewhat insincere about the whole production, as though he's not quite happy with the finished product or the production methods used to achieve it. Interesting.
Other special features include:
- a look at the opening of a not-that-impressive Pixie Hollow garden attraction at the Epcot Centre in Disneyworld. It's cute, but the filmmakers and artisans behind the garden try hard to convince us that a lot more planning and engineering went into it than is evident in the finished product.
- A Magical Guide To Pixie Hollow. This is basically a guided tour of Pixie Hollow, done in lo-fi Flash-style animation with voiceovers by the characters. Fairly pointless.
- Music video for "Gift of a Friend" by Demi Lovato. Very average song with weak lyrics.
You'll notice the one thing missing from the special features is any serious "behind the scenes" look at the animation process, something that often turns up on Blu-Rays and DVDs of most animated American feature films these days, even when those productions are produced with help from overseas (while still employing artisans on North American soil). Of course, to do this for TINKERBELL AND THE LOST TREASURE would require a "Backstage Disney" tour of the Prana Studios in Mumbai, something Disney apparently doesn't want you to see. I wonder why?
Well, how about the music, you might ask? The songs and especially the lyrics are subpar, harmless to the ears, granted, but very much in keeping with the kinds of material being pumped out on the company's indistinguishable television shows. And they once again manage to trot out a prefab teen star from one of those cookie cutter shows--in this case Demi Lovato of Sonny With A Chance--to croon the tres-generic theme song in a music video. The "poetry" including the verse that opens the picture, is embarrassingly amateur. One of the true highlights of the film is the full orchestral score by Joel McNeely. It's so good that one sincerely hopes that he recorded it in L.A. using local talent (regardless of ethnicity!).
So there you have it, just a little Yang to balance the abundance of upbeat Yin being heaped upon this title by other Amazon Vine users who, like me, got if for free but, unlike me, were too swayed by the short-term reactions of their children to it to be fully objective about its contents and what they mean for the industry at large.
Buy this for your kiddies. It will keep them entertained even as its hoary old lessons go in one ear and out the other. It will look phenomenal on your big screen plasma or LCD television (it sure did on mine, but not enough to blind me to what it represents). It certainly won't bore you, even while offering nothing that will fly over the heads of the target audience.
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